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When was the last time you made a fine stack of cows? [via solipsistnation]
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it. Bank$y (via artismyhustle)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpylaBc4mhQ bashford: Times Square to Art Square is a very complex project with a simple goal: to turn all advertising on Times Square into art. “We want to convince the world that advertising space should be about more than promoting goods and services, that those spaces could also be used for creative expressions. We will…
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Can You Read the Smallest Legible Computer Font?
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‘Money for Nothing’ was a much bigger hit than anything that Dire Straits had done before; that is, Knopfler made himself into a successful rock star by way of a song about people resenting rock stars’ success. He also abandoned his own opposition to making music videos, so the song was marketed with an MTV…
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jasonpermenter: Comic Sans Typographic Specimen Sheet (Available soon, typophiles—along with Page 2—via Etsy.)
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I thought I had made my peace with the death of originality. Personally, I do not believe that originality has died, but I recognize that the obituaries cannot exactly be ignored. I keep abreast of whatever is being said about the death-of-originality movement’s dead white males, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. And I try to…
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January 13, 2011, 9:54 AM Museum of Modern Art Acquires Video Withdrawn From Smithsonian Exhibition By KATE TAYLOR The Museum of Modern Art has acquired the David Wojnarowicz video that was removed from a show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington after drawing criticism from a religious organization and some congressional Republicans. The museum…
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January 18, 2011, 12:36 PM Smithsonian Chief Defends Withdrawal of Video By KATE TAYLOR The top official of the Smithsonian, G. Wayne Clough, who has been sharply criticized for his decision late last year to remove a video from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, defended that decision in a telephone interview on Tuesday…
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December 20, 2010, 2:20 PM National Portrait Gallery Rejects Artist’s Request to Remove His Work By KATE TAYLOR James Estrin/The New York Times AA Bronson The National Portrait Gallery in Washington will not comply with an artist’s request that it remove a work of his from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,”…