Gold Gallery - Artists. Artists - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Uta Barth Martin Boyce Sandra Cinto Phil Collins Mat Collishaw Mark Dion Olafur Eliasson Meschac Gaba Siobhán Hapaska Sabine Hornig Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Carla Klein Agnieszka Kurant Liz Larner Charles Long Rita Lundqvist Mark Manders Jason Meadows Ernesto Neto Rivane Neuenschwander Susan Philipsz Peggy Preheim Analia Saban Tomás Saraceno Thomas Scheibitz Hannah Starkey Haim Steinbach Dirk Stewen Jack Strange Sarah Sze Neal Tait Jeffrey Vallance Gillian Wearing Nicole Wermers Michael Wilkinson. When Respected Authors, from Goethe to Kerouac, Try Their Hand at Painting. Freshly posted on publisher Melville House‘s blog, you’ll find examples of visual art by textual artists; drawings and paintings, in other words, drawn and painted by people who have gone down in history for their way with sentences. This could easily turn into a lesson about not quitting one’s day job. But, as you can see from the work above, Maria Nys Huxley at Siesta, Melville House blogger Kevin Murphy hasn’t put together a study in the incompetence of the dilettante.
You’ve surely already guessed the literary connection: the painting came from the hand of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley, who put his wife Maria Nys to canvas in 1920, when both were still in their twenties. The post features more paintings from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust, Hermann Hesse, e.e. cummings, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Connor, and Henry Miller. Can you guess the author — er, artist? Via @KirstinButler.
Photos: 10 paintings worth millions. Graffiti art targets Kenyan 'vultures' Graffiti artists work on the details of their latest piece in Nairobi, Kenya. They paint political art highlighting corruption and compare national leaders to vultures. Kenyan graffiti artists put down traffic cones and road markings when they are painting to make the sites appear official. The graffiti gang steps back and admires their latest work. Each wears the 'anti-vulture' jacket. Before the group turned to political art their work including entertainment figures like Michael Jackson. U.S. President Barack Obama is another of the group's non-corruption paintings. Another of the group's anti-corruption works.
They choose the most visible walls to paint hoping the message will result in electoral change. Details from one wall work that sums up the group's message to Kenyan voters. Graffiti criticizes Kenya's corrupt 'vultures' Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- A white bus drives through Nairobi at midnight. Mwangi marshals his artists at a blank white wall next to a bank. "The power is in the vote. - e-Literate. By Beth Harris, Ph.D. and Steven Zucker, Ph.D., Deans, Art and History, Khan Academy Our schools and libraries are being radically re-imagined for the digital age, but what about our museums? The New York Public Library, for example, is bravely (and controversially) rethinking its Fifth Avenue flagship building. Last month, MIT and Harvard announced edX, a partnership to offer free online courses, and last fall, Stanford offered three massive open online courses (MOOC) to hundreds of thousands of students for free, and Khan Academy provided 6.1 million unique users with free instruction in March 2012 alone.
Museums, on the other hand, have remained largely insular and focused on their institutional identity. So perhaps it’s no surprise that the most recent digital innovation comes not from the museums themselves but from Google, which launched the second iteration of the Google Art Project last month. This is a really big deal. There are some hopeful signs. Google+ Comments.