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POPSNEWSgrist : Joy Garnett Welcome to NEWSgrist NEWSgrist was started in March 2000 as an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age. For four years it was distributed entirely by email subscription. In April 2004 it morphed into a blog. Newsgrist remains dedicated to bridging gaps between the digital and the non-technical, art and activism, the diverse blog and non-blog worlds of readers and subscribers.
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POPStagging the Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/socialTagging.html -- shows tags assigned anonymously to the collection (tags don't seem to be linked to users though PMA has a My Museum / Gallery feature). Tags in the cloud are sized by frequency; the sequencing isn't immediately obvious.
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POPSRoy DeForest Dies My teacher from NYSS.org visiting artist program. Artist Roy DeForest Dies May 21, 2007 Photo: Roy DeForest's portrait, side angle Roy DeForest (from the late '60s-early '70s) Editor's note: Roy DeForest's art can be viewed on campus and throughout the Bay Area. Roy DeForest, who was born into a Nebraska farmworker family during the Great Depression and became one of the most important artists of his generation, died Friday following a brief illness. He was 77.
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POPSIn Japan, When Word Was Wed to Image
The exhibition, organized by Felice Fischer, the Philadelphia museum’s longtime curator of Japanese art, with Kyoko Kinoshita, assistant curator, includes many important loans from Japanese museums — among them several works designated as national treasures — and is accompanied by an excellent and hefty catalog. Taiga’s renown, along with the record-keeping traditions of Japan and the affectionate esteem in which he was held by his fellow artists and students, means that a lot is known about his life, travels, friendships and dealings. Versed in Chinese painting and poetry of all periods, but especially that of the literati artists of the Ming and Qing dynasties; familiar with the reigning schools of official Japanese art; inculcated with Neo-Confucian thought and interested in Daoism and Buddhism, Taiga was exceptionally erudite but not an aesthete; his work often has a visceral directness. He infused his copies of Chinese landscape paintings with a sense of reality gained from ext
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POPShttp://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/is-flickr-trying-to-screw-artists Flickr has been stopping photographs of art work from appearing in public areas and searches because, apparently, photos of art are not photos!! Even many artists who pay for pro accounts have not realised that this has happened to them as it’s hidden in the small print! It all seems rather clandestine as I and many others have not been aware that their photostreams have gone NIPSA (Not in Public Site Areas)! Please read the links below and have a say.
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POPShttp://www.nyss.org/ Founded by students and artists, with a faculty of working painters and sculptors, the School provides students with access to a diversity of attitudes from the most distinguished artists in their fields. The community is united by a quest for quality in art, integrity in and intensity of research. It is a school based on the maxim: “Ambition for the work, not ambition for the career.”
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