Latest Blog Posts for F***ART

• Try Writing with this 'Fountain' Pen: Julius Popp's Bit.Fall
  on May 16, 2009 in museum contemporary art Rose Emanuela Briccetti
  In the fall of 2006, artist Julius Popp exhibited his piece Bit.Fall at the Kemper Museum in St. Louis, MO, where I was living at the time. A fountain built with 'custom electonics,' Popp's piece used water droplets to spell out words.At the time I...
• The Brightest Crayon in the Box: Christian Joseph Faur
  on May 15, 2009 in art we like Rose Emanuela Briccetti
  See the photo at left? IT'S MADE OUT OF CRAYONS.  Yeah, I am for real.   One of my favorite art finds from one of my favorite websites, FFFFOUND.com, it's the work of Ohio artist Christian J. Faur.  Faur uses crayons as pixels, casting them in pla...
• Saving the world with Bling Bling: Valay Shende is an Artist to "Watch"
  on May 15, 2009 in Somalee Banerjee art we like
  On my never-ending trek through the internet art world, I recently came across the work of Valay Shende.  As an Indian-American myself, I am very excited (and proud) to see Indian based artists showing internationally in this increasingly global wor...
• The Sound of One Hand Painting: John Sarra's Tone Poems
  on May 14, 2009 in art we like painting Allison Holt contemporary art
  Good art can be interpreted, there is some meaning behind it. The best art does something, it moves you. Both visually and intellectually, the viewer is challenged or soothed. John Sarra's work somehow manages to do both. His paintings are tenderly r...
• Snake on a Plain: Elsie Taliaferro Hill
  on May 13, 2009 in art we like contemporary art
  While flipping through the New York Gallery Guide on the train the other day, I came across an ad for a show at Nabi Gallery feauring the work of artist Elsie Talieferro Hill. The image accompanying the advertisement (shown at left) was an unusal Ea...
• That's For My Windshield!!! The Art of Polly Morgan
  on May 11, 2009 in Allison Holt sculpture contemporary art
  No, she does not hunt down the flying rats and tree climbing, disease bags that plague our fair land, but it doesn't mean that higher mammals can't rejoice at Polly Morgan's spectacular animal, re- appropriation. These taxidermies are masterpieces.
• I Thought That She Was Bigger: The Traveling Art of Michael Hughes
  on May 11, 2009 in photography kitsch art Allison Holt
  I am guilty of taking pictures like this; I think we all are. Michael Hughes is making a career out of these tourist snapshots. He has captured the Leaning Tower in ice cream, the Eiffel Tower as a key chain. He has trotted the world and has the pic...
• Oh McGrew, You've Done it Again!
  on May 11, 2009 in art we like Rose Emanuela Briccetti
  Unlike the myopic old cartoon character with a similar last name (Mr. Magoo for those who aren't getting the reference), Emily McGrew is a cool young painter living and working in Austin, Texas.  Her charmingly cockeyed landscape paintings are base...
• F***ART gets called out for calling out David Bonetti for calling out Cindy Tower.
  on May 10, 2009 in contemporary art Rose Emanuela Briccetti
  The saga continues! Drink it up ya'll, drink it up.http://shawart.blogspot.com/2009/05/sticks-and-stones.htmlFor the record, no, those were not 'girls in the locker room' I was referring to, but rather the opinions of several arts professionals (so...
• Model as Muse? The Metropolitan Museum celebrates clothes hangers.
  on May 7, 2009 in museum Rose Emanuela Briccetti
  The tabloids were abuzz this week with details and dresses from THE social event of the year, The Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, a prom-like gathering for the rich and famous.  Apparently student council president Anna Wintour fall as...

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