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Australian born artist Anthony Lister is showing at the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City from March 19 through to April 19.A lot of my favorite artists are painters that never really give up using the pencil (line). Painterly paintings are good but so

I'm really good at making lists. I'm a list person. Without lists I watch too much tv, surf the web, or read too much.I create lists that are too ambitious as I rarely ever complete the jobs on them. Which in some ways shows the masochist in me as I know

Spencer Tunick has encouraged 5000 Australians to get naked and pose on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.That's not my white bum on the bottom left of the image as I chose not to scare the locals. I'm not much of a morning person either.From the Sydney

I like discovering interesting artists that I have never heard of before. French artist Bernard Lorjou (1908-1986) is one of them. I still don't know much about him but I like his work.Bernard Lorjou - Bull and Bullfighter (The Friends)Bernard Lorjou - Th

"Procrastination refers to the deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting and/or completing any task or decision. There are three criteria for a

Happy holidays!Don't eat or drink too much.RelaxDionThe santa painting was stolen here.

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Judith Schaechter, A Little Torcher, 1990, glass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program This is not your grandmother's stained glass. Ins

Avi Wisnia Laurel Fehrenbach, public programs assistant here at American Art, spoke with Avi Wisnia of the Avi Wisnia Quartet about their upcoming performance at Take 5! on Thursday, May 19, from 5 to 8 p.m. Eye Level: You have...

American Art collaborated with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) to research the materials and techniques of American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) in preparation for a 2012 PAFA exhibition of Tanner's works titled, Henry Ossawa Tanne

Alli Jessing, Joint Programs Coordinator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, spoke with Carlos Garza and Rich O'Meara of Silent Orchestra about their upcoming cineconcert. On May 14, 2011, the duo will premiere a new sco

Collector, Helen Zell In the more than sixty years since first collecting dolls and Katy Keene comics (complete with cut-out costumes!) as a child, Helen Zell, smitten with what she called "the collection gene gone wild," hasn't stopped. In more

What would compel you to become a member of an artist organization? What benefits are you seeking? What kind of leadership are you looking for? What would make you write a check and join up?

Are you devoting enough time to the studio? Without your art, you have nothing to promote and share with the world.

Whenever I create a new product, I go through a series of steps to make sure the product is available on all of my sites. Sometimes I execute this process better than other times, so I thought it was about time I write it down. Maybe it will help you with

How do you use a published catalog to promote your art more effectively?

The Twitter interface has some cool features, such as Who to Follow and Browse Interests, to help you find the best tweeps to follow. High quality tweeps = potential high-quality connections.

Your bio on Twitter is key to attracting high-quality followers. Does yours need a boost?In your Twitter bio, tell us about your interests so that we want to follow you. Intrigue us. Make us want to know more. Make us laugh. Here are some of my favorite a

Regular readers (there are a few of you still) may have noticed the highly erratic nature of my postings of late.  As I write this it is early May, six months have passed since I returned from my adventure in Asia, yet I just finished telling the tal

After much discussion amongst ourselves the night before, the artists in our room decided that the best way to easily transition our bodies back to our normal time zone would be to stay up all night and not fall asleep until it was our normal bedtime back

Our last full day in Indonesia saw us sleeping off the prior night's festivities and getting a late start to the day.  My wife and I  spent most of the afternoon packing while the other artists scattered to the winds on last minute missions. &nb

The morning was spent sleeping in, followed by food and lounging around the suite.  I continued working on a group of collaborative paintings with some of the other artists.  Once it got close to time to be at the museum we got ready and took a

We started the day with breakfast in our room, a sort of pot-luck where everyone gathered ingredients and brought them.  The grocery store was an adventure.  We also sent a representative to sneak up bakery items from the buffet downstairs. &nbs

After breakfast the whole group gathered up their artwork for the second museum exhibit and loaded up into an enormous van?, clown car style, to check out the venue and hang the show.Once we arrived at the museum and met with the directors, etc. it w

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Fractaloid cube deformation rearranged. Don't know who posted the original science GIF to dump.fm or where it first came from but to quote the '80s synth duo Voice Farm, "It's my idea now."

Hexagrama is a circular music sequencer based on "sacred geometry" that triggers notes on a virtual plugin instrument; here is a video demo (hat tip dataisnature). It's intriguing to watch for a couple of minutes as you puzzle out the connections between

Financial blogger Barry Ritholtz found this "awesome generic sentence" in a Twitter post: In a financial world ruled by ________, we will continue to be hit with “sudden” crises as a result of __________. He invited commenters to fill in blanks and the re

GIF capture of a web page by Hypothete (Duncan Alexander). Unlike this GIF's limited palette--I cut it off at 44 KB--Alexander's "painting" keeps obliterating itself with various color combos ad infinitum. Once again, Microsoft's inferior IE browser doesn

If you dislike Sol LeWitt's late wall work--and who doesn't?--you might enjoy this series of Performances In Front of Sol LeWitt, posted by Michael Manning on the Too Much Concept blog. Actually, am not sure what Manning thinks of the works but this is c

Am still finding GIFs I posted years ago that I was relying on HTML dimensions to enlarge, which became unfeasible when browsers all adopted the Safari model of making edges look as soft as a baby's skin (so you are protected from "jaggies" that might ups

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http://firstmonday.org/issue/current This issue marks the 15th anniversary of First Monday. The first issue appeared on the first Monday of May 1996. With the contents of the May 2011 issue, First Monday has published 1,114 papers in 178 issues, written b

:: DESTACADO :: Primera Semana de Obras Libres (SOL1) 13.05.2011 – 19.05.2011 Semana de actividades [...]

L’édition spéciale Biennale de Montréal du Magazine électronique du CIAC est maintenant en ligne et…en salle! L’exposition virtuelle et in situ Le hasard : une force imaginaire pour les arts électroniques présente des oeuvres inédites d

“The virtual Prigione” APP for IPhone, is an interactive portrait video-sculpture inspired by the concept of  the latest “unfinished” sculptures of Michelangelo, named “Prigioni.” The App is dynamic and interactive, the user can sculpt it just using the f

WHAT: Upgrade! Boston: Dietmar Offenhuber: Diagrammatic Reasoning http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston/2011/05/dietmar-offenhuber/ WHEN: May 24, 2011; 7:00 – 9:00 pm WHERE: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachuse

As you may or may not know, The Best Part is celebrating its 3rd anniversary of finding and publishing the best of art + design on the web. It's been an amazing experience, I've met or spoken to some of the most incredible artists in the world and learned

Jaw-droppingly insane detailed sculptures by Kris Kuksi. Beware, this is an intensely engrossing, time-sapping site. This one's for you, Omar.

Penguin Books' Great Food series brings together twenty of the greatest writings on food from the past four hundred years and features a spectacular group of cover designs from Coralie Bickford-Smith.

It's been a while since I last checked in with Sonnenzimmer (Chicago's Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi), but I was recently reminded by RBT. I didn't think they could possibly get any better, but they continue to evolve their work - here are some of the

It's been a while since my last print release, but just in time for spring comes Emerald Leaves, an oversize (24"x24") poster of an emerald composed of hundreds of images of green leaves. A natural companion to the Moon Diamond, it's being released along

a portmanteau composed to leave behind an ecstatic legacy

Someone’s freed the lunatics from Le Jardin Noir, France’s equivalent to Arkham Asylum, and they’ll turn Paris into a living nightmare unless Batman and Robin can get there to stop them. I just can’t get enough of the weird, Inception-nesque sights on the

Charming Baker is one of the UK’s fastest rising artists, and his paintings are being sold for tens of thousands of pounds to some of the world’s biggest collectors. Some of the bulk buyers of the works include Damien Hirst, the super-controversial Englis

Black style taxicab from London, Yellowcab from New York City, Panelvan style from Istanbul, VW Beetle from Mexico City. Also this posters displays a current taxi fare information. Lovely set of limited-edition posters created by Mehmet Gozetlik, an Execu

“Lessons for the Living” is a poignant, yet uplifting documentary about “the experience of death, and what it teaches us from those who surround themselves with it.” Directed by Lily Henderson, the 55 minute documentary is a series of interviews with hosp

Poor Shaggy!  He was killed and eaten by a mutant zombie, while on a desperate quest to find the last Scooby Snack®. A Threadless t-shirt designed by Travis Pitts. To stay updated, please follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. You can also subscri

Check out some of the minimalist, pop culture themed artworks sent in by Andy Awesome, an artist (or most probably, a creative group) based in Munich, Germany. The acrylic paintings are part of his/their Series 2, uh, series. Andy says: In Dec. 2010, I wa