San Francisco SPCA President Jan McHugh-Smith today condemned the content of a current exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute, describing it as barbaric and depraved. The exhibit, “Don’t Trust Me,” is the work of Paris-based Adel Abdessemed, and includes videos of six animals - a pig, goat, doe, ox, horse and sheep - being [...]
Custom Exhibits, Portable Tradeshow Displays and Custom Office/Museum Environments by award winning K2 Fabrication (PRWeb Mar 12, 2008)
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Nashville video production company MidSouth Visual, Inc., announces the production of Georgia’s Forgotten Gold Rush documentary for the Villa Rica Gold Museum, outside of west Atlanta. The film will be played in the museum theater, and explains Villa Rica’s 1826 gold claim and the subsequent Georgia gold rush that followed. (PRWeb Mar 14, 2008)
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KMB Asian Art of Tokyo presents a special exhibition of important Korean ceramics from Koryo to Choson Periods. The selected Korean ceramics are part of the Rai Collection of Japan, which was acquired after the War and was preserved in Tokyo during the past 50 years. None of the item featured in this exhibition has [...]
I began getting involved recently in a site called HubPages.com. It is essentially a giant blog where you can create an account, post “hubs” (blog style posts) and add adverts to them to create a revenue stream. Below are some great art hubs I came across just this morning!
Australian Art Oddities: Not all art [...]
The Earth is in a sad state and getting worse by the day. Coal burning and the use of fossil fuels in other forms are causing global warming at an alarming rate. Polar ice caps are melting; oceanic temperatures are rising; and weather patterns worldwide are changing forever. Sounds a little overwhelming doesn’t it? [...]
On 20 March 2008 it is the 5th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. The Free Articulator is marking this day by hosting the Peace March 20 initiative, focusing on artists as social activists during this time of conflict. We’d like to invite all visual artists, writers, and song writers to sign up, participate, [...]
What is a WIP you may ask (and, no, it is not misspelled)? For those non-savvy art lovers a WIP is a Work In Progress. Today I am going to share one of my own WIP’s with you. It is using a process of a grid system to begin work from. I find that using [...]
Selecting the Right Brush for the Job>>
December 21st, 2007
Any artist knows that there are hundreds of brushes available on the market today. Everything from synthetic hog’s hair to natural sable is available. But the question is which to use for which job? As an artist who works in a variety of mediums this can be [...]
As artists we tend to get caught up in what medium we are using and struggle to see art in other mediums. Some of us at least struggle with this. A good example of what I mean is the introduction of plastic as a medium. Plastics were first introduced into the world in the late [...]
