World Press Photo of the Year 2005 - Arko Datta, India, Reuters.
"Woman mourns relative killed in tsunami, Cuddalore, India, Tamil Nadu, 28 December, 2004"
Reuters Pictures of the Year, 2005
2005: The year in photographs as captured through the lenses of US Army photographers. (via Monkeyfilter)
National Geographic's Photo of the Day
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the day
Architecture is arguably a form of art... so this entry belongs in this thread
Following the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2000, Brazil's Mendes da Rocha wins architecture's highest award - the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2006 (pdf - media announcement from Pritzker foundation).
The Pritzker Architecture Prize was created in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker, and is run by the Pritzker family. It is considered the world's premier architecture prize and is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. The winner receives $100,000, but more important is the industry-wide fame and subsequent interest from building developers. The Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel Prize of Architecture".
The Mies van der Rohe Award is granted every two years by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. (Listen to Great audio interviews with the famous Mies van der Rohe)
Art can take all kinds of interesting forms..
like e. e. cummings said:
"The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains."
You be the judge ....Art or Not...?
- John Powers
- Austin based photographer Tracy Boulian's sports photography (via Metafilter)
- Michael Paulus - Floating legless infants (with dwarves), smoking gods, and skeletal studies of cartoon characters! (via Metafilter)
- Esref Armagan is an accomplished painter, and has been blind since infancy. Interesting study about him at the New Scientist which raises an interesting question: "We normally think of seeing as the taking in of objective reality through our eyes. But is it?" (via Metafilter)
- Chet has contributed towards effects, sculptures and paintings, makeup, and props for such Hollywood ventures as The Ring, Ring 2, MIB II, Planet of the Apes, Grinch, Nutty Professor II, Three Kings, There's something about Mary, Batman & Robin, Addams Family Values, etc.
- Oakland-based photographer Scott Squire documents both the familiar and the unfamiliar in a style he calls NonFiction Photography. - (via Metafilter)
- Nature Photographers - an online resource dedicated to the art and technique of nature, wildlife and landscape photography (Posted at Metafilter)
- The quilts of Gees Bend
- Jim Herrington's Photographs (Flash intensive, but very good)
- Mark Harden's Artchive
- Aïna Photo is the first Afghan photo-journalism agency. Based in Kabul, Aïna Photo offers to the Afghan community, the opportunity to tell their story and their daily life after 23 years of conflict and political instability.
- Stills Gallery specialises in contemporary Australian photography and photo media based art
- Kim Sallaway Gallery
- Fractal World Gallery
- The Prokudin-Gorskii exhibit at the Library of Congress web site shows a fascinating variety of color photographs of WWI-era Russia. Prokudin-Gorskii, the Tsar's photographer, took the photos on three glass plates to achieve the color effect, and the Library of Congress shows how the photos were digitally rendered from the glass plates. (via Monkeyfilter)
- I debated whether this goes under Biology or Art. Decided on the latter.. Bird Type Specimens - 3D images of an extensive stuffed bird collection at the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam.
- Eerie and informative colour photos of WWI using the autochrome method, developed by the Lumiere brothers. Autochroming was the only industrial colour photography method available until 1935, when it was largely replaced by the system developed by Kodak. (via Monkeyfilter)
- Escher - a Java Applet with links to numerous web sites dealing with his work and art!
- Numeric Diaries & Trezart
- A forgotten Leonardo Da Vinci workshop discovered in Florence, Italy, including 500-year-old frescos and a secret room to dissect human cadavers.
- Dogs Playing Poker and other Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's art
- Ancient Sculptures
- But who are we to know such things? What if what first appeared as a solid yellow flower was in fact a series of radiating stripes? Another prominent one here. This is the world of ultraviolet as photographed by Bjørn Rørslett, the world as it is seen by insects and... bats and other mammals? (a Mefi link)
- Drummer turned sculptor: mellow, intriguing wood sculpture from Dennis Elliott, also known as the former drummer from the hard rock band Foreigner. - (Mefi link)
- Cabinet of Art and Medicine is a really neat collection of historical medical photography and related poetry. Compiler Mark Rowley has published an extensive bibliography of historical medical photography and in an easily missed section of his site offers his own poetic commentary on a few pictures. I found the whole thing rather moving. (medical nudity) - (Mefi link)
- The Chaco Culture National Historical Park (flash) encompasses a whole canyon's worth of buildings that appear to be designed to elaborately showcase the movement of the sun and the moon. And the website for the park is pretty well done. Also see the PBS-supported documentary called "The Mystery of Chaco Canyon" from the Solstice Project and a previous Metafilter discussion of archaeoastronomy. - (Mefi link)
- I couldn't remember the name of that guy who does fruit and veggie art. No, not Kei Kosa, he's trippier than this fellow. Not Greg Brown (not to be confused with "mural Greg Brown" of Alien Saucer Crash and Buckethead Man with Paddleball fame) either, though Brown's cool too, sometimes whimsical, sometimes (woo!) suggestive. Fruits and vegetables have often been used suggestively, in advertising or even classics, maybe the innuendo of Joachim Beuckelaer's art such as Woman Selling Vegetables. No, the guy I was thinking of takes into consideration the intrinsic character and personality of each piece he "sculpts." I remember! It's Saxton Freymann! (...maybe influenced by the Thai fruit-n-veggie carving tradition though he does not approve.)- (Mefi post)
- Robert Rauschenberg was one of the great American artists of the 20th Century, developing a signature style which he called "combines" in which he combined paint, collage, and scupture in one piece. His work has been showcased at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, MoMA, and The Guggenheim among others (Mefi post)
- The Light and the Land
- Unusual technical images of equipment used in World War II - vintage public information illustrations from the pre-computer graphics era.
- British Portrait Miniatures
- Digital Design Museum - A century of chairs. Some pretty things for sitting on.
- Vietnam War Photos
- Canadian Museum of Civilization's "Cool '60s Design" exhibition - "Cosmopolitan, outrageous and sexy. Pop, protest and pills. The counterculture and the global village. Canada changed in the 1960s. An explosion in the arts - and cool, confident Canadian design. Grand expressions of optimism: satellites, love-ins, and a new flag, Aboriginal and women's rights, separatism and Expo 67."
- Molecular Expressions - Pretty pictures taken through microscopes
- Dave?s Gallery of Comic Art
- Hand bookbindings. - Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
- Interactive Human Body Rotate, drag, and drop human organs into place.
- Death Valley in bloom. Lots more here and the story is here. Flickr photos with tags deathvalley+flowers. (Full disclosure: I work on Flickr. -ericost) NPR did a segment recently. Desert USA has a guide. The Death Valley National Park news page has a link to two PDFs. Wildflower Update. (via MetaTalk)
- 'Ah Ha! Jazz is a portfolio of photos taken between 1970-1980 by Helen Mandel'.
- Beaded Splendour: Migration of Beadmaking and Beadwork Throughout Africa.
- They Still Draw Pictures. Children's drawings from the Spanish Civil War.
- Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch.
- Degas.
- Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
- The Canon Camera Museum includes the Virtual Lens Plant, showing lens grinding and assembly. The Camera Hall, including a chronological digital camera section. (via Monkeyfilter)
- The Allan Janus Museum
- A group called Phidelity has been making sand art on the beaches of California with some string, a couple of rakes, and a trowel. Check out photos, and a time lapse video [.mov] of the team at work. - (via Mefi)
- This has to rank high up there... if you have 10 minutes, see this. I cannot describe it... (big 19MB file). Some background from the Mefi post: This is from an exhibition at SICAF (Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival) 2003 and is by the Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.)
- Czech animated-film director, visual artist, and surrealist Jan Svankmajer, whose feature films including a unique retelling of "Alice in Wonderland", FAUST, CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE and his newest film LITTLE OTIK (OTESÁNEK).
- In 1936, Walker Evans famously photographed a family of sharecroppers in Depression era Alabama(rephotographed by Sherrie Levine.)
- Original art work from North Korea
- Exhibition of 32 artists, designers and architects from the Cranbrook Academy of Art
- The nineteenth-century Countess de Castiglione was obsessed with capturing her own image in over 400 photographs that recreated significant moments of her life. (via Monkeyfilter)
- Ukai, or cormorant fishing, is a traditional method of river fishing, practiced in Japan for some 1300 years. This method involves fishermen using cormorant birds on leashes to catch sweetfish (via Monkeyfilter)
- Surrealism - A Gallery
- The Surreal World of Salvador Dali - Exhibition of over 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through May 15, 2005.
- Escher's Tiles Simple Java applet that'll allow you to regularly tile the plane, using the exact same method (and patterns) that Escher used - (Via Monkeyfilter)
- Discarding old computers has been a big problem - some thought they could turn it into ....art!
- Fun with paper - some neat polyhedral constructions by George Hart
- Some interesting NPR snippets discussing the relation between science and art..
- Anyone else see the irony in this...
- Read about pinhole cameras and "Camera Obscura"
- How to Do Anything Photographic - lots of practical advice, though not as extensive as photo.net. The technique section, in particular, is worth reading for amateur photographers. -(Mefi link)
- So..what is beauty?
- More details on the Bill Gates picture from the 80's making the internet rounds..
- Andy Warhol's name keeps coming up everywhere.. but I did not know much about him or his work and so thought I'd find out more...
- The art of Hipgnosis defined the look of album covers during the 'classic rock' period - (via Mefi)
- Bollywood Record Covers - Bollywood soundtrack LP covers. Music album covers seems to be common interest... here we have covers of Brazilian Bossa Nova & Samba records 1960's. Hobbies sure get highly focused! - Surf Movie Posters of the 60's!
- Artelino - Art Auctions
- An Ancient Masterpiece or a Master's Forgery? an allegation, which if true, will shake up Western art historians ... Lynn Catterson, a summer lecturer at Columbia University, says the acclaimed
sculpture Laocoön, unearthed in 1506 to international acclaim, was not created by the ancient Greeks as traditionally believed. The real creator was the famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti. Scholars have long sought to pin down its origin?whether it is a Greek original or a Roman copy, and to fix its date somewhere between the mid-third century B.C. and the second century A.D. Michelangelo maintained that the work was a long-lost masterpiece of which the first-century Roman historian Pliny had written. Pliny wrote about the the piece in his art encylopedia, Natural History, saying, "the Laocoon in the palace of Titus, a work superior to any painting and any bronze. Laocoon, his children, and the wonderful clasping coils of the snakes were carved from a single block in accordance with an agreed plan by those eminent craftsmen Hagesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus, all of Rhodes." But 'a reevaluation of the Laocoön and the circumstances of its 'discovery' together with startling new evidence lead to the conclusion that the statue is actually a modern forgery by Michelangelo', said the statement released by Columbia's Italian Academy. Michelangelo is said to have been at the scene when the Laocoön (pronounced Lao-Cowan) was unearthed at a Roman vineyard, and to have ?authenticated? its ancient origins for Pope Julius II. The pope promptly acquired it, handsomely rewarded the farmer who had reported finding it, and displayed it in the Vatican, where it stays. The marble sculpture depicts a priest and his sons struggling to break free of an attacking sea snake, based on a story in Homer's Iliad. Catterson didn't reveal the basis for her forgery allegation, but announced that she will present the details at a lecture April 6 at the university?s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. - One of France's richest men is ditching plans to build a spectacular contemporary art museum outside Paris because he is fed up with the red tape and inertia of the local authorities. The billionaire businessman, François Pinault (# 91 on World's Richest People 2004), owner of one of the finest private contemporary art collections in Europe, is now likely to put it on display in a magnificent 18th-century palace in Venice.
- The Russian Photography Collection is comprised of approximately 7,000 gelatin-silver photographs by the leading photographers and photojournalists working in Soviet Russia between the two World Wars.
- 1400+ Communist party posters from Russia, Czech republic, Poland and Cuba
- No time for Idle Hands :25 original paintings and drawings commemorating 19th-Century Women of the Plains & Prairies. (via)
- American, Australian, British, Canadian & New Zealand Railway photographs
- Sex in the Stone Age - Pornography in Clay
Walking with beauty (Native American artifacts). Also"Beauty and the Beast" tales from this collection. - And another kind of "Beauty and the Beast", in the form of fractal art.
- Maps of Narnia. - 15 comments
- Hand painted Russian film posters (for non-Russian films) - (via Monkeyfilter)
- Fine Art by Eddie Breen - (via Monkeyfilter)
- Patterns for web page backgrounds
- DISCLAIMER: Some of the links in this thread may NBSFW (not safe for work). Also, do not click on links and then complain if you are under 18 or easily offended!
Amazing what people got away with - freshman students, both male and female, were being photographed nude by university authorities during the 40-60's. Supposedly a voluntary practice for some anthropological project, most weren't consulted, and they accepted it as a normal procedure. But ever since, the value of the project has been questioned. While some of the institutions take it lightly nowadays, it was quite an strange event. A few pictures can be seen here ? via (Monkeyfilter). Also see The case of the Ivy League posture photos.and related discussion at Mefi andafew more articles,on the subject Also, The Century Project, which is a series of nude photographs accompanied by highly personal and moving statements by women whose lives span 100 years. - Sensitive Light, a portfolio of photographs by Graham Jeffery.
- The art of...Napkin Folding!
- Judy Mundy Photography
- SXC is a community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge
- Neeta Madahar's Photo-Gallery "Sustenance" - capturing the daily drama of birdlife in surreal luminosity from her balcony window - at the Julie Saul Gallery in NY City (Apr 28 - Jun 11, 2005)
- File Magazine - A Collection of Unexpected Photography
- Meiji architecture The Meiji Mura is an open-air museum with many examples of Japanese Meiji-period architecture from between the mid 19th century and the early decades of the 20th. The buildings, often rescued from the threat of demolition, show how Japan developed its own distinctive modern architectural style during this period. - via Mefi
- Manhole Cover Photography.
- Frida Kahlo has a show opening at the Tate Modern in Britain. The Mexican artist was married to famous muralist Diego Rivera. Frida learned how to paint after suffering a horrible accident and attended her first and only opening in Mexico in her bed after years of pain. Pain and suffering are common themes in her work, which is widely known and largely focused on self-portraiture. - via Mefi
- 32 Jackson Pollock drip paintings discovered. (3 images - click on "Jackson Pollock") Alex Matter's parents, the photographer Herbert Matter, and the painter Mercedes Matter, were friends with Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Alex apparently discovered the small paintings while sorting through his father's archives. Believed to be studies for the large drip paintings, they have been estimated to be worth upwards of 40 million dollars, if real. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, however, is "reserving judgement" on the authenticity - via Mefi
- Exhibitions
- A Filipino painter's 'soul in images'
- The art of Tim Slowinski, Karen Wilcox, JoAnn Bishop, and Joachim Marx
- Little visual miracles. For more than forty years that most American of photographers, Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters Lee Friedlander, has recorded modern American urban life -- with its jumble of people, signs, buildings, and cars, and television sets. He likes to turn a common blunder of amateurs -- photographing something nearby with one's back to the sun -- into a leitmotif. His shadow plays the role of alter ego, sticking to the back of a woman's fur collar, clinging to a lamppost as a parade of drum majorettes passes by, reclining like a stuffed doll on a chair. Clever jigsaw puzzles, his pictures frequently reveal themselves to be laconic, austere poems to what Friedlander has termed "the American social landscape',' meaning mostly ordinary places and affairs. "Friedlander," an exhibition of more than 480 photographs and 25 books covering decades of work, runs at MoMA through Aug. 29, before traveling to Europe until 2007 - (via Mefi)
- San Joaquin Valley & Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage - portraits, workers, railways, disasters, group shots, parades , native Americans and some curios. - (via Mefi)
- Leonardo's lost work, the Battle of Anghiari, may be hidden behind a wall in Florence. Also: Oxford professor launches Universal Leonardo Project, a detailed technical study of all works attributed to Leonardo.
- The Artwork of Lee Teter - "Each picture is a feature that is itself a work of art yet still a part of the whole. Attention is given to all details but the most important element of Lee Teter art is heart. He paints the emotion he feels in himself and the emotion he feels in others. Art is Lee Teter's language."
- Joel Nakamura's tin paintings explore ideas inspired by Mexican folk lore, retablo paintings and road signage. These tin works follow the tradition of painting images on sheets of tin in central Mexico.
- A Chinese porcelain jar of the 14th century, painted in blue on a white background with scenes relating to events that took place in the sixth century B.C., was sold Tuesday for £15.68 million, or $27.7 million. It thus set a world auction record for any work of art from any Asian culture
- Art to drive home a political/social message - Art prankster decorates Israel's security barrier
- India's rural theatre portrays the British bombings - The play, London Burning, is a reinvention of jatra, a centuries-old travelling theatre tradition hugely popular in villages in the region. From the article: "Indian epics and mythological tales have traditionally been the staple fodder but six years ago, Digbijoy Opera - one of Calcutta's 55-odd jatra troupes - kicked off the trend with a couple of plays on the Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan and militancy in Indian-administered Kashmir. The plots were strongly anti-Pakistani. Then came a play on the 9/11 attacks on the United States. It played for more than 200 nights and was heavy on spectacle rather than drama. The next big production - The Imprisoned Hero Saddam - on the capture of Saddam Hussain, was sympathetic to the former Iraqi president and lectured America on how "not to treat international leaders".
- Ashes and Snow:
In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals. The images depict a world that is without beginning or end, here or there, past or present.- Gregory Colbert, Creator of Ashes and Snow
- Urban Ruins - Photographic. With 85 galleries of subjects as gorgeous as Bannerman's Arsenal and as haunting as the Verden Psychiatric Hospital, it's a treasure trove of entropy on film - via Mefi
- World Art from the Berger Foundation
- The twisted ink drawings of Jon Kuta (big enough to make desktops; Flash interface), and the fabulously lifelike driftwood and bronze sculptures of Heather Jansch (she really likes horses. - via Mefi
- Pavement art
- An artists' community takes shape on Beijing's edge
- "It's often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri's aerial photographs are real."metropolismag.com - via Mefi Amazing aerial photographs by Olivo Barbieri, who uses a tilt-shift lens to create the startling effect of looking at a city model.
- I'd like your smallest painting. No, smaller than that. Even smaller. Wait, that's too small.
- Digital Funnies: Comics Preservation by Jonathan Barli. - via Mefi
- Photographer Peter Krogh brings a creative, award-winning approach to technically challenging and visually compelling photographic storytelling. - via Linkfilter
- Egypt's 19th century lithographs - via Linkfilter
- Many of the biggest names in art: Rembrandt, Picasso, Titian, Whistler, Leonardo da Vinci, are featured at the National Gallery of Art in a special exhibition beginning 4/30/06. The works shown are not the great oil paintings that art lovers expect from such masters. They're drawings, including a meticulously detailed, vividly tinted watercolor of a bird's wing by Hans Hoffman, a German painter of the late 1500s (not this guy.) Museums often classify watercolors as drawings because they're done on paper. - a AP Press Release (via Forbes.)
- Paper Art by Peter Callesen
- Barcode Art
- Jason Mecier's gallery of art using an odd assortment of items
- A beautiful doll-house
- A Flickr gallery with some great pictures
- Amazing portrait pictures. And here is some more!
- Wild Things Photography by John Hyde
- Ralf Greiner's Photographs
- Anthony Wallace's photography
- The National Media Museum in Bradford is currently running an Autochrome exhibition to mark 100 years of colour photography. Similar to this, the Autochrome method of photography is both stunningly surreal and hauntingly reminiscent of pre-raphaelite art. Unfortunately, the art of making Autochrome plates seems to have been lost, but you can create your own using Photoshop. - via Mefi
- 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art - via
