Josh Begley. A House of Unique Character. According to the art critics of the day, the rooms in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Townsend House, his home near St.
Mapping the Blind Spots: Developer Unearths Secret U.S. Military Bases. If you look closely enough on Google or Bing Maps, some places are blanked out, hidden from public view.
Many of those places disguise secret or sensitive American military facilities. The United States military has a foothold in every corner of the world, with military bases on every continent. The Listserve. !Mediengruppe Bitnik. How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War. Considering the possibility of a truly proletarian art, the great English literary critic William Empson once wrote, “the reason an English audience can enjoy Russian propagandist films is that the propaganda is too remote to be annoying.”
Perhaps this is why American artists and bohemians have so often taken to the political iconography of far-flung regimes, in ways both romantic and ironic. Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World - News. For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact.
The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. Niki Feijen. DC museum gets cinematic makeover. This spring, millions of people strolling at night near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. will be able to see a museum turned inside-out.
The Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is giving its trademark circular cement exterior a glowing, 360-degree makeover. Between March 22 and May 13, from sundown to midnight, artist Doug Aitken’s "SONG 1" installation will use 11 high-definition video projectors to seamlessly blend moving images around the entire building to the tune of the pop song “I Only Have Eyes for You.” The film will include more than 15 covers of the song from a diverse group of artists including Beck and The Flamingos.
Work of Daniel Johnston, Texas Artist, Inspires New Video Game. Hi, How Are You? Official Daniel Johnston Web Site. New from Banksy - London. New from Banksy - London. Even more from Banksy - London. Banksy is really doing it big this time.
Art Installations. Crowdsourced Public Art Project Captures Community Spirit Around the World - Media. Rather than waiting for people to seek out his art in museums or galleries, artist JR brings it to the streets, posting arresting black-and-white portraits of locals around the world on the walls of their neighborhoods.
His goal is to give voice and representation to communities that otherwise might be obscured, like women living in Brazilian or Kenyan slums. With his latest global art initiative, the InsideOut Project, JR is spreading his mission on a scale that was previously unimaginable, by crowdsourcing personal photos and the labor of posting them. The project was made possible by TED, which awarded JR the 2011 TED Prize, complete with a $100,000 grant to fund a world-changing project. InsideOut invites anyone in the world to participate by submitting a digital photo to its website. A printing studio in New York City will turn the image into a larger-than-life poster, and mail it back to the subject to paste on a wall in his neighborhood. Images courtesy of JR-art.net. Billboard Liberation: Artistically Redesigning the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall.
The second episode of Season 4 brought us another wedding ceremony for the ages, and ended with a bang.
[Warning: SPOILERS] In retrospect, we really should have seen it coming. I am referring, of course, to the Big Shocking Plot Twist at the end of Sunday night’s episode of Game of Thrones. Free Ai Wei Wei! Anna Deavere Smith on Art and Politics . NOW. Week of 8.11.06 What role do and should artists play when it comes to social critique and commentary?
NOW's David Brancaccio sits with award-winning playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith to discuss an artist's responsibility in a world wracked by war. Widely known for her realistic portrayal of National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on NBC's The West Wing, Smith's one-woman shows — inspired by interviews with activists, politicians, and prison inmates — have set her apart as one of theater's most electrifying performers, one who's not afraid to get political. Her mission to translate art into social commentary about race, poverty, and injustice has raised both her profile and her impact. Tyeb Mehta (20th Century Museum of Contemporary Indian Art) Tyeb Mehta Born in Gujarat in 1925 Tyeb Mehta spent an initial period working as a film editor in a cinema laboratory.
Its interest in painting however took him to the Sir J.J. Artist for all times. Metro Plus Chennai Hyderabad Artist for all times ART FOREVER: Tyeb Mehta and M.F.
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