Talk about watching Dick and Jane run into the 21st century The piece is called "School Days" and it was submitted to the Emerald Art Center monthly members’ show by Linda Cunningham. Cunningham created the assemblage in response to the Sandy Hook school massacre. The center rejected the piece deeming it “too controversial” and “inappropriate.” Cunnigham said she: did this piece because of my feelings about Sandy Hook and all the little children and teachers who were killed there...Here we are, a year later, and nothing has been done to prevent gun violence,...I say, what’s controversial about not killing children? The National...
Paper Master Li Hongbo at work
[youtube]http://youtu.be/gttdbqX4SWA[/youtube] For one piece he used 20,000 sheets of paper! Wow! Wow! Wow!
Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (ca. 662–710), One of the Three Gods of Poetry From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1. Yashima Gakutei, ca. 1820's This is the last weekend for those of you in the New York area to see this incredible exhibition on view. Lucky for the rest of us the The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an online exhibition featuring 185 items. What is brush writing?: The art of brush writing in East Asia both encompasses and transcends the Western aesthetic concept of "calligraphy,"... Japan inherited from China a fascination with the artistic potential of inscribing characters with flexible...
Read: A street art campaign by Jay Giroux
Jay Giroux started sticking and posting this image in 2005. Though the colors and placement change the mighty wings and the powerful READ blindfold hold steady. Cool. photo by Irakli Mirzashviliphoto by Chris Kelly "More Mystery, Less Hype" – Read.
In the Stacks: Leslie Jones at the Boston Public Library
Gertrude Fisher takes unusual position to read the latest novel of her husband M.S. Merritt. November 26, 1932 Though he worked as staff photographer of Boston Herald-Traveler from 1917 to 1956 Leslie Jones considered himself more of a camera-man then a photo-journalist. And when all was said and done he had amassed "a stunning pictorial document of the history of Boston in the 20th century." The Old Bookstore, Cornhill March 1930 His collection of almost 40,000 negatives was donated to the Boston Public Library by his family in the early 1970's and now thanks to the work of the Digital Commonwealth and...