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Art History Lessons for Kids
Claire d’Harcourt’s oversize bright orange children’s book, Art Up Close: From Ancient to Modern, is a wonderful and interactive way to teach children how to look at art and engage them in the history of art. Disguised as a Where’s Waldo type game, the book travels through history with 23 full-color reproductions of the world’s […]
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Tags: art history, Art Up Close, children's art books, Clair d'Harcourt
By Emily Waldorf Have you ever felt intimidated by hanging artwork yourself and thought that you needed to hire a professional installer? It is actually surprisingly straight-forward to hang your own artwork as long as you do your homework beforehand and use extra special care. Plus, there is no time like a recession to learn […]
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Tags: All The Best, Apartment Therapy, Domino, frame art, hang art, Homekeeping Handbook, how to, Kate Spade, Martha Stewart, Peak of Chic, recession, rock star, Style Court
On Sunday, May 16, 2010, from 10am – 2pm, the Hammer Museum is holding its exciting inaugural Kids’ Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.) featuring a family friendly day of interactive art-making workshops led by an impressive roster of L.A. artists. All proceeds of the event benefit Hammer Kids’ free public programs. All of the projects are […]
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Tags: art, art projects, Breckin Meyer, Edgar Arceneaux, Elliott Hundley, Hammer Museum, Hilary Swank, Jodie Foster, K.A.M.P., kids, kids programming, Laura Owens, Los Angeles, Mark Grotjahn, Soo Kim
Click here to listen to Emily Waldorf’s talk on the power of combining blogging and the arts and how you can harness new media platforms to get closer to your own personal and professional goals. Slides The talk covers the following central aspects of blogging and new media: The rise of new media as a […]
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Tags: arts, blogging, celebrity culture, link love, new media, page rank, SEO
by Emily Waldorf On January 22nd, I attended a panel called “The Fine Art of Collecting Fine Prints” at the Los Angeles Art Show. The panel was moderated by curator Michele Deziel and included Collectors/Curators/Writers, Reba and Dave Williams and Kevin Murphy, PhD, Associate Curator of American Art at the Huntington Art Collections. Here is […]
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Tags: collecting fine prints, lecture, Los Angeles Art Show, panel, prints
Previously published on ForYourArt By Emily Waldorf On January 29th, five female art professionals participated in a panel discussion, “Playing Fair: Women in the Contemporary Art Market,” at the inaugural Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair at the Pacific Design Center. Art dealer Kimberly Light of Kim Light/Lightbox moderated the panel and opened up the dialogue […]
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Tags: Art Los Angeles Contemporary, contemporary art market, feminism, Judy Chicago, Kim Light/Lightbox, Lynda Benglis, panel, post-feminism, Sotheby's Institute of Contemporary Art, The Dinner Party, WACK!, women
by Kelly Boyd Norton Simon: Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres, through 4/5/10. Reaching its greatest height in France under the rule of Napoleon III, portraiture had up until the late 1860s been characterized by Ingres’ fidelity to the face and emphasis on the patron’s prestigious social and moral standing. In “Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres”, the Norton Simon […]
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Tags: folly, Getty, Getty Villa, Ingres, LACMA, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Norton Simon, Renoir
by Kelly Boyd At this year’s dinner celebrating the 66th Scripps College Ceramic Annual it was announced that Scripps alumna Joan Lincoln, class of ’49 and her husband David had pledged to give $4 million to benefit students studying ceramics at Scripps and the affiliated Claremont Graduate University. The gift includes a $3.5 million promise […]
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Tags: Ceramics Annual, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College
Mot du Jour: “Happenings”
“Happenings” are an avant-garde new media art form started in the U.S. in the 1960’s that privilege time and audience participation. Known for being random, loosely structured, and containing elements of the unexpected and even improvisational, Happenings include the performing artist'(s’) sounds, gestures, and movements and are unique in that they cannot be exactly reproduced […]
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Tags: Allan Kaprow, Happenings, performance art
Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm: Andrew Holder lecture: Drop It Like It’s Fake: Architecture and the Necessity of Faux Science Thursday, December 3 at 7pm: MediaSCAPES & Center For Visual Music present an evening of Immersive & Expanded Cinema of Visual Music Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm: Eric Owen Moss Construction Manual, 1988-2008: Conversation with Eric […]
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Tags: California Institute of Architecture, lectures, SCI-arc