photoshopping is art?

At least, that is what M. Seth Jones wants you to think.

banksy in la!

yesyesyes

Getting mail is like finding a perfectly assembled ice cream sundae on your front step in just the right state of melting. Getting lots of mail is like finding some of your favorite people perfectly assembled on your front step in just the right state of being.

presidential medal of freedom

Barack Obama presented Jasper Johns, a minimalist/conceptual artist, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday.

This is the first time since 1988 that an artist has received this award, whose recipients are usually politicians or military members. Georgia O'Keefe is the only female artist to have been honored. 

fernando pessoa

All love letters are
Ridiculous.
They wouldn't be love letters if they weren't
Ridiculous.

In my time I also wrote love letters
Equally, inevitably
Ridiculous.

Love letters, if there's love,
Must be
Ridiculous.

But in fact
Only those who've never written
Love letters
Are
Ridiculous.

If only I could go back
To when I wrote love letters
Without thinking how
Ridiculous.

The truth is that today
My memories
Of those love letters
Are what is
Ridiculous.

(All more-than-three-syllable words,
Along with unaccountable feelings,
Are naturally
Ridiculous.)

art as financial asset

The debate over whether art can be sold off to raise funds for an institution is clearly not over. THE mural by Jackson Pollock, commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim and the first to truly exemplify his mature style, may be up for sale to help offset the operating costs of the University of Iowa.

A joint statement from the AAMD and AAM:

The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and the American Association of Museums (AAM) are alarmed to learn of the recent proposal to sell the Jackson Pollock painting Mural to underwrite costs at The University of Iowa. Such a sale would violate a fundamental ethical principle of the museum field, one which all accredited museums are bound to respect: that an accessioned work of art may not be treated as a disposable financial asset.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason has forcefully spoken out against such an action in the past. We applaud this courageous stand and deplore the treatment of works of art held in trust for the public as a ready source of cash. We offer our support and call on the arts community to help prevent this permanent and irredeemable loss for the University and the people of the state of Iowa.

-art daily

luke jerram, I wish I was as clever as you.

more jeff seltzer

jeff seltzer

geof kern

kevin buist