ArtPrize

ArtPrize is the world's largest art competition, open to any artist and decided by public vote. This blog is a collection of ideas, links, images, and quotes selected by the designers of ArtPrize.

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‘Can art save cities?’ My first answer immediately is, no. Obviously, no. It’s almost like, [at one time] engineers were expected to save us, and look where we are now, one generation later. Why put it in the lonely artists’ hands? That being said, perhaps I would like to be part of the attempt. The difference, I think, is not saying, ‘can art save cities?,’ but ‘can we save cities?’ Is it worthy to save cities? Then it takes a whole learning curve and analysis of the situation from all the varied disciplines that would have to come into play.

Interview with Mel Chin, ArtPrize 2013 Grand Prize Juror

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(via Thing Thing - Traveling Plastic Factory - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Herman Melville, born on this day in 1819, in Hawthorne and His Mosses. Pair with this the fantastic Fail Safe and Oprah’s Harvard commencement address on failure and finding your purpose.  (via explore-blog)

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Walker Art Center's The Internet Cat Video Festival is Coming to ArtPrize!

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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

Andy Warhol on Coca-Cola

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(via Louise Rauh - Aluminum vessels - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Jesse Berlin - Phocomelic Child and Prosthetic Limb Apparatus - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via David Kostreva - The Soul of Man - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Zachary Copfer - Bacteriography - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Danielle Rante - Chasing Ice - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Joanna Manousis - Veil - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Mary Gaynier - Alien Weed - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Chelsea Younkman - Job Fair - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Tom Panei - Sacrifice - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Tim Stoelting - Architectonic - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)

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(via Melissa Dorn Richards - Salt - ArtPrize Entry Profile - A radically open art contest, Grand Rapids Michigan)