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Local Artists
We are pleased to announce, with support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Beta Launch of the new Irving Sandler Artists File: local-artists.org.
Operating for more than 38 years, with over 10,000 current users, this is not only the largest but also the earliest established artist registry in the world; receiving currently over 39 million hits annually it is the top-ranking artist registries in the world.
local-artists.org will allow you to present your work effectively, initiate contact from peer to peer and from artist to curator, and offers many new networking possibilities as well as enhanced search features. Among many other features the New Artist Membership Account allows you to upload unlimited videos to your portfolio.
Off the top of my head…
Favorite art blogs:
Favorite Art Sites:
- Artlog
- White Columns
- Saatchi Gallery
- Flickr, of course
Overloaded And Overcrowded
Amazing.
TumblrThemr
“…letting you develop navigable themes locally using real data from your Tumblr blog.”
Lybian Cartoonist Critical of Gadhafi Still Missing
Yesterday, news broke that four New York Times journalists in Libya were released six days after they were captured by pro-government forces while covering a rebel uprising in the country’s east.
However, The Committee to Protect Journalists remains concerned about 13 other journalists who are either missing or are reportedly in Libyan government custody, including editorial cartoonist Mohamed al-Amin and five other Libyan journalists.
50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos
#20 is my favorite.
Have You Heard the One About the Art Scene Embracing Comedians?
Art and comedy have always circled around each other, intermingling. There are funny artists—Marcel Duchamp, John Baldessari, and Maurizio Cattelan—and comedians whose work feels like performance art: Charlie Chaplin, Andy Kaufman, or Zach Galifianakis. Right now, a groundswell of interest in comedy among artists and curators is bringing the two lineages closer than ever.
Modern art: How gallery visitors only viewed work by Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin for less than 5 seconds | Mail Online
I can understand why you wouldn’t look at Damien Hirst’s work for very long, but this is just sad.
“Colin day, a teacher at goldsmiths College, London, who helped Hirst produce earlier works such as A Thousand years, said: ‘Some of Damien’s work I love, some I hate. What I really hate is the way he has commercialised everything - the fact that he could exhibit a piece of paper and it would be worth £50,000. But the sheep is interesting. you ask yourself: did this animal die for this art?’ ”
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