Category Archives: Art

London Is Getting Messy (pt 1)

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Wednesday artists from art activist group Liberate Tate staged a performance in the Tate Britain on the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over … Continue reading →

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Baudelaire : In His Own Words

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Author and artist John Sokol has created a series of engaging and original portraits of literary greats crafted from the lines of their own novels and poems.

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Art In The Streets

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Art in the Streets is the first significant US museum survey of graffiti and street art. The show traces the historical development of graffiti and street art from the 70s to today’s vibrant, global movement. It focuses mainly on the … Continue reading →

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Gaddafi Murders Art

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Kais al-Hilali, 34 year-old Libyan cartoonist and street artist, was shot and killed by Gaddafi thugs while painting one of his biting cartoons of the dictator for which he was locally celebrated. According to eye witnesses, Hilali had just painted … Continue reading →

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Dimanche est Paresseux

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Brian D. Butler
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At the Intersection of Books & Art

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Eugenie Torgerson is an award-winning illustrator, photographer, writer and book artist whose fantastic three-dimensional objects are based on book and box forms.

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Tolkien vs Sendak (round 1)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  Would you like to see an edition of The Hobbit illustrated by artist Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are fame ? Well, you can’t. It almost happened, but didn’t, and all because that notorious curmudgeon J.R.R. Tolkien … Continue reading →

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Sunday, Why So Random (again)

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Aakash Nihalani is not Banksy

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

hat-tip to Seth Carmichael, publisher of tasj magazine for this post: Aakash Nihalani is fast becoming recognized as one of the US’s most striking emerging installation artists. Celebrated for his ephemeral modifications of the urban landscape throughout the US and … Continue reading →

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Anne Frank and Dutch Book Week

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

thanks to Marthe Dijkstra for this suggestion: Each year the CPNB, or Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, organizes the Dutch Book Week (Boekenweek ) to promote Dutch literature and reading. And every year a specific genre is profiled. This … Continue reading →

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