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By The Editors October 01, 2012 About 24 people gathered in the town of Arlington, Vt. last weekend to recollect the moments they shared with painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell. The artist, famous for capturing Americana, lived in the southern Vermont town from 1939 to 1953 and placed about 300 subjects from the area in his iconic settings, according to the Associated Press. Around 70 area residents are still living. The Rockwell models met at the Norman Rockwell Exhibition in Arlington, which owns a collection of prints of the artist’s…
summit |ˈsəmit| noun 1. the highest point of a hill or mountain. figurative – the highest attainable level of achievement : the dramas are considered to form one of the summits of world literature. 2. a meeting between heads of government : [as adj. ] a summit conference. October 12th and 13th mark the return of Creative Time’s annual Summit in New York City, and the name is fitting given the organization’s belief in the power of artistic leadership. Confronting Inequity, held at NYU’s Skirball Center, “presents the work of cultural producers…
Last night I dreamt I was painting a tiny copy of Starry Night. It was one of those canvases that’s about an inch and a half tall. Sean accidentally bumped my arm, and I painted the whole thing blue in one stroke. I wonder what that means. This is a new painting. The title is “Dodgeball.” The title also might be, “I’d Like to Make a Reservation.” Acrylic on Canvas, 72″x60″
Harry Partch was not a Purist. And I quote. I quote Dean Drummond from the September 19 workshop at New England Conservatory entitled Partch’s Tuning: Beyond 43. Harry Partch was a composer and inventor best remembered for the creation of a 43-tone-per-octave scale and an array of microtonal instruments capable of playing music composed using his scale. How do ‘not a purist’ and a fascination so persistent that it leads one to develop a 43-tone-per-octave scale and create their own instruments fit together? There is a word that consistently emerges throughout the…
Flak Photo and Conscientious are arguably two of the most influential sites showing and discussing contemporary fine art photography online in recent years. Their respective creators/voices, Andy Adams and Jörg Colberg, got together on Thursday September 27th in Providence to discuss photography in the internet era in “Photo Futures,” presented at the RISD Museum of Art as part of the Artists on Art series. Colberg related that he and Adams had joked earlier in the evening about doing a “good cop/bad cop” routine (which, given their respective online personas, is one of…
“Something Along Those Lines” is formed loosely around Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #118. His piece, as explained thoroughly in both the wall text and the press release, has close ties to the SMFA. As the story goes, in 1971 LeWitt was invited to give a lecture but instead he opted to work directly with the School’s students on a new piece. The drawing, composed of “fifty randomly placed points all connected by straight lines,” was his first in Boston and 40 years later has been installed, again with the help of the…
Not being a comic guy, I had no idea that I’ve been walking past an exhibition of New England comic artists at the Atrium Gallery (1815 Mass ave Cambridge) for the last week. The third annual Mass Independent Comic Expo (MICE 2012) is happening in Porter square this weekend at AIB and there are a ton of workshops and talks that art nerds from all lines of art nerding might find interesting. David Marshall will be talking about Digital tools. Kriota Willberg will talk about ergonomics for artists. There will be a…
By The Editors September 28, 2012 We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out! Featured Advertisers Brooklyn Museum- GO is a community-curated open studio project. Artists across Brooklyn opened their studio doors, so that the public could decide who will be featured in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum NYU Steinhardt – Offers graduate art programs in Studio Art, Art Education, Art Therapy, Visual Culture: Costume Studies, and Visual Arts Administration.…