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 Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Urban sketching
By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites
11/5/2008 4:34:28 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) 
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Remember to vote!
By Grace Dobush | News | Random Thoughts
11/4/2008 10:34:17 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, October 31, 2008
DIY Polaroids
Already mourning the death of Polaroid instant film? You can make your own vintage-looking shots with Poladroid, a free software program. After installation, all you have to do is drag-and-drop your photos and wait for the mini-Polaroid to pop out. (The pictures show up as a muddy brown for a minute or two before the picture comes through—cute feature!) The final products show up in your Pictures folder as JPGs. Right now, the software's only available for Macs, but a Windows version is coming soon. You can see a bunch of other people's Poladroids on Flickr. Here's one I did, with the original picture:  And the Poladroid version: 
By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites | Free Stuff | Photography
10/31/2008 4:38:43 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Israeli Photographer Dovrat Amsily-Barak
 Everyday at The Artist's Magazine we receive a cascade of mail. Readers compliment and sometimes complain; artists send queries or postcards announcing shows; publishers send review copies of books; societies and galleries send catalogues, etc. The other day, however, I received a disc of images and an accompanying artist's statement that were extraordinary. Dovrat Amsily-Barak describes her work as "staged photographs of scenes that are déja vu fantasies." Actually a mother, she portrays one in her photographs; the settings evoke the austerity of institutions like clinics, orphanages, and convents; the light is precise and penetrating, reminiscent of Vermeer’s and Chardin’s. The light is natural light, what Dovrat Amsily-Barak describes as "of the universe only." She says, "I am shedding light on the figure as an individual and illuminating the sacredness of its  doings." Photographs by Amsily-Barak;
used by permission
By Maureen Bloomfield | Notable Artists | Photography
10/31/2008 4:13:25 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Picasso, larger than life
 Who's that hanging out on Cooper Union's Foundation Building in New York's East Village? Why, it's a gigantic Picasso portrait of Stalin! The banner is part of a free exhibition by Norwegian artist Lene Berg, "Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache," which explores the personal, political, artistic and media implications of Picasso's simple drawing of Stalin. The portrait was commissioned for a French Communist newspaper, Les Lettres Francaises, to memorialize Stalin's death on the front page of the newspaper. Picasso's drawing was considered unflattering and led to his expulsion from the party. "Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache" runs through December 6. Photos above and below by Bryan Zimmerman. 
By Grace Dobush | Notable Artists | Shows and Events
10/30/2008 9:34:16 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Make art from Starbucks trash
Wired is having a contest: Create things out of all the stuff you get at Starbucks—stirrers, sugar packets, napkins, cups, chairs that aren't bolted down, anything. The example to go by is the Star Wars fighter ship (at right) that a Wired contributor created out of coffee boxes, 50 cups and 216 stirrers. Build your dream, take pictures, upload the instructions to the Create Wiki page, and your work could be featured in an online slideshow.
By Grace Dobush | Projects
10/29/2008 1:13:48 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Just 3 days left to win a CD!
We're giving away copies of The Artist's Magazine 2007 Annual CD to 10 lucky people who take our editorial survey! Anyone who takes the survey
by this Friday, October 31, will be automatically entered into the drawing.
(Due to international laws, the drawing is limited to U.S. residents
only.)
By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | News
10/28/2008 9:38:58 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, October 24, 2008
New work from Sharon Sprung
Sharon Sprung, one of our ArtistsNetwork.TV artists, sent us an image of her latest work, a portrait of a federal judge. The painting of the Honorable Judge John Keenan, US Federal Court, First District, will be unveiled at Federal Plaza in New York City next month. Stunning, as always! 
By Grace Dobush | News
10/24/2008 3:34:38 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Online art paper sale
 It's no secret that I love the bookbinding supply store Hollander's. The Ann Arbor, Michigan, shop has an astounding array of decorative and artist paper. (And I am utterly addicted to chiyogami, such as Orange, Olive, & Yellow Mountain at right.) Until Sunday, Oct. 26, you can get 10 percent off anything in the store, and an additional 5 percent off all orders over $250. (If you order more than $100 of materials, you get a $10 UPS shipping credit, too.) See all the details on the ordering page.
By Grace Dobush | Tips
10/23/2008 2:24:03 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Maria Lassnig at the Contemporary Arts Center
A show that originated at the Serpentine Gallery in London has come to Cincinnati, under the direction of Raphaela Platow, the newest head of the Contemporary Art Center. Beautifully installed, it is Maria Lassnig’s first in the USA, though she had a 1977 retrospective in Paris and has been the star of several Venice Biennales. Born in Vienna in 1919 and descending from the German Expressionist tradition, Lassnig often paints herself in ways that are both aggressively painful (with a gun aimed at her head in one hand and a gun aimed at the viewer in the other) and wryly comic (the artist with a frying pan on her head). The pictures are bold, visceral, and unrelenting. Lassnig has said she paints the body from the inside. Often her wildly colorful figures are grotesque—monstrous infants without arms or with distorted heads and mutilated torsos. Her recurrent theme is the complexity of feeling. The most recent pictures are lusciously painted and strangely lyrical. I especially loved Madonna of the Pastries, which shows the nude artist in front of an array of painterly (vaguely reminiscent of Wayne Thiebaud's) cakes.
Lassnig is a filmmaker as well as a painter. The one that was playing while I was at the gallery, Couples, is a visually delightful sequence that is playful in tone. In a wonderful filmed interview that is part of the show, Lassnig, who looks terrific, by the way, answers questions with wit and joy.
This is the work of a true artist; it is the best show that the CAC has
launched since it moved to Zaha Hadid's building, and I look forward to
more challenging shows that Platow will bring to a newly lustrous CAC.
Note: Accompanying the Lassnig show is Carlos Amorales's Discarded Spider, a vibrant and interesting exhibition and a particularly apt pairing, since his spiders recall Louise Bourgeois's. (The brilliant sculptor Bourgeois is 98 years old.) The Lassnig show will be up until January 11, 2009; the Amorales show will come down on March 7, 2009.
Photos: Tony Walsh. Top: Installation view at the Contemporary Arts Center in the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. Below: Madonna of the Pastries (2002, oil, 150x200cm) Courtesy of Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. 
By Maureen Bloomfield | Shows and Events
10/23/2008 8:55:43 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Genius theories
Pablo Picasso came onto the art scene with a bang when he was 20, with the masterpiece Evocation: The Burial of Casagemas. On the other hand, Paul Cézanne's later work is generally considered his greatest. Malcolm Gladwell (one of my favorite writers) asks in the New Yorker: Why do we associate genius with youth? Gladwell posits that it's not necessarily better to be a prodigy than a late bloomer. In fact, the way each approaches his or her craft is entirely different. It comes easier to a prodigy, perhaps, but the payoff for a late bloomer—someone who has to really work at it—can be just as great. In the article, he explores various fields, looking at the work styles of both a wunderkind and someone who paid his dues, sometimes for decades. It's really interesting reading. (And just for fun: in this episode of "This American Life", Gladwell tells a tall tale about his first job and a "perverse and often baffling" competition he and a coworker created.)
By Grace Dobush | Notable Artists | Random Thoughts
10/22/2008 9:30:38 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, October 20, 2008
Travel Channel will give you an art attack
This sounds pretty cool: "Art Attack with Lee Sandstead" takes you inside the world's greatest art museums, where the art historian singles out the top five must-see pieces in a fast-paced format. The first season will air on the Travel Channel starting Nov. 30.
You can watch a preview below that describes Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, an installation piece in the Brooklyn Museum.
By Grace Dobush | News | Notable Artists | Videos
10/20/2008 9:55:53 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Quick Link: Artist a Day
Get art delivered to you daily at Artist A Day. Every morning, the website highlights an artist's work and includes biographical information and links. You can get it delivered any way you like: Sign up for the RSS feed, iGoogle gadget or Facebook application. You can even nominate yourself.
By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites
10/17/2008 4:38:14 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Artists over 60 update
 We thought we had a lot of entries last year...
The boxes at right are just a portion of the approximately 1,500 entries we got in our call to artists over 60. (That number's just an educated guess on my part. We definitely got more than 700 e-mailed entries, and I lost track of how many envelopes we received.) It's been even harder than last year to select our finalists and winners, but we're powering through and hope to be making those congratulatory phone calls this week! You'll be able to see the winners and their art in the March 2009 issue of The Artist's Magazine!
By Grace Dobush | News
10/16/2008 9:25:37 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Survey and CD giveaway!
What do you like about The Artist's Magazine? What do you think could be better? We want to know! Let it all out in our editorial survey.
We're giving away 10 free copies of The Artist's Magazine 2007 Annual CD—a compilation of every 2007 issue of the magazine! Anyone who takes the survey by Friday, October 31, will be automatically entered into the drawing. (Due to international laws, the drawing is limited to U.S. residents only.) We'd love to hear your feedback. Click here to take the survey!
By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff
10/14/2008 9:26:18 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Are creative people more likely to get depressed?
Like members of the ArtistsNetwork Forum were talking about a few months back, CNN.com reports about the link between creativity and depression: There have been more than 20 studies that suggest an increased rate
of bipolar and depressive illnesses in highly creative people, says Kay
Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University
and author of the "An Unquiet Mind," a memoir of living with bipolar
disorder. Experts say mental illness does not necessarily cause
creativity, nor does creativity necessarily contribute to mental
illness, but a certain ruminating personality type may contribute to
both mental health issues and art.
Click here to read the whole article. What do you think?
By Grace Dobush | News | Random Thoughts
10/13/2008 1:53:03 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
The Magic Flute in pictures
If your only exposure to comics was has so far been dime-store pulp publications, it's worth taking another look at the genre. The superhero genre has expanded and evolved into the world of graphic novels—much more refined, with great attention paid to art and production values. A graphic novel that recently came across my desk was Mateki: The Magic Flute, based on the Mozart opera. (Mateki is the Japanese word for a kind of flute that's very responsive to the style of the artist playing it.) The story of a prince fighting evil forces to save a princess is full of beautiful art, as you can see in the pictures here. The details: Mateki: The Magic Flute by Yoshitaka Amano: 128 pages, $29.99. Images copyright Mateki: The Magic Flute by Yoshitaka Amano, Radical Publishing, 2008. 
By Grace Dobush | News
10/9/2008 9:51:33 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
John Ashbery's Collages
The American poet and art critic John Ashbery has a show of collages, They Knew What They Wanted, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Tibor de Nagy has had a long association with poets of the New York School; it has even published books of poems, for instance, Ashbery's Turandot and Other Poems and Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, illustrated by Larry Rivers. Some of the collages date from Ashbery’s undergraduate days at Harvard; many are brand new. One set pays homage to his friend, the inventive and mercurial artist, Joe Brainard. The show’s title refers to a 1940 movie directed by Garson Kanin from a play by Sidney Howard. Depicting a love triangle, They Knew What They Wanted starred Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton. Also on view are Trevor Winkfield’s bright acrylic pictures that present lighthearted visual rhymes. Below: Acrobats (circa 1972), a collage by John Ashbery. Photo courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Below: Chutes and Ladders (For Joe Brainard, 2008), a collage by John Ashbery. Photo courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
By Maureen Bloomfield | Shows and Events
10/7/2008 8:56:41 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Deadline for Splendid over 60 artists has passed!
Just to let you know: this year's deadline for submitting a name for our Splendid over 60 article has passed. I don't have a final number yet, but we have definitely surpassed last year's total of 600 submissions. It's been incredible going through all the art our readers sent us—we even had to bring back our screener judge from the Annual Art Competition for another round to help us out! Because of the great response, we can only contact those artists whom we want to feature in the magazine. The winners will hear from us by the end of October. Make sure to watch for the March 2009 issue to see all the great art from artists over 60!
By Grace Dobush | News
10/2/2008 9:29:47 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Jean Grastorf Online Workshops
 Here's some fantastic instruction for those of you interested in watercolor. ArtistsNetwork.TV has recently announced two new streaming video workshops featuring popular artist and instructor Jean Grastorf. In the first workshop, the artist demonstrates her signature pouring technique. In the second she uses wax resist, masking and scraping with a credit
card to create texture in an abstract painting. It's just like taking a class from Jean—in your own studio! Click here to find out
more and to watch free previews of these workshops.
By Chris McHugh | Videos
9/30/2008 5:53:22 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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