Latest Blog Posts for Art Hobbies

• Doodle 4 Google - Population Control
  on Feb 5, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  Doodle 4 Google is a competition open to school kids, giving them an opportunity to design a Google logo. The theme for the competition is "What I wish for the World."So I did my own crude Google doodle in Photoshop expressing what I wish for th
• Light and space photography?
  on Feb 4, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  On the left, Luisa Lambri's Untitled (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, #12), 2008 and on view now at Luhring Augustine in New York. On the right, Hiroshi Sugimoto's C1015, from his Colors of Shadow series.
• A need to revisit the outrage?
  on Feb 4, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  Could the Iowa legislature force the sale of the University of Iowa Art Museum's Jackson Pollock?
• The collection catalogue is dead, long live the catalogue
  on Feb 4, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  There is a section of one of my bookcases where I keep collection catalogues from museums such as the Walker, MCASD, and so on. It's a great reference for when I want to find images to use on MAN or when I just want to look something up.The problem i
• Tuesday links
  on Feb 3, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  I love it when stuff like this happens: Last year I did a post about the near-death of artist self-portraits just as the rest of us embrace them on Facebook and Twitter and so on. So along comes painter Matt Held... who will paint your JPEG'd self-po
• LAT details MOCA board departures
  on Feb 3, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  Last Friday I told you that MOCA would announce job cuts and trustee changes. Late that day  the museum announced the job cuts. Today the LAT has the story of substantial trustee departures.
• Morandi’s brushstrokes
  on Feb 3, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  Continued from here...Paradoxically, when I encountered the best Morandis at the Met's recent retrospective, my first impulse was to step back from them. Morandi still-lifes may be small paintings -- the Met's show amusingly demonstrated how man
• ANB on the Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog
  on Feb 3, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  Art News Blog will now have an article posted on the Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog from time to time. I even have my own profile page here. I have a little giggle to myself when I see my name on a list of real writers. Most of the others on the list...
• Your day in Brandeis, piling-on edition
  on Feb 2, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  First up: A journalist asked me in email why I don't talk about "deaccessioning" re: what is happening to the Rose Art Museum. Fair question. Answer: Because it's not a deaccessioning. Brandeis is attempting to seize the Rose Art Museu
• Jacir-and-SFMOMA follow-up
  on Feb 2, 2009 in Art Hobbies
  Ed Winkleman posted the most thoughtful response to the SFMOMA-Jacir news that I've read so far. His take is spot-on. SFMOMA is both trying to stand behind the piece and in front of it, and in the process the museum is insulting the artist and her wo

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