As a follow up to this post about the Sotheby’s (AUCTION) RED Art Auction, (part of the Bono created project red initiative) the results are in and they are MASSIVE. The auction took in 38.7 million dollars selling the work donated by 75 artists, including the ultra priced artist Damien Hirst, and the priciest living [...]
What do you do when you are nearing 50, made a career out of applying a veneer of some subculture to each album, and you are stumped about what to do next? You whore out the blacks, thats what you do. I normally resist writing about music on this blog because of its only tangental [...]
[video http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319916/bctid1509866020 Barry McGee part 1]
Always having been in love with graffiti art and especially the idea of bringing that style and mentality into the gallery and museum setting, Barry McGee has been one of my favorite artists and inspirations. This video is part 1 of the 2 part interview with him about his [...]
There isn’t a lot of information that I have been able to glean from the bio found on photographer Brian Finke (his site’s bio reads more like a resume). His work is distinctive in its combined use of natural and unnatural lighting in the same scene, giving a sense of something simultaneously real and unreal. [...]
With graduation approaching in the coming months for me, I have been looking in earnest at potential graduate schools. I have been told at every turn by every art professor I know, not to short-change myself by settling for a lesser school. That I should apply to some of the best. I am doing just [...]
I just wanted to start back doing updates on my work in various classes, like I did with painting and printmaking last semester. (For some reason my printmaking post is one of the most visited posts on this blog.) This work above, “Proliferation”, was a work I created for Intermedia class a couple of months [...]
