Great online art gallery

I first found the Diane Farris Gallery when I was looking at work by Gu Xiong back in 2007. Revisiting it just now, I was delighted to find that not only is that artist's web page still maintained, although his last exhibit there was in 2005, but all the artists represented by the gallery, or at least the ones I looked at, have very, very good artist's pages. The first exhibit by Gu Xiong shown is from 1996 and there are good-sized photos of his work from that year.

The first online exhibit listed under Past Exhibitions is from 1998, but from the Artist's page you can find exhibition photos going back to at least 1990; see Attila Richard Lukats, for instance. I really, really like this site. It shows that the gallery not only wants to sell work by the artists it represents, but they're willing to put effort into presenting and preserving an online presence that is of high quality.

Wild Iris, Maine | Paul Strand | Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand | Photographs | Collection Database | Works of Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Wild Iris, Maine Paul Strand Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand Photographs Collection Database Works of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mention the detail, especially on Strand's work - around Work 73

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Magritte and Contemporary Art at LACMA

Although the René Magritte exhibit at LACMA was not all that long ago (2006-2007), that can be a very long time as far as archiving of exhibits goes on the Web. To the gallery's credit, most of the "Related Links" at the bottom of the exhibit page are still active. I found the LA Times review after searching on Google, but it is painfully full of ads, most of them for Salvador Dali paintings for some reason, or for something even less relative, depending on when you look.

The Wikipedia entry for Magritte is quite good, with a good selection of images of his art, even if they are low-resolution. The external links for the entry are mostly useful, especially the one for Magritte at Artcyclopedia which has lots of links to art galleries with Magritte collections.

An excellent site is the Musée Magritte Museum in Brussels, which offers not always easy to follow trails to entries about the artist's background and pictures of his art. MoMA has eleven images of Magritte's art and descriptions of some of those. None of the sites I found, except for some linked through Artcyclopedia, had images that could be enlarged, which I think is a real shame - I want to examine his work in detail.

MOMA Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionist New York at MOMA

Reviews, etc. at Hyperallergic

Nova Scotia Historical  Newspapers
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management - Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management - "The Way We Were': Nova Scotia in Film, 1917-1957"

Check out some of the papers and film first

Art Collection of the Walters Art Museum

Art Collection of the Walters Art Museum

Look at the different collections, especially the manuscripts

Mark Lewis

Mark Lewis

This site has videos of the artist's work going back to 1995 - check. When did he stop using sound?
Wonderful artist's site. Google for other info.

Is it Muybridge or is it Watkins?

I had never heard of Carleton Watkins until I read a Hyperallergic post (I subscribe through Google Buzz) about Edweard Muybridge which led to a blog on the subject (what subject?) by Tyler Green. Green provides a link to the Watkins site and also to Calisphere at the University of California. To see Muybridges images at this site, you have to do a search on his name, since he isn't listed in the A-Z list.

Look at this site and see what else is there. Also check Wikipedia entries for Watkins and Muybridge.

Early Experiments Online

Early Experiments Online: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Found this through a note on the Guggenheim's Facebook page.

Look up Lialina

Of online magazines and crocheted food

HandEye magazine's online site could use a little editing of links and especially of it's list of resources. The links are a bit inaccurate in places but many of them work and when they do, they lead to some really interesting sites.

For instance, after some skipping around the magazine site looking for good links, I found an article about Mata Ortiz pottery makers. There are two links, one with an hyperlink, and one without. The first one, to Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery, is to a wonderful gallery site. Not only do they show work from the Casas Grandes Pueblo, where the Mata Ortiz pottery is from; they also show "the best of Southwest Native American pottery". And they show it very well. There are lists by pueblo and by artist, and each piece can be magnified for a very close view. This is very expensive craft work and the gallery does an excellent job of exhibiting it online as it should be shown.

The second site, the one without a hyperlink so I had to cut and paste into my browser, is to l'aviva home. This web site is really quite nice although I didn't find anything about Pueblo pottery. I'm guessing that this is because the exhibits change and there is no archive. What I did find that I liked was the page on shyrdak, a method of felt-making done by the Kyrgyz people of Kyrgyzstan. Here I found a link back to an HandEye article about shyrdak rugs so now is a good time to get back to why I found HandEye magazine in the first place.

I subscribe to Surface Design Association's Facebook page. They recommended an HandEye article about making art cloth. I explored the magazine archives and found a piece about Kate Jenkins' crocheted food. I clicked the link at the bottom of the page, which was a bad link, by the way, and then I searched for the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London, England, and found this wonderful exhibit with really good pictures of Kate Jenkins' crochet work.

So I think this is enough web-rambling for now.

If Fra Bartolommeo had painted in shades of grey ...

then his painting wouldn't have looked like this.

This image is of a picture I printed onto cloth using acrylic transfer. It's my second try and I actually listened to the instructions this time. As you can see if you click on the image and then enlarge it, there are spots where I didn't get all the paper rubbed off (the child's foot on the left, for instance) and spots where I rubbed too hard - many of them. I scanned in the finished image and it actually reproduced quite well. The violet colour in the background is intentional; the cloth was dyed using wet tissue paper over the cloth before I printed onto it. I was pleased to find that the colour didn't fade while I was rubbing at the paper and splashing on quite a lot of water.

Although I knew about the method of transferring images using acrylic get, I wasn't motivated to try it until I took a class from Ken Flett. The class was in Bear River, Nova Scotia, not Port Alberni, B.C., and covered other subjects as well.

As for the painting, it came from "The National Gallery [Trafalgar Square] Illustrated Catalogue", published in 1908. My copy is without a cover, and is pretty tattered. Google Books has a few copies but there are no previews at all. An earlier edition, "Illustrated catalogue to the National gallery. Foreign schools", so not the same paintings at all, is there with full text. They are neat books to look through, if only to make you want to see the original painting. 

The picture in the book I have was titled "Virgin and Child, with St. John". I found a copy on the National Gallery web site after much searching, once I figured out that the title was incorrect in the catalogue. Here it is, in full colour. There is really good magnification, showing the background much better than my copy does. This website is an excellent art site by the way; there are many, many very good images of paintings, including 27 by Rembrandt.

Artnet.com - not just an art auction site

At first glance, Artnet.com seems like one huge art auction site, showing off highest prices paid and advertising galore. But it is a wonderful site for wandering around, finding all sorts of good information about art and artists.

You just have to be committed to clicking with curiosity. For instance, this last time I visited the site, I clicked on "Events" on the top 'links' bar. I was presented with art events from all over the world. From this overwhelming list, I chose The Pervasive View: Vintage Prints from the National Geographic Image Collection, which is Artnet's listing for this photography exhibit. Their page has only one photo, but clicking on the "Gallery Info" tab finds a page of useful information about the gallery - this is not always the case with 'info' pages - and a link to the Gallery webpage.

The Stephen Bulger Gallery, which held this exhibit, is one of those private galleries which actually provide good images from their shows, and plenty of them. One annoying thing is the "This is the property of ..." message which pops up if you click on the picture. It's an appropriate notice of ownership of the image but the little 'ding' sound gets really annoying very quickly.

As for Artnet, I noticed that one of the auctions was for work by Victor Vasarely, whose art I really like. The Artnet page for Vasarely has pictures of "114 artworks for sale" plus thousands of past auction results and a good biography, in addition to all sorts of auction information and links to five exhibitions of his work. More than enough to keep you busy for hours, and that is only one artist.

Then there's the magazine which has lots more stuff as well as Artnet TV which was showing Gilbert & George today (and, incidentally, has an archive going back to 1996). All in all, Artnet is really more than just an auction site, with a wealth of art-related information, and more important, many very good images of art.

Vik Muniz

Vic Muniz' website

Explain how it works

Louise Bourgeois

MOCA exhibition or do a search on their site.

Guggenheim exhibit
obit at NYT
Did I do another post about her?

One thing leads to another

Sometimes I wonder about those Google ads that show up in the sidebar. They often don't seem to have anything to do with my posts. Then I saw that one was really quite astonishingly relevant. This is an artist who I had never heard of before and just yesterday she showed up in a post from MoMA on Facebook. 'She' is Yayoi Kusama (her Wikipedia entry is here). The ad link was to her page at New People Artists Series, which is a set of videos of Japanese artists.


The video at YouTube - and for a change, the related videos that show up at the end of this video are actually about Yayoi Kasuma.

I love odd little coincidences!

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

The images can be magnified although the quality is not great

Jeff Bridges + Scott Cooper - Dialogues - Moving Image Source

Have I blogged this before?

Web projects list Living Room Candidate.

Art Magazine online - artnet Magazine

Art Magazine online - artnet Magazine

Note this for last entry in drafts - videos are about halfway down the page and archive is available from two writers(?)

Some are available on YouTube - Nicole's - artnet2007

Donald Judd Foundation - Library

Donald Judd Foundation - Library

Try looking at again to get an idea of how it really works.

First found out about it via Facebook entry from MOMA

Shomei Tomatsu and other multimedia at SFMOMA

If I hadn't known that the Shomei Tomatsu online exhibit, Skin of the Nation, existed somewhere on the SFMOMA site I would never have found it again. All the URLs I'd saved back in 2007 are now pretty well useless. The one link I found to the exhibit has no hint that there is multimedia still present for this exhibition.

I found the way there by doing a search  for Tomatsu on the main SFMOMA page and then clicking on 'Multimedia'. The interactive feature is the first item on the list. Once you find it, the online exhibit is very good, although it's easy to lose your place. Images can be magnified and there are little audiovisual popups for many of  them. There are also links on the first page to podcasts relating to this artist.

I finally figured out that there was a link to Mulitimedia under the "Explore Modern Art" tab on the main SFMOMA page. Once you click on that site, you can explore and find a wealth of resources. Interactive features go back to 1998, video to 1995, and audio with still images to 2000. Most (maybe all) videos have accompanying text as well, so you can follow along with the spoken word. And there are usually links to other pages about the artists you're interested in.

Radical Software

http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/index.html

Check a few of the entries and blog about them as well as the whole journal.

Found out about it through Art21 http://blog.art21.org/2010/04/23/beryl-korot-radical-software-1970-74/
and then Googled the magazine.

Watch the video again, it is more about TV than computer

Just a little vector art

I've promised myself that if I ever get around to using the many computer graphics programs I've bought over the years, I'll post the results, no matter how amateur they are.

The following vector art started out as a photograph of an hibiscus plant in my front yard.

First I imported it into CorelDraw X5 (I started buying the program back at version 4) and then I used the Trace tool for my first attempt at making a vector graphic from the photo, using the clip art setting.

I deleted the background bit by bit and did some serious editing to get rid of a bunch of lines that were created in the tracing process. Then I started thinking that I should be able to make a graphic that looked a bit more like the flower in the picture. So I tried the higher quality trace setting, deleted the background again after finding out how to do it more quickly, and then finally figured out how to get rid of the lines without too much fiddling.

Don't know what I'm going to do with the flower yet, except use it as a profile photo on Facebook, but I'm happy with the results.

On another subject, the Nova Scotia Archives has put the Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers online. The images are of newspapers from 1769 to 1991. It's sort of neat to read news from so long ago (or not so long ago) and see how little or how much things have changed.

KCRW, Podcasts, and Edward Goldman

According to their 'about' webpage "KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news, information and cultural programming." I'm listening to 'Morning Becomes Eclectic" right now, the "Mad Professor" show from April 14, 2010 (not my thing so I switched to "The Low Anthem" from March 25). What's good about this show is that the music choices are eclectic as the title says so you get to find something you might like. On the main KCRW website, you can also choose to listen to whatever is currently playing.

What is really great is that most of KCRW's programs are offered as podcasts. One of the shows I subscribe to from iTunes is ArtTalk, hosted by Edward Goldman. What is bliss to me is that the shows are available back to April 22, 1997 in RealAudio from the website, although the site seems to indicate an earlier start date of January 1, 1990. Sadly, iTunes carries only the latest 10 episodes.

On the website archive, there are transcripts going back around nine years. Links to outside websites start late in 2001 but they are not always reliable, given that art museums and galleries update their sites without always providing forward linking from old URLs. I found at least one that pointed to another type of site altogether, so proceed with care.

As time went on, the linkage got much better, including images of the art work discussed, so that you can listen to the podcast, read the transcript, and take side trips to see the art. What I like about Edward Goldman is that he actually likes art, and he's a pretty good critic with definite opinions on what he likes and dislikes. And the podcast pages allow viewers to discuss his reviews.

Computer Art

Gallant Apparatus http://gallantapparatus.com/
If it still exists, explain how it works - three windows or doors to go through. Look up Yayoi Kusama and Mitch Trale, the artist http://mitchtrale.com/

MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

MOCA's First Thirty Years

Can be explored from the home page by image/artist or from the list at the bottom of the page

MoMA | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2010 | Henri Cartier-Bresson

MoMA Interactives Exhibitions 2010 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Did I already enter?
Probably don't need the # in the URL

Musée du Louvre

Check past exhibitions - earliest one I found with full site was from 2005 - Romanesque France at the time of the First Capetians (987-1152)  The text is not in English and the site has some problems - no back button, but the images are great. Main English site 

Site of exhibit that brought me here Holy Russian exhibition

Haunted at the Guggenheim

Haunted is a web exhibit. How do they show their regular exhibits - past and present? And why is their no link back to the main Guggenheim site.

Mention their Facebook page.

Chinese art

ArtSpeak China

Through their Facebook page I won a Sotheby's "China Rising" catalogue for correctly identifying one of the artists, Wang Xieda, at StudioDoor China as being compared to Giacometti.

Link to his page, if I can. Find out more about him and also Giacometti. And describe the book.

Archived exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery

The Anton Kern Gallery has a website that represents its artists well, and also provides photos from past exhibitions as far back as 1996. Not every listed exhibit had images when I first looked a few years ago, but there are at least a few for each show now, as far as I could tell. The newer exhibits have press releases as well, and more images from each exhibit. One odd thing that I found was that if I started going through the pictures using the arrows by the numbers to the left, I was shown the images in sequence, but if I clicked on the photos themselves, I was taken to the pictures from the current exhibition. It's easy enough to get back to where I was, but annoying just the same.

I first found out about this gallery through a New York Times review by Michael Kimmelman,  Pulp Nonfiction, Ripped From the Tabloids, of  Enrique Metinides' show there from December 1, 2006 to January 13, 2007. Metinides is a Mexican news photographer with an incredible eye for taking a striking shot of a crime or an accident. The Wikipedia entry doesn't have much information about this photographer but a Google search found this video (with ads) at VBS.tv of him describing and showing his work.

Mummy wrap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/collections/72157623365700896/
Mummy wrap at Brooklyn Museum for upcoming exhibit The Mummy Chamber - no info yet.

Embrace! this

Embrace! at the Denver Art Museum is an exhibition that has a very thorough web presence. There are seventeen artists with work on display, and each has a separate webpage. On the ones I checked there were descriptions of the exhibit, info about the artist, and, best of all, photos of the installation of each piece of art, with lots of details of the nitty-gritty of installation.
Past exhibitions Check how far back full webpages are present. Even older ones have some good pictures.

The Living Room Candidate

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008 is one of the web projects at the Museum of the Moving Image, which "advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media"[1].  The exhibitions page doesn't really lead to much online content but searching the collection can lead to some interesting finds, once you click on the "Collection Catalog" tab. You don't really have to know what you're looking for to find things. For instance, selecting 'boxes' in the 'artifact class' dropdown and 'any' in the 'collection category' and then clicking search finds four objects, or three, depending on how you look at it. All images can be magnified and are quite clear as long as you wait a few seconds.

Clicking around the site can lead to some exciting finds. I clicked on Moving Image Source on the web projects page, and found, among many others, an interview with Melvin Van Peebles which I listened to as I typed this blog. Then under Sloan Science and Film I found dozens of short films. And there are lots of other things, but I'll leave those for you to find on your own.

1. See "General Information" at http://www.movingimage.us/site/about/index.html where there is also a short video describing the Museum.

Performance art by radio

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/evidence_movement/index.html

Look at and comment on some of the radio broadcasts. They can all be listened to, not all downloaded and some can are podcasts. Note the artists involved.

Collections at the Rhode Island School of Design

The Rhode Island School of Design doesn't provide any extra content for it's exhibitions, past or present. What it does show on its web page is some excellent images of some of the 84,000 or so items in its collections. There isn't an introductory page for the collections, so you usually start off with the "Costume/Textiles" section and explore from there. The Contemporary Art display is the only one with a good number of objects but what is marvellous about those that are shown is that they can be magnified and the full images have very good detail.

I would hope that in the future RISD develops a more comprehensive website that shows more of its excellent collections.

Ed Bing Lee

Video at Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Check some of their links.

Link on Lee's page is incorrect - check again,

Hiraki Sawa

Podcasts at Hirshhorn - see podcasts page for other audio and video
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/podcasts/podcast_58.mp3
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/podcasts/podcast_59.mp3
His website http://www.softkipper.com/
Better access http://www.softkipper.com/work/index.htm
Do Google search for more uptodate info

Exploring Art Nouveau

The first page for this exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, is very plain and you could almost miss the link to "Related Online Resources" at the bottom of the page. This link takes you to an interim page where the 'good links' start. I learned not to click on "Exhibition Overview" since that takes you back to the beginning. Considering that this exhibition ran from October 8, 2000 - January 28, 2001, this is a very well-maintained website for the most part.

The two sections which include an amazing amount of material are " Exhibiton Feature" and "Teaching Art Nouveau, 1890-1914". These resources have yet more links, all worth following if you appreciate Art Nouveau.

One feature that I didn't find was extensive biographies of the artists involved. Since my favourite Art Nouveau artist is Charles Rennie MacIntosh, I've included the Wikipedia link provided by Zemanta as well as the one they provided for Art Nouveau.

The Victoria and Albert Museum also showed this exhibit. I couldn't find their web page for it although their past exhibits go back to to 2000. Using their search box will find some good material though.

National Museum of the American Indian, etc.

Image via Wikipedia

The National Museum of the American Indian
Exhibitions page

Among the past exhibitions is Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World

Fix how this pic displays.

Through the artist's pages I found Nadia Myre's homepage which has some wonderful examples of her art.


I found out about this exhibit through the exhibition page at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Their pages don't show much of the art but there is some interesting audiovisual material.

AwnTV

http://www.awntv.com/

Don't seem to have an archive so mention one of the videos from my email list for 2008