Category: Art
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Beautiful Minecraft Coffee Table Book Features Stunning In Game Built Art
Twelve years ago to the day, back in the year 2009 – a Video game called #Minecraft was unassumingly released. The sandbox video game became the second best selling PC-based game in history and was bought by Microsoft for $2.5B usd in 2014. In keeping with our look back celebration, let’s check out this wonderful…
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Worlds Leading Architects Include Sir Norman Foster
Who is Sir Norman Foster? A British born architect world renowned for his ground-breaking interpretations of neo futuristic and post-modern design, that’s who. Perhaps most famously known for designing and constructing “The Gherkin” tower in London, England at a cost of 138 million pounds. This office building is sure to turn the heads of tourists…
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The Greatest Places To See POST COVID Art In The City Of Toronto
If you were to ask a tour guide where to see art in Toronto once the city opens back up post-Covid, they would likely tell you to get tickets for the Art Gallery of Ontario. While the gallery is a wonderful place to see new exhibitions and long-standing collections, it’s not the only spot that…
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No Wonder Thor Is Smiling In Vintage Comics
This time around in comic news we are looking back at the Journey into Mystery comic auction from Heritage Auctions. What made this auction particularly interesting is the fact that pricing was reasonable and grading conditions were meticulous. Not always the case on other online auction sites (E-something, Kiji-something), Heritage Auctions or “HA” take great…
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Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch
Art is, or it should be, about more than simply making marks on a surface or manipulating materials into pleasing–or indeed displeasing–shapes…. perhaps the avant-garde or kitsch. A true artist benefits immeasurably by knowing about the history that has created the universe they traverse. Ever wonder what all that academic talk is that curators like…
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Electronic Opera Uses Physical Spaces To Connect Narrative With Sound
Back in 2005, composer Lewis Spratlan and I began work on an opera inspired by Louis Kahn. Kahn, who excelled in music and once considered becoming a composer, was especially cognizant of how sound works in a physical space. “Space has tonality,” he often said. Kallick, a professor of music at Amherst College, made recordings…
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Coffee Table Book Expands Art Collecting By Including Original Works of Art
Vivant Books brings to the world a very exclusive breed of coffee table book. Their Deluxe Editions are not only fine art coffee table books, but also include collectible works of art at a price most art lovers can afford. A select number of Deluxe Editions contain original artwork by the artist that is featured. Not…
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Unique Guitar Fraternity In Russia Was In Isolation For Seventy Years
Since the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989, the countries of eastern European have exploded in a painful big-bang that has changed the geography of Europe and Asia drastically. The new Russia was born, now being part of the Community of Independent States (CIS) that replaces the former USSR. The guitar fraternity in Russia…
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Philadelphia Artist Goes To Space With Augmented Reality Artwork Initiative
Hello Siloites (Siloers?) my name is David Bradford and I would like to share my art story with you, one involving augmented reality artwork that I have recently activated on the International Space Station and Mars as part of my Go Love Universally initiative. This is the first fine art activation of its kind in terms of…
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Discog’s Most Collected Album Releases Of July Include Canadian Neil Young
PORTLAND, OR. August, 2020: Discogs, the world’s record store, today released its list of the Top 10 Most Popular Records released in July 2020. The following rankings — the 10 most popular albums overall and the 10 most popular albums by genre — are determined by how many people worldwide have added these items to their record…
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Stereo Equip Manufacturer Opens Record Studio To Level The Field
It’s been nearly two years since we moved into our new digs in Boulder, Colorado. The most exciting part has been watching our recording/mastering studio, led by engineer Gus Skinas, come to life. Gus is a close friend and one of the nicest and most humble gents around. The world knows Gus from his work on…
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Alt History Graphic Novel Has Russians On The Moon
Real life: In the 1960’s Communist Russia and the United States were in a race to be the first nation to safely land a man on the Moon. Nicolas Wetterwald’s latest graphic novel mixes the real life with what-if and serves up an enjoying account of an alternate history: one where the USSR beats the…
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Damien Hirst At World’s First Asset-Based Tokenised Contemporary Art Exhibition
LONDON, ENGLAND February, 2020: ‘XXI’, a landmark contemporary art exhibition, will launch at the new, state-of-the-art HOFA Gallery in London’s Mayfair on 20 February 2020. It is set to be the world’s first ever asset-based tokenised contemporary art exhibition, using cutting-edge blockchain technology and cryptography to facilitate access to coveted blue-chip contemporary art. RETNA The highly anticipated highlights of…
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A NEW DECADE FOR PRINCESS DIANA
The decade that just ended was one Princess Diana would have treasured. Both of her sons – Prince William and Prince Harry, married lovely women: Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, respectively. Diana now has 4 grandchildren whom she would have loved and adored. But that was not meant to be. Tragically, she died in a car crash…
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ArtyA “Lion’s Head Timepiece” Combines Classical Engraving With Sculptured Figures
During the medieval Gothic period, depictions of lions were important talismans. A knight wearing a lion’s head on his breastplate or his shield channeled the power and dominance of the King of the Jungle. That’s why Yvan Arpa, CEO of Artya, was looking for the right combination of elements for his new Lion’s Head Tourbillon…
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Set For Library Borrowing- Graphic Classics Adds Acclaimed Works To Digital Editions
MOUNT HOREB, Wisconsin- Graphic Classics, the acclaimed series of comics adaptations of literary classics from publisher Eureka Productions, has had multiple titles included in the Diamond Distribution Core Curiculum List. Of the nearly 100 books on the list, 23 were from the Graphic Classics series, including VOLUME 2: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, VOLUME 4: H.P. LOVECRAFT,…
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Audiobooks Are A Quickly Growing Industry In Canada
Canada is in the midst of an audiobook boom. Though sales numbers aren’t available yet, they’ve been growing rapidly in the United States, and north of the border, there’s been a substantial influx of publishers entering the audiobook market. Why Do Canadians Listen to Audiobooks? What’s behind their growing popularity? It all comes down to…
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Nature’s Power Is Unleashed: Bold New Season At Boca Raton Museum Of Art
The power of nature is unleashed with two timely, powerful exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art for the new season. Both of these original shows ─ Maren Hassinger: Tree of Knowledge and Clifford Ross: Waves ─ will kick off the museum’s 70th anniversary season (on view November 5th – March 1st). The museum is presenting both exhibitions together because the two…
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Finally A Happy, Catch, Easy-To-Remember Anniversary Song
Email Your Performance And Win 1000$ Donation To A Charity Of Your Choice Omaha NE) To celebrate someone’s birthday pretty much anyone can belt out the “Happy Birthday” song, but what to sing in celebration of a couple’s anniversary? How can we ceremoniously honor such an important and personal holiday equally melodiously? Read below and…
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Armstrong’s Heartbeat As Merged Artwork Beamed To Moon
Los Angeles, CA, – Richard Clar using an earth-moon-earth (EME), or moon bounce as it is also called, radioed two very special signals off the surface of the moon where their return was received at Dwingeloo Radio Observatory in the Netherlands. Clar’s extraordinary two-part project, Giant Step and Lune sur la Lune, paid tribute respectively to…
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How Award Winning Math Professor Inspires Students And Family
RAPID CITY, SD- Professor Travis Kowalski starts most days with a squiggle. For the past eight years, the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology math professor has carried on a family tradition started by his father, who would ask the young Travis to make a squiggle on a piece of paper. From that squiggle,…
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Terrace Photographer Captures Sunrise And Sunset From Fourteenth Story
“It’s important in today’s world that we counter all the bad news we read or hear about by savoring positive moments as if our lives depended on it.” So says author/photographer, Kim Weiss, who every days stops to “smell the sunshine” and photographs nature scenes from her 14th story balcony. This daily ritual, now documented…
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You’re Writing A Book So Tell Your Tale, And Tell It Well
You have probably always wanted to write a book. You have probably tried to start writing it several times and gave up. Or maybe you did write it, but it didn’t quite turn out the way you wanted it to. You have most likely been scared and frustrated by the writing process, as well as…
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Once Devastated By Hurricane Irma Now Giving Back
Artist transforms antique hat rack into statement after losing everything from Hurricane Irma.
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Photo Glitch Art Book Is Mysterious And Beautiful
“The growing flow of digital culture depends on the hidden protocols of its underlying systems. To explore how interfacing shapes spectatorship online, this pioneering study pinpoints experiences of flow through the friction of photo-based glitch art by Phillip Stearns, Rosa Menkman, and Evan Meaney. Homing in on the viewer, these three cross-disciplinary case studies present…
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Award Winning Doc The Devil And Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston is not a secret anymore. Thirteen years ago, in 2005, director Jeff Feuerzeig released the Sundance award-winning documentary on Johnston’s life “The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” his songs have been covered by renowned artists like Beck, Tom Waits and The Flaming Lips and he has also been featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial…
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Vision Quest Poetry Inspired By Spirit And Landscape Of Scotland
In her youth, Wendy E. Slater found her greatest gift of expression in poetry- and then went dormant. Years later, on a trip to Scotland, the fount reopened. She had been through a crucible of chronic illness that forever changed her, launching Slater on a quest for meaning and life reexamination. That quest opened a…
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My Road To VR Toronto Art
My name is Olga and I’m a Virtual Reality VR artist/sculptor based in Toronto,Ontario. In 2016 I was hired by Google to create VR experience for YouTube Plus event. This was my first introduction to Google Tiltbrush. I live painted the Toronto skyline in front of hundreds of people. Since then I was involved in…