(L to R) Creative Time Global Resident Theaster Gates, Ysmaille Jean Baptiste, the Program Coordinator for Photographer Nadia Todres’ Center for the Arts, Port-au-Prince, and Creative Time President and Artistic Director Anne PasternakTheaster Gates just made the first of his trips to Haiti as part of his Creative Time Global Residency. Gates is meeting with artisans in Haiti to enable them to bring their craft to the global market, with the goal of helping to create a self-sustaining economy.Creative Time’s Global Residency Program, initiated in 2010, was designed to enable artists to step off the treadmill of exhibition making and into the world to explore a burning question that cannot be fully pursued in the studio.
“Daniel Eatock making a new edition of Felt Tip Print” (Walker Art Center, October 2011)
They are not pictures. I have made a place.
Mark Rothko
(via mythologyofblue)
You can have a powerful and intimate response to art, without knowing that Marcel Duchamp pioneered the idea of the readymade. All too often it seems like those entrenched in the art world, myself included, are too numbed by big names and buzzwords and the weight of art history to have a fresh perspective.
Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)
This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.
Just watched this in the ArtPrize office.
DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2012 (Shine Brighter) (by Dj Earworm)
Their analysis found that people who have direct or indirect involvement with the arts are more likely to also have direct participation in three dimensions of civil society: engagement in civic activities, social tolerance and other-regarding (i.e., altruistic) behavior. These results hold true even when factoring in demographic variables for age, race and education.
Ant Ballet | Pestival 2012 (by Ollie Palmer)
Artist takes images of people from Google Street View, prints them life size, then pastes them in the real location.
(via Vandalog – A Street Art Blog » Paolo Cirio is either a horrible person or a great conceptual artist)
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