So I’m not sure how good a site this is, and it may just be a pagerank builder through links, but it’s still a nice composite list of blogs, and Implicit Art made the cut. 100 Must-See Art Blogs (of Every Form) Tags: me, re-blog tidbits
A good friend wrote to me from South Africa that (I’m paraphrasing here) “the US blogs are abuzz with Thanksgiving – must be a big deal there!” Since I grew up with it, I sometimes forget that to most people in the world, it’s just this weird holiday they hear about in the papers or [...]
… Small Worlds is an exhibition of photographs and a video installation that track constructions of a fantasy South Africa through representations of the landscape by railway modellers. The thesis of the exhibition is two-fold, and very neatly reasoned. First, Doherty, who is Head of Digital Art at the Wits School of Arts, reminds us [...]
Tags: art, milwaukee art
Good friend, move+shaker and Professor and Head of Digital Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Christo Doherty is having what looks to be a fantastic exhibition of prints and video on campus in a couple of weeks. According to the artist, he is using “macro photography and miniature video cameras to explore the [...]
Princeton University – Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution. read it. Tags: news and politics, re-blog tidbits, technology
I’m on my first show in Milwaukee – which opened this weekend – with 4 prints (and the Compressionism video), and 4 pieces from the odys series. Nice opening: congratulations to the Borg Ward Collective and A. Bill Miller and all the artists involved. See more pics from the exhibit opening. You around? Check out [...]
I’ve been asked to occasionally guest post on the myartspace blog. My first piece is about how the slumping economy might affect emerging artists. Teaser: … Picture this: around the time of the Clinton years and the dotcom boom (not to mention new taxes for imported art works in London), young artists (Young British Artists [...]
I simply had to re-blog the whole article, in its entirety. I was nearly brought to tears just reading it: In her own words: Teacher moved by students’ joy over Obama win – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe Boston teacher Felicia Kazer tells how Barack Obama’s election transformed McCormack Middle School in Dorchester [...]
It only takes a sec, and even a couple of bucks (instead of that cup o’ morning Joe) helps them WAY more than it hurts you. In this time of financial crisis, we NEED to support spaces that support us. Turbulence is one of the few new media art commissioning institutions around, and the only [...]
Mr President-Elect Barack Obama. Tags: news and politics
“Yeah, I’m the unlikely cable news host. But before that I was the unlikely Rhodes scholar. And before that I was the unlikely kid who got into Stanford. And then I was the unlikely lifeguard. You can always cast yourself as unlikely when you’re fundamentally alienated in your worldview. It’s a healthy approach for a [...]
