Thursday, June 29, 2006

Next First Friday

The gallery at Art Lovers Trading Co. will be taking the summer off from First Friday events until September, when the nudes of Larry Bernstein will be featured.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

1 painting every day

1 painting every day: " Jeremiah Palecek of the Czech Republic set out with the intention of making a painting a day on may 8th 2005 after seeing Duane Keisers painting blog. One year later [he] had created 154 new paintings. All paintings are for sale."

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Art gallery loses its head, displays plinth - Yahoo! News

Art gallery loses its head, displays plinth - Yahoo! News: "One of Britain's most prestigious art galleries put a block of slate on display, topped by a small piece of wood, in the mistaken belief it was a work of art.

The Royal Academy included the chunk of stone and the small bone-shaped wooden stick in its summer exhibition in London.

But the slate was actually a plinth -- a slab on which a pedestal is placed -- and the stick was designed to prop up a sculpture. The sculpture itself -- of a human head -- was nowhere to be seen.

'I think the things got separated in the selection process and the selectors presented the plinth as a complete sculpture,' the work's artist David Hensel told BBC radio."

Monday, June 12, 2006

Local boy makes art prints

Segura Publishing thrives in topsy-turvy business:

"The print art world can be a risky place to invest your dollars. Sometimes you win and sometimes you can be financially devastated. Joe Segura, a master printer, artist and owner of Segura Publishing Co. of Mesa, has experienced both the ups-and-downs of the print art industry."

Segura attended SIU in Carbondale.