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New law proposed in response to art exhibition
San Francisco city commissioner Christine Garcia, who wrote the bill, told The Art Newspaper: “If you allow forums that find this type of work acceptable, more people will produce it and can gain fame from the suffering of animals.” The bill, which is still in the process of being drafted, must go before the city legislature before it can become law.
The proposal comes in response to a recent video installation by Algerian-French artist Adel Abdessemed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) showing the killing of six farm animals. The Art Institute was forced to close the show in late March after only one week when Abdessemed, curator Hou Hanru and staff members received a series of death threats from animal rights extremists (The Art Newspaper, May 2008, p3). The SFAI says that Abdessemed was documenting traditional methods of food production in Mexico and that no gratuitous violence took place to make the videos.
In mid-March, the California-based animal rights group In Defense of Animals, which has testified before the city commission, sent an “action alert” email to 30,000 of its subscribers asking that members demand the immediate closure of Abdessemed’s exhibition.
At the time Okwui Enwezor, dean of academic affairs at SFAI, told us that the exhibition’s sponsors, including the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, had sent letters in support of the show. The same exhibition attracted no protests when it was seen in Grenoble, France, earlier this year but was cancelled by curators in Glasgow in April.
NEW YORK. A committee in San Francisco’s city government has introduced a bill that would allow misdemeanour or felony criminal charges to be brought against any artist or financial backer who causes “the death, abuse or suffering of an animal” when making a work of art.
San Francisco city commissioner Christine Garcia, who wrote the bill, told The Art Newspaper: “If you allow forums that find this type... more -
Artist: Natalie Kocsis
This Current Gallery profiles the work of Brooklyn, New York Artist: Natalie Kocsis http://www.natty.org
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Proposed new law is a nightmare for artists
US Congress is currently debating legislation which will remove the penalty for copyright infringement if the creator of a work, after a diligent search, cannot be located. Libraries and archives are among the groups lobbying for the change to allow copying of so-called “orphan works”. The legislation would allow a rights holder who subsequently emerges to be paid the normal fee, but removes the currently costly statutory damages which rights’ holders can charge.
The term “orphan work” is used to describe situations in which an infringer of copyright decides that he cannot locate the copyright holder—usually the artist in the case of paintings and drawings. In a radical departure from existing law, the US Copyright Office has proposed that Congress grant infringers freedom to ignore the rights of the copyright holder.
The proposal goes far beyond current concepts of fair use, and, as explicitly acknowledged by the Register of Copyrights in a recent congressional hearing, it is not designed to deal with the special situations of non-profit museums, libraries and archives. Rather, it would give carte blanche to infringers even if they wished to exploit an artistic work for commercial advantage.
Under the proposed legislation, if a copyright holder finds out about an infringement after the fact, his only remedy would be to bring a lawsuit in federal court where a judge could order the payment of what he determines would have been paid by “a reasonable willing buyer and reasonable willing seller” before the infringement took place.
This is in sharp contrast to existing law where a copyright holder may obtain a halt to the infringement, the destruction of infringing copies, and damages that may be up to $150,000 for each work of art infringed. This would remove the deterrent that keeps piracy rates at a manageable level.
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Emerging Artists Are A Relative Value
A new era of value equality is unfolding among the worlds' artists. In the case of the price differential between the work of the contemporary 'art stars' and emerging artists, consider for a moment an important influencing factor also found in the stock market: uncertainty. For instance, a company operating in an industry where a key competitor suddenly becomes the subject of an investigation will undoubtedly see its stock price at least temporarily negatively impacted regardless of culpability simply because of investor uncertainty. Lack of knowledge in any industry acts as a damper on value, and let's face it, the famous are such because to date they've received the entirety of the spotlight from the art market apparatchik, hence relatively little is known about those without such support.
However, the internet is THE equalizing factor. In an era where the internet functions as the facilitator of the distribution and promotion of the work of emerging artists from all over the world, the era of the 'art star' deemed such by the critics, curators and self-appointed art experts has come to a necessary end.
In order to assess value and predict the direction of prices with respect to any asset, including stocks, it's instructive to look at comparables. The work of the Old Masters and other dead artists has stood the test of time thus guaranteeing its worth in the form of the stratospheric prices garnered today. What is less clear is the rationale for the difference between the prices paid for the work of many contemporary artists and the much larger group of emerging artists. In any other industry, over time such a relative value disparity would disappear.
Given the increasing recognition of the value of art today, equalization of the prices between discovered and undiscovered artists is inevitable if only because the relative value of the latter is highlighted. In the case of two stocks with equal earnings generating power where the sole exogenous, differentiating factor is the amount of 'coverage' by Wall Street that each receives, the difference in price to the long-term investor highlights the less expensive as a powerful value, and the common sense choice. Yes, the value stock may lack the imprematur of the big Wall Street analysts, but how many times have they overlooked a diamond covered in coal dust? Emerging artists are the greatest investment opportunity that no one has ever heard of. A new era of value equality is unfolding among the worlds' artists. In the case of the price differential between the work of the co... more -
Call For Submissions
We decided that smart is the new pretty. We need smart people like you to submit under the radar content that is smart and perhaps snarky too. Artists, videographers, photographers, pr peeps, bands, writers, designers, anyone! Got something to share? Send us a tip. Contact us at: info@thegrittyandthepretty.com
PS: we are a pro-female and gay friendly site... We decided that smart is the new pretty. We need smart people like you to submit under the radar content that is smart and perhaps s... more -
HAHA. Yo you so would get a kick out of this...
lol. Konichiwa!
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Van Hunt is: Starving Artist
I have been a Van Hunt fan ever since the release of his first single "Down Here in Hell".
He really has a way with words and a voice of an angel. The man has got soul! I just wish he got the plays that he deserves. I tried to get my friends into his music...but they all kind of fall off short. They really don't find the beauty in his music as I do. Seriously, to me he's like prince minus the glam effect meets lenny kravitz heart broken listening to something classic like sly and the family stone. Yeah, big combo i know. This is a link to one of my favorite songs by him: heres some of his other greatness:
1. Turn my tv on
2. SNM
3. Hold my Hand
4. Lowest one of my desires
5. hot stage lights
Sadly, he was on the go for making a third album cut...but it was never released..and how unsatisfied I am.
and please leave responses. i want ur opinion I have been a Van Hunt fan ever since the release of his first single "Down Here in Hell". ... more -
George Carlins last great interview
Heather Havrilesky interviewed George Carlin on Feb. 28, 2008
In this interview he talks about the secret of his success, religion and even the Obama movement.
Do you have any subjects that you regret joking about?
No, not really. I'm very happy with everything that's happened. That's a good way to feel. I've had a very lucky life. I've been very productive as a writer, and I've been able to produce a lot of material. You hear about writer's block and you hear about someone who says, "I have a great 40 minutes and I can't get beyond that." Well, it just turns out that's not my problem. I found that out along the way. Somewhere in the '90s, I found my voice.
In the '90s?
Yeah, I had a voice of sorts until then and it worked fine, but I really kind of matured into a craftsman at that time. But the writing also matured. You know, for many years in interviews I would like to point out that I wrote my own material, because a lot of people don't. Even people who you think write their own material don't. I always pointed that out. But around then, instead of being a comedian who wrote his own material, I was really becoming a writer who performed his own material. It's a very significant shift. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Heather Havrilesky interviewed George Carlin on Feb. 28, 2008 ... more -
TOOL ..Hooker with a penis w/ lyrics
I laid the lyrics out to the song Hooker with a penis by the band TOOL.
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TOOL Jerk-off Live 1992
Heres an amazing and rare video of Tool performing at JC Dobbs in Philadelphia, PA
I would have loved to have seen them back then. I would hate to be the fucker that Maynards pointing at in the end. Heres an amazing and rare video of Tool performing at JC Dobbs in Philadelphia, PA ... more -
an introduction to TOOL
Heres aenima with the lyrics. Its a good introduction to the band if you arent familiar with them.
Also you may have heard the song but never read the lyrics. Heres aenima with the lyrics. Its a good introduction to the band if you arent familiar with them. ... more -
"Dialogue between a painting and its surroundings." Art by Bo LI
about the artist
1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004 and 2005 Participated “ International Art Expo “ held in Shanghai, China . The works were purchased and collected by the collectors of Peking,Shanghai,Hong Kong,Taiwan...etc. 2004 Participated “The Art Fair Zurich “ in Switzerland. All the works were sold out and won a good reputation from the buyers and art collectors. 2006 Participate the “Art Ireland “ and exhibition in the Marziart Gallery Of Germany. 2007 Participate the Artexpo New York 2007 2007 Personal exhibition be hold in Taiwan at March 2007.
artists' statement
I am a professional artist from China. The flower and garden are topic of my artworks. It is the eternal topic for human.The concept behind my work is creating a dialogue between a painting and its surroundings. about the artist ... more -
"Listening to what the mandalas were telling me"
about the artist
David J. Bookbinder was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1951. At age 6, inspired by the launching of Sputnik, he imagined himself a future space scientist. He started photographing in high school where, as yearbook editor, he took most of the candid pictures.
After college, he moved to New York City. There, for several years, he did black-and-white street photography, took pictures of musicians for a book he wrote on American folk music, shot an occasional record album cover, and worked part-time as a photojournalist.
In 2001, after a 20-year hiatus, Bookbinder bought a digital camera and started shooting again. The shift from straight black-and-white, wet-chemistry photography to shooting in color and manipulating images on a computer was literally an eye-opener. Bookbinder still takes pictures of street life, nature, and people, but his current preoccupation is with transforming photographs of flowers, stone, metal, wood, and the sky into mandala-like images.
Bookbinder's early influences included Walker Evans and Diane Arbus. The present work is inspired by the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, the nature photographs of Andreas Feininger, and the flower images of Harold Feinstein, with whom Bookbinder briefly studied.
Bookbinder lives north of Boston, MA. He works as a psychotherapist, primarily with artists and people with addictive behaviors. He is the author of four non-fiction books and is currently writing a memoir of the aftermath of a near-death experience.
artists' statement
My personal motivation in creating these images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. I began this project shortly after I bought my first digital camera and found myself shooting patterns of color and light, rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. The experience of creating these mandalas is reminiscent of meditation.
My choice of the hexagram (the Star of David, "beloved" in Hebrew) as the organizing shape for these mandalas was subconscious, but I believe this choice was no accident. In many traditions, the Star of David, composed of two overlapping triangles, represents the reconciliation of opposites — male/female, fire/water, and so on. Their combination symbolizes unity and harmony. Listening to what the mandalas were telling me led me out of a dark place and, indirectly, to my decision to become a psychotherapist.
Carl Jung, one of the fathers of modern psychology, believed mandalas are a pathway to the essential Self and used them in his own personal transformation. In a small way, as both mandala artist and psychotherapist, I carry on Jung's tradition. I display several of the flower mandalas in my treatment room, and from time to time they become part of discussions with clients. The combination of natural elements and digital manipulation seems both to stimulate and to relax them.
The current selection is part of a book-in-progress that pairs images with inspirational quotations such that each image-and-quote pair resonates with a fundamental aspect of human experience.
I hope publication of these images will further the process of harnessing the power of the mandala to heal. about the artist ... more -
Artist: M. Matarrita
This Current Gallery profiles the work of Harlem, New York Artist: Marthalicia Matarrita http://www.myspace.com/2005war
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How Urban Art is Changing the Art World
How Urban Art is Changing the Art World
The traditional path to art world notoriety has usually included art school followed by showings in galleries, and being noticed and collected by well-known art patrons and eventually museums, with the accompanying media attention to keep it all going. Urban art has by all accounts turned this system on its head and instead of artists praying to start out in galleries they are finding their audience first, literally, out in the open, on the street. From there, with the masses telegraphing their preferences via the internet, the attention-getting artwork then moves into the galleries.
Artists' long-held frustration at often not being able to have their work seen in galleries has, in the case of Urban Art, found an outlet in having unlimited audiences able to view their art, thus propelling it into the galleries. In February, 2008 when Bono's Red auction was held in New York it was Banksy's work that set new price records even in the rarified company of work from some of the art world's most lauded producers. The Tate Modern in London, the world's most visited Modern Art Museum, in May hosted 'Street Art,' an exhibition during which an entire side of its building was utilized by Urban artists.
As accessibility has driven the meteoric rise of Urban Art sales worldwide, the availability of emerging artists' work on facilitating mechanism that is the internet will eventually yield the same trajectory.
Mural: by Rahmaan Static and R.K. Design mural Located at 47th St. and Lake Park, Hyde Park, Chicago, IL
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Capucines Boulevard
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Art by Phototransformation @ CapucinesBoulevard.com
Art by Phototransformations @ CapucinesBlvd.com
My personal motivation in creating these images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. I began this project shortly after I bought my first digital camera and found myself shooting patterns of color and light, rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. The experience of creating these mandalas is reminiscent of meditation.-David Binder Art by Phototransformations @ CapucinesBlvd.com ... more -
A Quick Glance at the Music Scene in Tokyo
Here are some snippets of three bands I caught a bit of at the Tokyo Design Festa
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Yes LA has Artist
The Hermit takes a stroll through an LA art exhibit at the Kristi Engle Gallery in Highland Park.
Silver Lake and Highland Park are becoming a bohemian meeting ground for artist, musicians and even novelist to express themselves in meeting grounds that at one time was only seen in New York. The show was curated by Suzanne Adelman, and boasted some fourteen artist from LA and New York. The Hermit takes a stroll through an LA art exhibit at the Kristi Engle Gallery in Highland Park. ... more -
Ninja Art Show at Gallery Nucleus, California
Ninja Art Show coverage at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California 2007. Interviews with artists Scott Campbell, Arree Chung, Jim Shieh, Phil Craven, Alex Fuentes and Jaime Zollars with Renee hosting! Ninja Art Show coverage at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California 2007. Interviews with artists Scott Campbell, Arree Chung, Jim Shie... more
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Art by Maxim Bondarenko @ CapucinesBoulevard.com
Vincent Van Gogh quote opens for contempary artirst Maxim Bondarenko; art available at CapucinesBoulevard.com
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