background preloader

Arte

Facebook Twitter

Bienal (artes) Bienal significa literalmente "dos años"[1] y puede utilizarse para describir cualquier acontecimiento que sucede cada dos años.

Bienal (artes)

Es comúnmente usado en el mundo del arte para mentar una manifestación internacional de arte contemporáneo. Encuentros internacionales de arte realizados con el intervalo de tiempo que su nombre indica.[1] Organizados principalmente como muestras de producciones contemporáneas, se convierten en centros de interés, ya que en ellos se exhibe lo más avanzado de cada país participante, suscitando polémicas y debates teóricos.[1] Por ejemplo, la "Bienal de París", que fue creada en 1959 por André Malraux.

La palabra se escribe de forma idéntica (Biennale) en francés. Museums Block Holocaust Survivors, Relatives from Claiming Looted Art. American museums are accused of stopping Holocaust survivors and their heirs from claiming art looted by Nazis.

Museums Block Holocaust Survivors, Relatives from Claiming Looted Art

The New York Times has published an article explaining that some museums, including NYC's Guggenheim, are using tactics to impede owners from getting their property. Museums have avoided legal battles by asking judges to officially declare artworks as their property, beating owners to the punch. This is a practice of museums like the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Museums have also not been forthcoming with relevant information that would aid people in uncovering the actual history behind an artwork. Periodismo de investigación en formato cómic.

Una buena historia no conoce fronteras.

Periodismo de investigación en formato cómic

Surreal Photographs Mix Wes Anderson And Salvador Dali. Photographer Todd Baxter doesn't try to capture real life in his photos.

Surreal Photographs Mix Wes Anderson And Salvador Dali

He's a narrative artist whose medium happens to be photography. "I have these ideas for a scene—like two kids looking into a glowing hole at night in the woods ("Owl Scouts") or the aftermath of a burglary with a couple tied up in their living room ("Bound and Gagged")," he says, "and I try to make them happen. " Un artista reúne 66.000 tazas de agua para lograr hacer una genialidad, mira el resultado - La Torrija.

Teoria

Comic, grafico, etc. Paisajes de cada Región de colombia. La verde inmensidad sí tiene un límite, Guaviare Madiyaco, Putumayo.

Paisajes de cada Región de colombia

Peek Inside The Studios Of 14 Art Stars. An artist’s studio gives you an unimpeded view into his or her inner life and creative process--perhaps more so than an actual chat might.

Peek Inside The Studios Of 14 Art Stars

That’s what makes Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios, from Thames and Hudson, so fascinating. This 600-page tome offers a rare glimpse into the work spaces of 120 of today’s most creative minds, including Yinka Shonibare, Juergen Teller, Jenny Saville, Anish Kapoor, and Tracey Emin. Nele Azevedo. Surreal Photos of 99 Animals Gathered Around the Ultimate Watering Hole. Last March, we told you about Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang's latest installation, 99 life-sized wild animals gathered around the ultimate watering hole.

Surreal Photos of 99 Animals Gathered Around the Ultimate Watering Hole

Now showing at the Queensland's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until May 11, you can witness this stunning installation yourself. Called Heritage 2013 it shows both predator and prey all drinking from the same blue lake surrounded by pristine white sand, which was inspired by the lakes of Moreton Bay’s islands. Many visitors have already started uploading their own Instagram photos saying things like, "Wow!! Visual feast. 99 Animals. Turquoise. Truly, this is one installation we'd love to see ourselves. Photo above credit: QAG Photo: kirstitenni Photo: NicandTom. 'Vaginal Knitting' Is Here To Make Everyone Afraid Of Performance Art Once Again (NSFW) Two words: Vaginal.

'Vaginal Knitting' Is Here To Make Everyone Afraid Of Performance Art Once Again (NSFW)

Knitting. This curious form of performance art comes to us courtesy of feminist artist Casey Jenkins, a self-professed "craftivist" who is knitting using wool placed -- you guessed it -- inside her vagina. "I'm spending 28 days knitting from wool that I've inserted in my vagina," the Melbourne-based artist explains in the video above. "Everyday I take a new skein of wool that's been wound so that it will unravel from the centre and I stick it up inside me... and then I pull out the thread and knit. " Blue Ball Machine. iGNANT.

London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz creates ‘Anamorphic Sculptures’ which only reveal themselves once facing a reflective cylinder.

iGNANT

Hurwitz took an engineering degree in Johannesburg where he discovered the fine line between art and science. He has lived in England for many years, working in the online industry though he quietly levitated into the world of art inspired by a need to make ‘something real’. Hurwitz discovered that he could use science as an artistic paintbrush. Each of his sculptures is a study on the physics of how we perceive space and is the stroke of over 1 billion calculations and algorithms. Stories That Jump Off The Page: See Stunning Art Made From Books. They stalk books with X-Acto knives, tiny sandblasters, glue, paint, scissor, and a shared obsession for giving new form to old things.

Stories That Jump Off The Page: See Stunning Art Made From Books

The resulting sculptures, as pictured in the upcoming Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved and Transformed (Chronicle Books), extend the shelf life for phone books, encyclopedias, pulp fiction and fairy tales. Instead of winding up in the landfill, ink-on-paper artifacts can now be rejiggered as astonishing text objects that have nothing to do with words. "There’s been a huge proliferation of artists who are interested in the book as a medium," says Alyson Kuhn, who authored the introduction to Art Made From Books.

"Some of these artists are making comments about the role of reading in contemporary culture, others find that books are a handy art form.

Seleccion personal

Teatro. Cine. MODA. Arte plástico y visual. Arte callejero. Digital, 3D y nuevas formas. Performance. Media art.