Tag: art
Artist Ramiro Gomez paints cardboard cut-outs of LA's "invisible workers"
Artist and nanny Ramiro Gomez paints life size cardboard cut-outs of housekeepers, landscapers and gardeners to pay homage to the hidden workers behind LA’s wealthiest neighborhoods....
Bespoke 'fairings' designed to give prosthetic limbs a bit more personality
The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have left many veterans with artificial limbs. But, typically, they're simple, utilitarian devices, more function than form. But a company is setting out to do more than that and turn them into art....
Arts advocate critical of Obama's Turnaround Arts Initiative for select U.S. schools
President Barack Obama's administration rolled out a new program that seeks to turn around underperforming schools by integrating the arts into the core curriculum of each school. But a former federal education official and arts advocate said it's the wrong approach to funding arts education....
Recession hitting 'cultural creatives' especially hard
While the recession seems to loosening its grip on the U.S. economy, but one group isn't seeing it. The cultural creatives, small businesspeople like photographers, architects and graphic designers have seen their ranks thinned by 20 to 30 percent and are still waiting for the bounce back....
Lawsuit seeks to place limits on fair use appropriation of others' work in art
A controversial lawsuit being waged right now would change the way transformative artists work. A photographer, Patrick Cariou, sued artist Richard Prince, saying that Prince's art is a ripoff of Cariou's photos. The decision in this lawsuit could have far-reaching implications....
Eyebrows raised as Kickstarter touts its increased funding of the arts
Kickstarter, the crowd-funding platform that collects donations for creative projects of all kinds, contributed $67 million to arts projects in 2011. According a Kickstarter founder, the site is on track to distribute more money to the arts in 2012 than the National Endowment for the Arts....
Pop-up Kimchi shop in Germany seeks to help people understand diversity
Two artists in Berlin have setup a Kimchi shop. They're not selling the Korean dish, though. They're bartering for it, and, in the process, hoping to get people talking about issues of diversity and differences....
Famed British cartoonist Ronald Searle dies at 91
British graphic artist Ronald Searle died at the age of 91. Searle was the author of the St. Trinian’s series and was an illustrator for many news publications. ...
Artist spends decades teaching a computer to paint — successfully
Harold Cohen created AARON to paint. AARON is a computer and for 40 years Cohen has been teaching it all the rules of painting so that, today, it can do work that closely resembles that which you might find from a human....
Russia's underground artists have new target: Putin
Russia's protest artists are pioneering new forms of risky, highly public dissent, aimed at mocking Putin, Medvedev and the political class....
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