tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38169594821001440032024-02-07T06:39:01.421-08:00My Personal MuseumA place to discuss works of art and architecture from pre-history to the present. Let the creativity and opinions flow...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-33199212647655216832014-01-04T09:53:00.003-08:002014-01-04T09:53:49.906-08:00Denver Returns Works to Kenya<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sending Artworks Home, but to Whom?</div>
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The Denver Museum of Nature and Science will return 30 totems to the National Museums of Kenya, which will decide whether to search for their owners.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">“The process is often complicated, expensive and never straightforward,” said Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, the museum’s curator of anthropology. “But just because a museum is not legally required to return cultural property does not mean it lacks an ethical obligation to do so.”</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-17679080623671234482013-12-21T15:19:00.003-08:002013-12-21T15:19:47.507-08:00Tim's Vermeer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How's this for a trick? A middle-aged guy who has never picked up a paintbrush decides to replicate a masterpiece by one of the greatest artists in human history. To tell a story that unbelievable, you'd need a couple guys who have some experience with the impossible: magicians Penn & Teller.</div>
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Directed by Teller (his feature debut) and produced and narrated by Penn Jillette, the documentary "<a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/tims-vermeer/" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387667497643_1513" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">Tim's Vermeer</a>" tells the true story of Tim Jenison, an inventor who created digital editing and computer animation tools that helped revolutionize the video industry. The film shows how Jenison turned his inquisitive mind and visual expertise to unravelling a mystery that has confounded art historians for nearly 350 years: How did Johannes Vermeer, the 17th century Dutch Master, create the most realistic paintings the world had ever seen.</div>
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Definitely interested in seeing this one!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-20969753477482357252013-11-20T14:03:00.000-08:002013-11-20T14:04:48.757-08:00Leonardo's PianoNeat article with video here:<br />
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“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” </div>
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On Nov. 10, 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.</div>
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<b>"The Power of Patience: Teaching students the value of deceleration and immersive attention" </b><br />
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"I want to focus today on the slow end of this tempo spectrum, on creating opportunities for students to engage in deceleration, patience, and immersive attention. I would argue that these are the kind of practices that now most need to be actively engineered by faculty, because they simply are no longer available “in nature,” as it were. Every external pressure, social and technological, is pushing students in the other direction, toward immediacy, rapidity, and spontaneity—and against this other kind of opportunity. I want to give them the permission and the structures to slow down."<br />
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"Where patience once indicated a lack of control, now it is a form of control over the tempo of contemporary life that otherwise controls us. Patience no longer connotes disempowerment—perhaps now patience is power."<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-22968119938820091272013-08-20T14:28:00.002-07:002013-08-20T14:28:31.507-07:00Van Gogh's Starry Night from Hubble Images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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-Can read about it and see the high-res format here: <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/van-goghs-starry-night-re-created-by-astronomer-with-100-hubble-space-telescope-images.html">http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/van-goghs-starry-night-re-created-by-astronomer-with-100-hubble-space-telescope-images.html</a> </div>
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“Useless PLASTICBOX 1.2 for $99.99. Another gadget you don't really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of use.”</div>
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The manufacturer’s warranty warns that there is none “with this piece of crap.” It added: “If you are dumb enough to buy it you deserve all you get.”</div>
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The artist's website: <a href="http://www.plasticjesus.net/" target="_blank">http://www.plasticjesus.net/</a></div>
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Volunteers worked on the bridge - closed for the day to vehicle and pedestrian traffic - until nearly 10 p.m. Saturday, covering it in roughly 3,000 feet of yarn. The yarn will remain on display through the weekend of Sept. 6."</div>
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The Resorts of Dana Point will showcase dozens of colorfully
decorated life-size elephant sculptures as <a href="http://www.mydanapoint.com/elephants" target="_blank">Elephant Parade</a>®
makes its much-anticipated domestic debut after stops in London, Singapore,
Milan and Amsterdam. The open-air exhibition connects acclaimed artists and celebrities
with corporate and community leaders to attract public awareness and support
for the world’s most majestic land mammals. In anticipation of the coming of
the parade, Capistrano Unified School District held a elephant design contest.<br />
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Elephant Parade® is the world’s largest open-air exhibition of life-sized,
decorated elephant statues created by local and international artists to
generate worldwide attention, public awareness and support for the endangered
Asian elephant. To date, Elephant Parade has raised more than $5 million for
Asian elephant conservation and approximately 8 million people worldwide have
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-21998367997500239772013-08-07T16:24:00.000-07:002013-08-07T16:24:30.203-07:00Amazing Art Education Pinner!<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">This is the mother of all Pinterest users for art education pinners, Donna Staten. She has 354 boards filled with some amazing pins! About every category you can think of from projects to funny art related images, definitely worth hitting that "follow all" button!</span><br />
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Donna Staten on right (images are from the article linked below)</div>
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Review in the New York Times by Holland Cotter of the Brooklyn Museum Show "Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt." </div>
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A show at the Brooklyn Museum explores the role of cats, big and little, feral and tame, celestial and not, in ancient Egypt.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-55715958834481429352013-07-04T12:14:00.000-07:002013-07-04T12:37:32.770-07:00Robert Mapplethorpe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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It is difficult to write about such a profound and controversial artist like Robert Mapplethorpe. He took immensely beautiful photographs and ones that disturbed many people. He was even taken to court posthumously when curator Dennis Barrie and The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center were put on trial for pandering obscenity for showing images from his Portfolio X series. For more on the Mapplethorpe censorship controversy: <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/theocrat/Mapplethorpe_Chrono.html">http://www.publiceye.org/theocrat/Mapplethorpe_Chrono.html</a> </div>
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<b><u>To begin understanding and appreciating Mapplethorpe and his works, I would suggest doing 3 things:</u></b></div>
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<u>1. Look at his works and decide what you think for yourself:</u> <a href="http://www.mapplethorpe.org/">http://www.mapplethorpe.org/</a> </div>
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<u>2. There is a good documentary on Mapplethorpe and his work</u> (adult viewers) directed by Nigel Finch for the BBC in 1998 (52 min.): <a href="http://www.ubu.com/film/mapplethorpe_arena.html">http://www.ubu.com/film/mapplethorpe_arena.html</a> </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Profile of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial of American photographers, which accompanied an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in the year before he died. Contains interview with Mapplethorpe himself, along with critic and author Edmund White, and with several of Mapplethorpe's subjects.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>3. Read Patti Smith's book <i>Just Kids</i> </u>(Nov. 2010, Ecco): </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Just-Kids-Patti-Smith/dp/0060936223">http://www.amazon.com/Just-Kids-Patti-Smith/dp/0060936223</a> </div>
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<i>“Bodies of Subversion” is delicious social history. Tattooing was an upper-class social fad in Europe in the late 19th century. Winston Churchill’s mother had a tattoo of a snake eating its tail (the symbol of eternity) on her wrist. The fad spread to America. In 1897, Ms. Mifflin writes, The New York World estimated that 75 percent of American society women were tattooed, usually in places easily covered by clothing.</i></div>
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<i>Tattoos lost their appeal for nearly everyone shortly after World War II. One reason was because “tattoos perpetrated in concentration camps had added a ghastly new chapter to tattoo history.”</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b><u>There is no independent committee for hearing these cases of Nazi-looted art and possible restitution to their surviving heirs in the U.S.</u></b> There are legal committees dedicated to this process in many European countries, since it is quite a challenge to sort through the documentation, whether or not art dealers were coerced or threatened by the Nazis, and how precisely the art was obtained by the museums (provenance). <b><u>One of the problems indicated is that many art institutions in Europe are owned by the state, so they can uniformly apply the order for the designated committee to hear the cases.</u></b> Since the majority of institutions in the U.S. are privately owned, such unilateral measures could not be so easily enforced here as they are in Europe. </span></div>
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A topic I have been interested in for years, video games as art. Here is a link to the exhibition: <a href="http://www.intothepixel.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.intothepixel.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; outline: none 0px;">http://www.intothepixel.com/</a> </div>
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And here is a link to a paper I wrote and presented about the topic of video games and art about a year and a half ago (January 2012) called “Wake Up and Smell the Digital Age: Art History’s Gross Neglect of Popular Art”: <a href="http://castle.eiu.edu/ipsa/machview.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://castle.eiu.edu/ipsa/machview.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; outline: none 0px;">http://castle.eiu.edu/ipsa/machview.php</a> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-23857838174225598712013-05-28T16:47:00.000-07:002013-06-15T11:02:22.117-07:00A Jackson Pollock Restored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><u>A Pollock Restored, a Mystery Revealed</u></b></div>
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Conservators at the Museum of Modern Art have gained insights into how Jackson Pollock worked through a restoration of his “One: Number 31, 1950.”</div>
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<b><i>May inspiration and creativity be with you!</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244569129863309405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816959482100144003.post-45457669427157040362013-05-28T16:38:00.003-07:002013-06-04T16:09:23.029-07:00Phil Hansen: Embrace the ShakeThis is a truly inspirational video, we are only limited by the limitations we impose upon ourselves, amazing guy!<br />
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