Stomping Grounds @lisalooksout - Tumblr Blog

Nasher Sculpture Center Resculpts the Line Between Artifact and Art

Image credit: Shutterstock Are 800,000-year-old tools from North Africa sculptures? The Nasher Sculpture Center, a Dallas-based museum, certainly thinks so. The museum is currently displaying Paleolithic stone artifacts that are so old they were created by a different species. The exhibition, titled “First Sculpture,” is a curated collaboration between anthropologist Dr. Thomas Wynn and artist…

View On WordPress

#art #artifacts #axes #Dr. Thomas Wynn #Nasher Sculpture Center #Tony Berlant

Welcome to the Age of the Crypto Art Auction

Photo credit: Shutterstock What happens when the world of cryptocurrency and fine art collide? One company is exploring what it might be like to bring the two things together. Paddle8, a company that describes itself as “the auction house for the 21st-century collector,” is taking a cheeky approach as they enter the world of bitcoin. How so? They’ve planned an online auction event for August…

View On WordPress

#auction #Bidcoin #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #Paddle8 #The Native

When Art History and Tech Collide

Photo credit: Shutterstock Have you seen the new craze? It’s all over Instagram and Facebook. People from around the world are using Google’s free museum app to find their art history doppelgängers! Google’s Arts and Culture app has been around since 2016. Originally, the app let users browse an immense database of artwork images collected from museums worldwide. The app only recently went viral…

View On WordPress

#Arts and Culture app #facial recognition #Google #museum #paintings #social media

The History of Multimedia Art

The “Klimt Experience,” a multimedia art exhibit based on the works of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Photo credit: Paolo Bona / Shutterstock Multimedia art is a sophisticated art form that combines two or more of the following creative formats: drawing, painting, sculpture, audio, literature, digital, or performance. It has become immensely popular in recent years, as evidenced by the growing…

View On WordPress

#Bob Goldstein #intermedia #multimedia art #Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)#Undocumented Stories

What Role Does Art Play in Satire?

Image credit: Shutterstock Some satirical forms, such as political cartoons, have long been walking the line between satire and art. This begs the question: Does art take itself too seriously? Furthermore, is there any room for silliness in contemporary art? At Comfort Station in Chicago, Illinois, a group exhibition titled “Play the Fool” doesn’t leave these questions open-ended. The answer is…

View On WordPress

#art #Ben McElroy Fuqua #Chicago #Play the Fool #satire

Hurricane Irma Debris Turned into Art

The aftermath of Hurricane Irma.Photo courtesy of Bree McGhee via Flickr CC. They say every cloud has a silver lining. In this case, even the darkest of billows have one. No one embodies this philosophy more than Laura Baker, who has used the devastation of Hurricane Irma as inspiration for her art. Baker, who is a woodturner, crafts vases, bowls, and other decorative pieces out of the debris…

View On WordPress

#Gold Coast Woodturners #Hurricane Irma #Laura Baker #Ron Purnell #woodturner #woodturners

Los Angeles Named America’s Art Hub

Image: Shutterstock New York City took a demotion yesterday, after Richard Florida of CityLab crowned Los Angeles the new art capital of the U.S. The Big Apple has been at the center of America’s art industry since god-only-knows-when; so naturally, New Yorkers aren’t taking the news lightly. Los Angeles’ newly acquired title is based off economic data that suggests the city has the largest…

View On WordPress

#art capital of the U.S.#CityLab #Los Angeles #new york #Richard Florida

Connecting Ancient Art with Modern Audiences Via Technology

Image credit: Shutterstock Even in historical art, technology is never very far away. As part of the de Young’s “Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire” exhibition, for example, 14-year-old Minecraft aficionado Trevor Fox helped produce a digital map that lets visitors virtually walk through the city. In fact, the de Young has several exhibitions running right now that use technology and a…

View On WordPress

#City of Fire #de Young #Minecraft #technology #Teotihuacan: City of Water #the Dead Need Music #The Maori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand #The Propeller Group: The Living Need Light #Thom Weisel

Stolen Painting Worth $165 Million Recovered After 32 Years

Photo credit: Shutterstock A Houston man has unknowingly incriminated his deceased aunt and uncle in one of the greatest art heists in U.S. history. Ron Roseman is still in shock after learning that his favorite aunt and uncle, Rita and Jerome “Jerry” Alter, were likely behind the theft of a $165 million painting. “I just can’t imagine that they would,” said Roseman. “That wasn’t the aunt and…

View On WordPress

#$165 million #Manzanita Ridge Antiques #painting #Ron Roseman #stolen #University of Arizona’s Museum of Art

Thief Returns Stolen Art

Photo credit: Shutterstock In a bizarre turn of art-related events, a woman was recently caught on video mailing stolen art back to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The two photographs, valued at $105,000, went missing from MoMA PS1 in Long Island on October 30. They were returned via mail the following Friday. The woman who appears to have stolen them was witnessed at a FedEx store in…

View On WordPress

#Alanna Heiss #FedEx #Institute for Art and Urban Resources #MoMA #Museum of Modern Art #stolen art

“Send Me Art” Makes SFMOMA Collections More Accessible Than Ever

Photo credit: Shutterstock Can’t make it to the art museum? No problem! SFMOMA has a clever new way of giving you access to the art you’d like to see. Their “Send Me Art” program allows anyone with a phone to text the museum the phrase “Send me” followed by an emoji or written phrase (i.e., “Send me cats”) and receive an image of a piece of art from one of the many SFMOMA collections. Someday…

View On WordPress

#Jay Mollica #Keir Winesworth #Send Me Art #SFMOMA #text #Thom Weisel

It’s Not Just Hollywood; Sexual Harassment Alive and Well in New York’s Art Scene

Photo credit: Shutterstock After the Weinstein scandal broke, scores of women came forward about their experiences with sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. But the problem isn’t only confined to Hollywood. This past Wednesday, Artforum magazine publisher Knight Landesman resigned after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him. The lawsuit alleges that Landesman victimized at…

View On WordPress

#Amanda Schmitt #Artforum #Knight Landesman #New York&039;s art scene #sexual harassment #Weinstein

Street Art Goes Commercial

West Los Angeles street art.Photo credit: Hayk_Shalunts / Shutterstock Street art is a controversial topic; some view it as vandalism while others view it as craftsmanship. But instead of condemning the practice, perhaps New York City ought to take a few pointers from Los Angeles. An increasing number of businesses in LA are reaching out to artists and asking them to create art that encourages…

View On WordPress

#businesses #Colette Miller #graffiti #LA #Los Angeles #street art

Feeling Uncomfortable? Good.

Image credit: Shutterstock As odd as it sounds, there are a lot of good reasons to spend some time with art that makes us uncomfortable. Pushing boundaries can change the way we think about the world and each other. Whether it makes us consider our social responsibility, work on our ability to really observe, or just make us laugh at the absurdity, uncomfortable art does us a service. At the last…

View On WordPress

#Amy Herman #art #Miki Johnson #PNCA #Savanna Youngquist #uncomfortable

Today Marks the Grand Opening of Africa’s First Contemporary Art Museum

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.Photo credit: Frank Gaertner / Shutterstock After more than ten years in the making, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa has finally opened. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the museum is an architectural masterpiece with strong historical roots. Built at the site of a 1920s grain silo, the museum has 42 concrete tubes protruding from its…

View On WordPress

#atrium #Cape Town #silo #South Africa #Thomas Heatherwick #Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art from Africa

The Quinquennial documenta* Art Exhibition

A photo taken at documenta. Photo credit: Diane Chehab The first documenta took place in Kassel, Germany in 1955 as a means to bring Germany back into a dialogue with other nations after World War II. The Kassel painter and academy professor Arnold Bode (who had been banned from practicing art in 1933) was the founder of this exhibition. One of his goals was to show 20th century art and connect…

View On WordPress

#Arnold Bode #documenta #Fridericianum #Germany #Kassel #quinquennial

de Young Offers a Peek into Regional Art

The De Young Museum, located in San Francisco.Photo credit: Shutterstock San Francisco’s de Young Museum has been part of the city since 1895, connecting visitors with art from around the world. Particularly since its redesign in October of 2005, it’s been a welcoming way to experience regional art, in particular art that originated in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. Several of its upcoming…

View On WordPress

#Beyond the Surface: Worldwide Embroidery Traditions #City of Fire #de Young Museum #Revelations: Art from the African American South #Teotihuacan: City of Water #Thom Weisel

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

Stomping Grounds