If artists like Erin Stack get her way “Green” will paint the new color of art. Some people build solar panels, some put together sustainable buildings, and others like Erin Stack put a whole new spin on art and activism. Erin is an artist and her medium is trash. She takes her passion for [...]
Six teams from six different high schools were invited to Project Installation, a reality-type concept where teams were pitted against one another in a race to create art. They spent the night of Feb. 26th locked away in the Wiregrass Museum of Art, with only twenty-four hours available to create their piece. Imani Purcell, a [...]
Yesterday, the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio held a free screening of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a documentary film by long-time hip-hop fan, Byron Hurt. This film was one of the official selections of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and is a very personal journey beyond the bling, which strives to paint a well-rounded picture of the complex blend of masculinity, sexism and homophobia [...]
The 7-foot-1, 325 pound, Shaquille is an all-star veteran who not only plays professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, but is also a reserve police officer in Miami, a movie star (Kazaam), a rapper, and now, a rookie art curator. The exhibit, “Size DOES Matter,” is open for display at the Flag Art Museum in [...]
A trend now sweeping the nation is the arrogance of ignorance; in other words, more and more people are proud to be stupid. And, though there are several groups expressing their disgust with the newest MTV pop sitcom, Jersey Shore, the majority of Americans embrace the death of art with shaved arms. The broadcast company [...]
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Lady Gaga appears twice on Nielsen SoundScan‘s list of the top ten best-selling singles of the past decade: “Just Dance” came in second place with 4.6 million copies, and “Poker Face” moved a respectable 4.2 million units. Sure, her form of music is absolutely popular, but, what is Pop Art, and could it be considered [...]
A recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit wants everyone to care less about what art means and more about what it inspires. Their vision uses abstract art to instill emotion, and not to stoke an onslaught of questions; therefore, out of the who, what, where and why of things, all that anybody [...]
At a Sotheby‘s Auction in London, a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man walking by Alberto Giacometti fetched $103.4 million for the seller, Dresdner Bank AG, which exceeds Picasso’s “Garcon a la Pipe” (Below) by a deafening $300,000. And this excessive heap of cash wasn’t an isolated event, it was merely another piece of evidence supporting [...]
In March 2009, a masked thief made off with sixteen paintings from the Somerset property in Bruton. When police arrived the following day, they found a forty-seven-year-old woman tied up in the museum at 1600 GMT. They reported such revered titles as An Italian Peasant Boy by Richard Buckner, A grey pony in a stormy [...]
