Turning Museums into Vanity Spaces - Tyler Green

"Private collection shows are an insult to scholarship and curators"

One of the oddest things I’ve seen in a museum was the first paragraph of a wall text at the 2008 exhibition “Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of LA: Selections from the Cheech Marin Collection” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It explained, in unusually honest terms, why the exhibition was on view at one of America’s major public art museums. It said that the collector’s celebrity (and resulting wealth), not the art, was the basis for the show. This explanation of the reason for the show was an unintentional, but specific, insult to the artists whose work was on view: “You’re only here because of your association with a Hollywood star.” The exhibition was an embarrassment... - Tyler Green

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GPS Drawing - Jeremy Wood

Landform Ueda, GPS Map 2002Landform Ueda was designed by architect and author Charles Jencks.
It occupies an area of 3,000sq m (32,000sq ft) and lives outside Scotland's National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Jeremy Wood is a multidiscipline artist and map maker whose diverse work offers people and places a playground of space and time. In October 2000 he began to explore GPS satellite technology as a tool for digital mark making on water, over land, and in the air.
He makes drawings and maps of his movements by recording all his daily journeys with GPS to create a personal cartography. His work binds the body to the arts and sciences by physically interacting and responding to spaces and places.

Wood has conducted numerous GPS drawing and mapping seminars and workshops in schools, museums and galleries. His work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the University of the Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is based in the UK & Athens and is represented by the Tenderpixel Gallery -10 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE. - gpsdrawing.com

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In Defense of Beauty - Ruth Lorand

In Defense of Beauty
Ruth Lorand

"At a recent ASA meeting, upon expressing my interest in beauty and its relation to art, a colleague responded: “Oh, beauty is such a difficult concept, and it is so eighteenth century….” I certainly agree with the former part, but I entirely disagree with the latter. Indeed, beauty is a difficult concept. In fact, these are the concluding words of Hippias Major, the dialogue which Plato devoted to an inquiry into the concept of beauty. The interest in beauty was revived in the eighteenth century after its wide spread dismissal by the rationalists of the seventeenth century. Is it then an eighteenth-century concept? Beauty is as relevant now as it was at the time of Plato and of Kant simply because it has never ceased to be of interest in everyday life..."

Link Full Text, Ruth Lorand, In Defense of Beauty, Aesthetics Online
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Perils in Nude Modeling - A Short Video by Scott Rice

Perils in Nude Modeling

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Description: Drawing a nude model turns into a showdown between a hapless art student and his imperious teacher. Can a flurry of charcoal and paper create true art? And maybe even true love?

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A Few Good Nudes - Dawn Fallik

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A Few Good Nudes

Art schools are body surfing, looking for models in all shapes, sizes,colors. Drawing diverse forms makes a better artist.

Lora McKenna needs bodies. She needs big bodies and little bodies and old bodies and Asian and African American bodies. And the University of the Arts model coordinator is fairly shameless about approaching people about their bodies at parties, on the street, and in class.

"I met a woman at a party New Year's Eve - she looked like a character from a Tim Burton film," McKenna said. "She was about 50, with hair down to her waist and maybe she was 100 pounds. She was such a character, she'd be great to draw."

The general belief is that models for figure-drawing classes need to have picture-perfect figures. But across the region, colleges and art schools say they're in desperate need of different bodies to pose, usually naked but not always, for figure-drawing, anatomy, and animation classes...

Dawn Fallik

The Philadelphia Inquirer

February, 3, 2010

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Flipbook - Create Animations Online

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Flipbook! is the drawing game that allows people to create simple animations and share them with the world!

How do I draw on Flipbook!?

A lot like its predecessor, you draw with your mouse on the drawing area and use the arrows to add frames or to go back to previous frames.

Colors and different stroke widths have been added to give Flipbook! a wider range of expression. Another extra tool is the 'duplicate frame' button which makes the animation job a lot easier.

- Flipbook web site

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Why Beauty Matters - Philosopher Roger Scurton

Source: YouTube via Painting Perceptions Blog

Link Painting Perceptions Blog by Larry Groff

Link Why Beauty Matters, Roger Scurton, YouTube, Parts 2 - 6

The Annie Awards - Animation's Highest Honor

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Update: Pixar Animation Studios, "Up", wins Annie for Best Animated Feature.

Best Animated Feature Nominations

•Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation
•Coraline — Laika
•Fantastic Mr. Fox — 20th Century Fox
•The Princess and the Frog — Walt Disney Animation Studios
•The Secret of Kells — Cartoon Saloon
•Up — Pixar Animation Studios

Legacy: An Interview with June Foray

The Annie Awards is ASIFA-Hollywood's most glamorous event. Each year we dress up and get together like the other academies to honor our stars. In fact, the Awards are so much a part of our organization, we tend to forget there was a time before the Annies.

That we have an awards celebration is due to longtime ASIFA-Hollywood standout June Foray. In Hollywood lingo, the Annies were “June's baby.” It was she who conceived the idea and proceeded to make them a reality...

- The Annie Awards Web Site

Link June Foray, Wikipedia
Link Full Text, Legacy: An Interview with June Foray
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