Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Unconventional Art
Today’s TED playlist exhibits art that transcends the museum wall. These speakers, all artists or creators, talk about their unusual means to remarkable ends. Jonathan Harris creates digital artscapes out of Eskimo feasts, balloon wishes and the Internet’s feelings. Robert Lang revolutionizes a centuries-old paper pastime through simple (or maybe not-so-simple) mathematics. Vik Muniz finds art supplies in unlikely places — dirt, chocolate, diamonds, clouds. Miru Kim explores massive abandoned underground places — and then photographs herself in them, nude, to bring these dark spaces into sharp focus.
http://blog.ted.com/2010/08/11/unconventional-art-todays-tedtalks-playlist/
John Cage and Contemporary Art

BALTIC Curator Alessandro Vincintelli talks to artists Graham Gussin, Katie Paterson and Sam Belinfante about the new Cage Mix exhibition and the influence of John Cage on contemporary art practice.
http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/

Silent Animation

This website gives online access to the UCLA archive of animations from the silent era of cinema. At May 2010, 11 vintage films from 1900 to 1928 are freely available for online viewing. Also available are commentaries from the preservationists involved, film notes, and information on the historical context. A Study Guide is available for download in PDF format. Films are also available for download in either MPEG2 or MP4 format.
http://animation.library.ucla.edu/
Roomle
Roomle is an online design tool which allows you to create floor plans, room layouts and designs simply and easily for free.
http://www.roomle.com/
Digital Comic Museum
Digital Comic Museum is a very large website archive of U.S. comic books known to be in the public domain. As such, it includes a wealth of high-quality scans of vintage comics, freely available for reading. Most comics are from the 1940s and 1950s. Some newspaper comic strips are also included. Files are in the standard CBR (Comic Book Reader) format, for which Comical is possibly the best free viewer. Free registration is required to download the comics, but not to search the website. The Digital Comic Museum will be a valuable resource for those researching the history of comics in the U.S., as well as for those interested in the dynamic hand-made typography of the medium, the depiction of stereotypes during the 20th century, and the ways that the standards and politics of the time were presented to children.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
AdViews

AdViews: a digital archive of vintage television commercials' is an online collection from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The archive contains "thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s ... created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles". Videos can be browsed or searched, and viewed via iTunes service. The archive seems especially rich in animated U.S. adverts from the 1950s and 1960s. It will be useful for those interested in branding, product design, post-war typography, mass media depictions of stereotypes, commercial animation, and the history of advertising in the USA.
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/

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MIT Visualizing Cultures
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).
Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html

RSA Talks and Events
Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts has made available a huge number of downloadable videos and podcasts on its website. Particular subject areas include sociology, politics, economics, design and environment.
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision



Steve Mellor Comics
Samples of 80s comic book work by Steve Mellor.
http://cartoonretro.blogspot.com/search/label/Steve%20Mellor

Archigram Archival Project

The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/

Screen Search Fashion

Screen Search Fashion is an online resource that provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion and dress, as depicted in film from Screen Archive South East (SASE)'s collections. The vast potential of non-fiction film as a resource for students, who are interested in fashion and dress is highlighted by this resource, which has the potential to contribute to dress historians' developing interest in everyday fashions. The site provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion, as depicted in over 200 newly digitised stills and clips, enabling the researcher to discover key aspects of fashion and dress of the period in their historical and design contexts. The site includes links to records in Screen Archive South East's online database, where the films can be explored in further detail.
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/fashion/

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Ten Contemporary Chinese Photographers Show their Work at Sanatorium


ISTANBUL,TURKEY - Sanatorium opened "Passing China: Contemporary Chinese Photographers. This exhibition brings together the work of ten emerging and established artists whose work has been displayed worldwide Chen Qiang, Lian Dongya, Li Wei, Liu Bolin, Maleonn, Miao Xiaochun, Pan Yue, Wang Yiquing, Zuoxiao Zuzhou. Using photography, these artists delve into the conflict between China’s past and future and the plight of the individual caught amidst the transition. On exhibition through 24 April.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-06-00-07-31-ten-contemporary-chinese-photographers-show-their-work-at-sanatorium.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Opens 11th Collection Exhibition

HELSINKI.- In an exhibition, visitors are accustomed to watching, listening and observing art alone and with others. But what happens when the role of an observer becomes more active? What kind of an event is a set-up? Just like contemporary art itself, the 11th collection exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is open-mindedly crossing all kinds of borders. The leading role is given to the artist as well as to the viewer. It’s a Set-up is about the experiential and participatory aspect of art, and considers such themes as time and duration, the presentation and staging of artwork, performance and human relationships.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-05-21-45-21-museum-of-contemporary-art-kiasma-opens-11th-collection-exhibition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image at Museum of Contemporary Art
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of Cory Arcangel, a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in contemporary art. The exhibition Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and will be on view through May 9, 2010.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-05-23-06-02-cory-arcangel-the-sharper-image-at-museum-of-contemporary-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

The Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art database is now available to researchers free of charge via the Getty Institute.
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals.
Link: http://library.getty.edu/bha

Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smarthistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Audio and video conversations about works of art are created, opening up the possibilities of Web 2.0 to create communities and foster collaboration.
Link: http://smarthistory.org/

Wim Crouwel

The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) is a dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making, including an impressive archive of work by Wim Crouwel.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9xtc6e

Whats Happening in the World of Arts and Design 2010

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What Things Do is a new self-publishing platform for comics artists Jordan Crane and Sammy Markham. Several comics can already be freely accessed and read online, with more to follow in the future.
Link: http://whatthingsdo.com/


Victorian Infographics Bibliodyssey.
Link: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html


Antony Gormley
The Tate's website has provided this online resource about the sculptor, Anthony Gormley. This series of videos includes an introduction to Gormley's art by Dr Richard Noble, Visual Arts Department, Goldsmiths College. Four examples of Gormley's work can be explored in individual video files, 'Bed'; 'Natural Selection'; 'Sound II'; and 'Another Place'. Gormley also discusses his work in an online interview. Alternatively the video can be viewed in segments where Gormley answers individual questions: 'Is modern art for everyone?', 'What significance does the body have in 21st century art?' or 'Has being an artist been liberating for you?'
Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/antonygormley/

Marcus du Sautoy on Symmetry
The world turns on symmetry, from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. In the latest TED talk, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects.
Link: http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/symmetry_realit.php



Shakespeare Quartos
The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet. For the first time, all 32 existing quarto copies of the play held by UK and US institutions are freely available online in one place. This initiative is jointly led by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
Link: http://www.quartos.org



Peter Doig
The Tate Britain's website provides this online resource to accompany a retrospective exhibition on the artist Peter Doig, which ran from 5 February to 11 May 2008. This online resource featured selected works displayed in each of the eight rooms of the original exhibition. The online exhibition begins with paintings from his time at the Chelsea School of Art 1989-1990, when his landscapes were unlike anything else in the London art scene at this time. It continues with selected works providing a comprehensive overview of his work to date, and tracing his recurrring motifs and his approach to image-making. A video is provided in which the artist guides the visitor around his exhibition, and other resources show the works by Doig in the Tate collection, and an article from the Spring 2008 issue of Tate Etc on Doig and his artwork.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/peterdoig/rooms/

Design for a Living World
The Nature Conservancy's Web site provides information on their project 'Design for a Living World'. Ten designers, including Ted Muehling, Kate Spade, Ezri Tarazi and Maya Lin, were invited to create new objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Photographs illustrating how the materials used by the designers connect to real people and real places, and are included in the sections on each designer. The Web site is organised under place, ranging from Australia to China; materials used for each item and the designer. A slide show for the object or for the designer are accessed via hyperlinks. There are video interviews with each designer. The exhibition will be held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York from 14 May 2009 to 4 January 2010.
ink: http://www.nature.org/design