Paramount Steps Up to Contest for Oscars

Taraji P. Henson, left, and Brad Pitt, who plays the title role in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” a Paramount film set for December release.

LOS ANGELES — Like its namesake character, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Hollywood’s take on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been aging in reverse.
Related Trailer: 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
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Jamie Foxx, left, and Robert Downey Jr. in “The Soloist,” from Paramount’s DreamWorks unit.
Fitzgerald’s tale begins in 1860 and stretches through the First World War. The version set for release by Paramount Pictures on Christmas Day kicks Button’s life span all the way forward to Hurricane Katrina and uses computer wizardry that could make the author’s Jazz Age fable feel almost young.
If it is all that Paramount executives hope, the movie, directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, will also mark the birth of the next phase at the aging studio. Brad Grey, Paramount’s chairman, has been eager to show that he can sell tickets and win Oscars without the help of his DreamWorks partners — Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Stacey Snider — who are leaving to form a company of their own.
Mr. Grey is not the only studio chieftain chasing Oscar glory. This year a clutch of late-season releases promises to push several big studios heavily into the Oscar fray, as they move to fill space left by the closing or reorientation of specialty divisions like Warner Independent Pictures, Picturehouse and Paramount Vantage, which had come to dominate the awards race in recent years.

More at The New York Times.

Murakami

Tan Tan Bo Puking - a.k.a. Gero Tan, 2008

September 27,?2008 – January 4,?2009

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/Main presents the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the works of Takashi Murakami. In May 2008, Time Magazine cited Murakami as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. As with the case of the major Sturtevant exhibition in 2004, the entire museum will be devoted to showcasing Murakami’s oeuvre. For the duration of the exhibition, only works by this artist will be on view, with the MMK transforming itself, as the title suggests, into a © MURAKAMI Museum.© MURAKAMI was organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), whose chief curator Paul Schimmel curated and supervised the exhibition. After Los Angeles, the exhibition traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York. MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main is the first platform for the © MURAKAMI exhibition in Europe. Here, the show has been organized by Udo Kittelmann and Mario Kramer in close collaboration with the artist. The last stop on the tour will be the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

More at Artnews.org

Andy Warhol: Pop Politics

2008-09-27 until 2009-01-04
Currier Museum of Art
Manchester, NH, USA United States of America

Andy Warhol - one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century - captured the likeness of some of the most visionary and powerful political leaders of the 20th century. Images of John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, and Mao Zedong, among others will hang side-by-side when the Currier Museum of Art presents Andy Warhol: Pop Politics from September 27, 2008 through January 4, 2009. Pop Politics displays together for the first time more than sixty of Warhol's paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs of political figures. His portraits of American presidents and presidential candidates, queens, Communist dictators, and other political figures reveal intriguing, yet until now unexplored insights into Warhol's own celebrity status and political leanings. Warhol's images of these powerful personalities comment on the interrelationships between politics and celebrity culture in the late twentieth century - connections that remain ever present today. Timed to coincide with the 2008 presidential election, this exhibition offers a probing and entertaining look through the eyes of America's most famous Pop artist at the leaders who shaped the twentieth century.

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Armın Mersmann Exhibiton

German born Armin Mersmann knew from a very young age that he wanted to become an artist, and a lifetime of following that goal has produced the caliber of work that now defines him as one of the foremost graphite realists in the nation. After serving four years as a graphic artist in the Air Force, Mersmann went on to spend the next five years in various art schools both in the US and in Germany. Mersmann was represented by Portraits Chicago for high-end commission pieces but the artist eventually decided to pursue his own art instead of commission works. He now works out of his studio in Michigan and is busy creating and displaying his art both locally and nationally. He has received numerous awards, including being recognized as Artist Magazine's Top 100 Portrait Artists, and receiving the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Excellence in Technique Award.

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Fleming Gala Opens the Met’s Season

The Metropolitan Opera opened its 125th-anniversary season on Monday evening with a gala Renée Fleming showcase. Everything about the three-part evening was fashioned, quite literally, for Ms. Fleming.
She was featured in three favorite roles: Violetta in Act II 0f Verdi’s “Traviata”; Manon in Act III of Massenet’s “Manon”; and the Countess in the final scene of Strauss’s “Capriccio.” To lend an extra touch of diva dazzle to the evening, the Met commissioned three renowned fashion designers to create Ms. Fleming’s costumes: Christian Lacroix for “Traviata,” Karl Lagerfeld for “Manon” and John Galliano for “Capriccio.”
For weeks waggish opera bloggers had dubbed the evening “The Renée Fleming Fashion Show,” “The Renéesance” and such. And in a way the gala was, as the Met’s general manager Peter Gelb said recently on “Charlie Rose,” a “kind of retro affair.”

More at The New York Times .

Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night

2008-09-22 until 2009-01-05
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, USA

The Van Gogh Museum and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York are collaborating on Van Gogh and the colours of the night. It is the first exhibition to be dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's representations of the evening and night, a theme which recurs throughout his oeuvre. Celebrated works from international collections will include The starry night (MoMA), Eugene Boch (Musee d'Orsay) and The potato eaters (Van Gogh Museum). Van Gogh and the colours of the night is the first collaborative project between the Van Gogh Museum and MoMA and organized by Joachim Pissarro (Adjunct Curator of MoMA, Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries) and Sjraar van Heugten (head of Collections of the Van Gogh Museum). The exhibition will be on view from 21 September 2008 to 5 January 2009 at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and from 13 February to 7 June 2009 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

More at absolutearts.com .

Cooliris (formerly PicLens) 1.8.2.4690

It's piclens, it's free and it's so useful, it shows you pics from all over the web in one wall as 3D. For more info on this visit the link.some informations about Cooliris:Full-Screen, 3D -- Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for searching, viewing, and sharing online photos and videos. Our "3D Wall" lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images, videos, news feeds, sports feeds, and more. To share stuff with friends, just drag and drop. See our demo at http://cooliris.com/demo

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Plea to save vanishing art of the pub sign

Many inn signs hold historic and local significance. Photograph: Reg Speller/Getty

The painted pub sign, one of the oldest popular visual arts traditions in Britain, is locked in decline. That is the fear of conservationists who hope to alert pub chains and breweries to a 'catastrophic' loss of the traditional skills involved and a failure to preserve a heritage that dates back to Roman times.
The growing corporate ownership of public houses across the British Isles has led to the standardisation of what is on offer, both inside and outside the bar. The situation has worsened in the past five years because of the increasing number of pub closures. Figures compiled by the Campaign for Real Ale show that an average of 57 pubs shut permanently every month.

More at The Observer.

Hirst May Exit Corner Office as Lehman Mulls Collection's Fate

A man loads his personal belongings into a cab after leaving Lehman Brothers International Europe's headquarters at Canary Wharf in London on Sept. 15, 2008. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Artworks by Takashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky and Jasper Johns are among the lesser-known assets in Lehman Brothers' meltdown.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. owns about 3,500 contemporary artworks that have been displayed in the investment bank's offices around the world, and the fate of the collection is unclear.
Depending on Lehman's bankruptcy proceedings and whether portions of its businesses are acquired, some or all of the art may be sold. Lehman inherited a separate collection when it purchased money manager Neuberger Berman in 2003, and that art -- about 900 works -- is likely to belong to a new owner if Neuberger is sold.
``In these situations, you can't just sell things off willy nilly,'' art adviser Judith Selkowitz said of the collection. ``They want everything orderly.''
Randall Whitestone, a Lehman spokesman, declined to comment.

More at Bloomberg.com.

Marijn van Kreij

21 September - 02 November 2008

From mid-September the exhibition space at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam will be annexed by the work of Marijn van Kreij. Large wall paintings, combined with drawings in various formats and styles, transform the space into a colourful, anarchistic interplay of diverse artistic forms. Central aspects of Van Kreij’s work such as appropriation, copying, citation and redefining return in this powerful three-dimensional installation which is begin staged by the artist himself under the title 'Tomorrow is Humourless.'Van Kreij’s art production includes drawings, paintings, photographs, objects and videos that often refer to the popular and mass culture of the 20th and 21st century. Using written and drawn symbols and forms, he shows us a world in which playfulness prevails and rules are made to be broken. One of his points of departure is the denial of any difference between the expressive power of images and words. That reveals itself in wall paintings of text fragments or drawings that at the same time appear to be notes. Examples of this can be found in the publication Marijn van Kreij - O Let it Be (2008).

More at Artnews.org .

Damien Hirst Skips the Middleman

By the final fall of the gavel at Sotheby's sale of new works by Damien Hirst yesterday, the world's richest artist (reportedly worth more than $1 billion), was $172 million richer. That was the amount left from the $201 million total after subtracting Sotheby's commission and $6.2 million of charitable donations. But perhaps more important, Mr. Hirst was also comfortable in the knowledge he had made history.

Not only was it the largest single artist sale ever held, with 287 lots; it was a sale that courageously flouted the time-honored tradition in which galleries have had sole lien on the sale of an artist's latest works.

Mr. Hirst has always been his own man. He bypassed the gallery system with the landmark Freeze warehouse exhibition 20 years ago, and has avoided binding contracts with his galleries, White Cube and Gagosian, since. He is on record as a critic of high gallery commission rates on sales, up to 50% for most artists or as little as 20% for him, but his purpose here was, as he said, to "democratize" his market by giving buyers who might be sidelined by prestige-conscious gallery sales teams the opportunity to bid on the open market. The sale was also designed to open up his market to potential buyers who might never have thought of buying his work -- until, that is, they'd been zapped by the publicity machine.

More at Wall Street Journal.

Jerwood drawing winners revealed

Artist Warren Baldwin has won the Jerwood Drawing Prize for his pencil and charcoal on paper drawing, Study for Portrait.
Second place went to Lia Anna Hennig for her ink-on-paper work, When I'm Sea Queen Surely I Will Need A Sea King.
This year saw more than 2,500 entries submitted to the UK's largest annual open drawing competition.

More information at BBC NEWS .

Sasha Blanton - Ancient Experiences, paintings and drawings

Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is delighted to announce the opening of Ancient Experiences paintings and drawings by emerging artist Sasha Blanton. Sasha Blanton’s first solo show Ancient Experiences is inspired by his statement, “Objective truth is a fallacy, all we are is our experience.” Drawn to fundamental metaphysical questions, Blanton’s paintings explore the ever evolving and multifarious nature of human experience. Using the surface as a metaphor for the passage of time, each layer’s textural element gives the impression of entropy. Focusing on the figure from a classical viewpoint, each painting depicts the intangible as experienced through feeling, beyond the grasp of physicality. In addition, to his figurative work Blanton will also exhibit a series entitled “Fluting” which reference the earliest known traces of human markings.

More at absolutearts .

Harmonic Convergence: When Julian Met Plácido

The artist Julian Schnabel with Plácido Domingo, the tenor, at Mr. Schnabel’s studio.

Julian Schnabel paints portraits the way the old masters did, starting with a dark background and then layering on light and color. Where the masters varnished their pictures, Mr. Schnabel sometimes coats his with resin. The main difference is that the old masters took weeks or even months to complete a portrait, and Mr. Schnabel can finish one in several hours, which, even allowing for several centuries’ worth of inflation, makes for a much sweeter payday.

On Thursday Mr. Schnabel painted Peddrick Sheffer, a truck driver from York, Pa., who had won a Schnabel portrait as part of the MasterCard “priceless” campaign. (Or not quite priceless: the contest rules estimated the value of the painting at $350,000.) He played some Willie Nelson tunes to put Mr. Sheffer at ease and also tried to talk him into voting for Barack Obama. “I told him, ‘If you like my work, trust me on this,’ ” Mr. Schnabel said.

More at The New York Times.

Stolen Dutch paintings recovered

Five 17th Century paintings that were stolen from the renowned Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands in 2002 have been recovered by Dutch police.
Paintings including two by Jan Steen and others by Cornelis Bega, and Adriaan van Ostade were recovered.
A museum spokesman said some of the works had been damaged, but all would be exhibited from Wednesday.
Police have arrested three people in connection with the case, national newspaper De Telegraaf reported.

More information at BBC NEWS .

The Eternal Flame

Claudia Wieser, Die Spitze des Titlis, 2008

10 August - 05 October 2008

A project by Burkhard Meltzer and Sabine Schaschl “Eternity” is one of those words we use without really having a concept of what they refer to. As an existential experience of our life-time and a metaphysical idea of something “beyond time”, our relationship with time is a philosophical evergreen. The Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle always assumed that matter existed eternally when discussing the big mystery of how the world came into being. They did not believe that the world as known by humankind could simply have materialized out of nothing. On the threshold from antiquity to the Middle Ages, the theologian and philosopher Augustine considered eternity to be an everlasting force and even called it a negation of all time. In subsequent centuries, theologians and philosophers often understood eternity to mean there was hope for the existence of God. Henri Bergson, in the 19th century, and Martin Heidegger, in the 20th, however, had other, more modern difficulties with the notion of eternity. Bergson was particularly concerned with the precarious shortcomings of language to even describe eternity, while Heidegger tried to find eternity in art, for instance – in order to make the unimaginable more graspable. The point where language and the aesthetic experience of art intersect seems to be propitious for reflections on eternity.

More at artnews.org

Ayse Erkmen

13 September 2008 - 11 January 2009

An exhibition of the Nationalgalerie in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin.In autumn 2008 the Hamburger Bahnhof will present a comprehensive solo exhibition of works by Ayşe Erkmen. Taking the spatial features of the museum's architecture as the starting point, the conceptual artist will forge a "path" from the building's exterior to its interior.

More at artnews.org

Art for collection

Il Ramo d'Oro in Naples, opens their new exhibition season with small and large artworks by Italian and foreign artists from their collection. Opening on Saturday September 13, 2008 at 6 pm. The Gallery will be open for visitor's to the exhibition until the September 29, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm every day but on Thursday. Artists participating in the exhibition include: Alberto Allup, Nunzio Bibbu, Orlando Campos, Simone Catania, Belinda Casanova, Jeorge Contreras, Maria Pia Daidone, Ines De Veer, Arnoldo Diaz, Mario D'Imperio, Sergio Fermariello, Antonio Fomez, Francesco Gallo, Amalia Guerrero, Giuseppe Antonello Leone, Franco Lista, Setyo Mardiyantoro, Vincenzo Montella, Adriana Montariello, Shin-Hye Park, Socorro Peraza, Nuccia Pulpo, Gisela Roberts, Michele Roccotelli, Alma Sauro, Sangeeta Singh, Marco Sodaro, Mario Stoccuto, Carlos Triana, Carla Viparelli. Il Ramo d'Oro promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio from absolutearts.com.


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Tapes Offer New Clues to a Master of Mystery

“A complete egoist,” Agatha Christie said of Hercule Poirot, her brilliant, diminutive, impeccably dressed Belgian detective.

“Puffy and spinsterish,” she quipped of Miss Marple, her other famous sleuth. “The old spinster lady living in a village.”
Uttered in the reedy voice of Christie herself, these withering descriptions are contained on a cache of audiotapes, recently discovered in a dusty cardboard box in one of her former houses by her only grandson, Mathew Prichard.

More at The New York Times.

Personal Algorithms

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Personal Algorithms,” a sculpture, video and painting exhibition by SVA students who take an intuitive, process-oriented approach to making art. The artists are Gregg Louis, Stacy Scibelli and Paul Vogeler. The exhibition is curated by Richard Brooks, assistant director of student galleries.

September 2 - 20, 2008

Reception: Wednesday, September 10, 5-7pm

More at School of Vısual Arts.

From Tapestries to Top Job, Ready for Met’s Challenges

Thomas P. Campbell has been selected as the Met’s next chief.

For most of his career Thomas P. Campbell has presided over a tiny corner of art history that few people know or care much about: those grand European tapestries that were the obsession of kings and queens, popes and noblemen.

“It was an art form of magnificence, and it was an art form of propaganda,” he said Wednesday afternoon in an interview at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It was a subject that engaged the greatest patrons of the day and the greatest artists of the time.”

More at The New York Times.

100 Years of Anne

Discoveries on a rainy night

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario (LMMSO) and Uxbridge Township in association with Gribble Landscape Creations (GLC) bring to the CNE a fascinating tribute to this popular Canadian author in an exhibit celebrating her many literary accomplishments as well as her love of the garden. Her most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables (first published in 1908) celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

More at Canadian National Exhibition .

Film Noir

One of cinematic style i like watch is film noir.
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.
The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the era. Cinema historians and critics defined the canon of film noir in retrospect; many of those involved in the making of the classic noirs later professed to be unaware of having created a distinctive type of film. More atWikipedia.

Two silhouetted figures in The Big Combo (1955). The film's cinematographer was John Alton, the creator of many of film noir's iconic images.

And my fovurite film noir is sincity.what is your choice?

Walker Art Center Names Baltimore Curator as Vergne replacement

Darsie Alexander will replace Philippe Vergne as the chief curator of the Walker Art Center. Currently a curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Alexander will begin at the Walker on November 10. She started out at the Baltimore museum in 2000 as an associate curator and since 2005 has served as senior curator and head of the contemporary art department. Before moving to Baltimore, she worked as assistant curator of photography at MoMA in New York. According to the Star Tribune, Alexander's husband, David Little, is rumored to be the lead candidate for the position of photography curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

More at Artınfo

A New Voice From Within at the Met

The name Thomas P. Campbell probably won’t ring many bells with the public. Inside the Metropolitan Museum, though, the news of his ascension to director is likely to be greeted by many colleagues with pleasure and relief.

More at The New York Times .

Hirst hits back at Aussie critic

"Rembrandt, Velasquez, Goya, I think they were all thinking about the commercial aspects of art," Hirst said.
"I believe I'm only doing what any of these artists would be doing if they were alive."
But Hirst also said he put art first and money was secondary.

British artist Damien Hirst poses with a diamond-encrusted platinum skull.

Photo: Reuters

Death row inmate gives his body to art

Evaristti’s execution bed which goes on view this month in Copenhagen

Gene Hathorn, a convict on death row in Texas, has agreed to give his body to the Danish-based artist Marco Evaristti, should his final appeal against execution fail. Evaristti plans to turn Hathorn’s body into a work of art. “My aim is to first deep freeze Gene’s body and then make fish food out of it. Visitors to my exhibition will be able to feed goldfish with it,"Evaristti told The Art Newspaper.

More at the The Art Newspaper

Art Theatre in Hobart gets new look

HOBART -- A new, three-sided marquee illuminated by bright, flashing lights will greet downtown moviegoers tonight.
The marquee outside the Art Theatre is the latest upgrade in a two-year project to restore the 67-year-old theater to its former grandeur.
The marquee is reminiscent of the one that was in place when the Art opened in 1941, although it's not quite as big as the original, owner Scott Frey said.
"A lot of people think we're not opened. But the flashing lights will give the theater new life," said Frey, who also owns the Dairy Queen restaurant in Hobart.

More at the Post-Tribune.

Midland Theatre prepares for a new life

The historic Midland Theatre should be rocking Tuesday with Melissa Etheridge after a two-year hiatus, but its backers are just as excited with what’s happening offstage.
That is because the 80-year-old former movie palace at 13th and Main streets has picked up some new flexibility after a $28 million overhaul.
Yes, the stage will boast much-improved lighting and sound equipment, but the ornate interior has been tweaked as well to accommodate a variety of private events such as fundraisers, parties and banquets.

Read the full story in the Kansas City Star.

Osman Hamdi Bey

"The Tortoise Trainer" by Osman Hamdi Bey, Pera Museum, İstanbul

Osman Hamdi Bey, (1842 İstanbul - 24 February 1910 İstanbul) was a prominent and pioneering Turkish painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is considered as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of İstanbul Academy of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in Turkish), known today as the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. more...

Osman Hamdi Bey is one of my favourite artist from Turkey.Especially i like a work named "The Tortoise Trainer".You can see above.

The Art of the Ottomans before 1600

Ornamental drawing of a dragon, mid-16th century; OttomanAttributed to Shah Quli

Turkey (Istanbul)

At the time of its foundation in the early fourteenth century, the Osmanli or Ottoman state was one among many small principalities that emerged as a result of the disintegration of the Seljuq sultanate in Anatolia and subsequent instability caused by Mongol rule. This embryonic Ottoman state, located on the frontiers of the Islamic world, gradually absorbed former Byzantine territories in Anatolia and the Balkans. In 1453, this expansion culminated in the Ottoman capture of Constantinople, the great capital of Eastern Christendom. With the conquest of the Mamluk empire in 1517, the Ottomans ruled over the most powerful state in the Islamic world. By the middle of the sixteenth century, continued military success in an area extending from Central Europe to the Indian Ocean gave the Ottomans the status of a world power.

In the arts, there is a paucity of extant objects from the early Ottoman period, but it is apparent from surviving buildings that Byzantine, Mamluk, and Persian traditions were integrated to form a distinctly Ottoman artistic vocabulary.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/otto1/hd_otto1.htm

Art - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Art refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations, and expressions that are appealing to the senses or emotions of a human individual. The word "art" may be used to cover all or any of the arts, including music, literature and other forms. It is most often used to refer specifically to the visual arts, including media such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking. However it can also be applied to forms of art that stimulate the other senses, such as music, an auditory art. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which considers art.
Traditionally the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery, a concept which altered during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science".Generally art is a (product of) human activity, made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind; by transmitting emotions and/or ideas. Beyond this description, there is no general agreed-upon definition of art. Art is also able to illustrate abstract thought and its expressions can elicit previously hidden emotions in its audience.
The evaluation of art has become especially problematic since the 20th century. Richard Wollheim distinguishes three approaches: the Realist, whereby aesthetic quality is an absolute value independent of any human view; the Objectivist, whereby it is also an absolute value, but is dependent on general human experience; and the Relativist position, whereby it is not an absolute value, but depends on, and varies with, the human experience of different humans.An object may be characterized by the intentions, or lack thereof, of its creator, regardless of its apparent purpose. A cup, which ostensibly can be used as a container, may be considered art if intended solely as an ornament, while a painting may be deemed craft if mass-produced.
Visual art is defined as the arrangement of colors, forms, or other elements "in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium".The nature of art has been described by Wollheim as "one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture".It has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation.Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another.Benedetto Croce and R. G. Collingwood advanced the idealist view that art expresses emotions, and that the work of art therefore essentially exists in the mind of the creator. Art as form has its roots in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant , and was developed in the early twentieth century by Roger Fry and Clive Bell.Art as mimesis or representation has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle.

You can read about art in Wikipedia and see some sample.I like one of these.It'sTugra Mahmuds II.

Animated Tughra Mahmud II showing the structure of the calligraphy.
The tughra reads: "Mahmud Han bin Abdulhamid muzaffer daima" ("Mahmud Khan son of Abdulhamid is forever victorious").
Not all of the lines are colored throughout the animation. These lines were added only for decorative purposes. Some of the lines can depending on the interpretation be seen as a name, but some are only for decorative purposes to fill some empty space between other lines.

Wikipedia

Fashion Meets Art

Two fashionable Brits at the Christie's party: designer Henry Holland and model Agyness Deyn

On Thursday, September 4, Christie's celebrated New York Fashion Week with a twist: a Fashion + Art Party. The event, held at Christie's New York home in Rockefeller Center, previewed three of the house's fall sales: postwar and contemporary art, impressionist and modern art, and "Resurrection: Avant-Garde Fashion." With both fashion and art in the mix, the evening's guest list was stellar. Attendees included Kelly Osbourne, the famed daughter of Ozzy; writer Michael Musto; actress and former model Padma Lakshmi; model Agyness Deyn; and Paul Sevigny, actress Chloe's brother and the evening's DJ.

http://www.artinfo.com/

The Creatrix

Mark Ryden's largest and most ambitious work to date, which was first exhibited at the Wondertoonel show in 2005 will be on display at The Laguna Art Museum:In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz FactorExhibition runs: Sunday, June 22 – Sunday, October 5, 2008.

http://www.markryden.com/index.html

Metamorphosis Volume 1 - Publication of 50 Surreal & Fantastic Artists

An art book titled 'Metamorphosis' which presents the work of 50 contemporary Surreal, Fantastic & Visionary Artists. By publishing the work of established artists such as Ernst Fuchs, Alex Grey, Victor Safonkin, Andrew Gonzalez, Martina Hoffmann, Laurie Lipton, Chet Zar, Kris Kuksi, Brom and Robert Venosa alongside that of relatively unknown – though extraordinary – artists.This book is the first of a series that will provide exposure for many more artists in future.

http://beinart.org/index.php

Akbank Jazz Festival

Akbank's Jazz Festivals are among the most important activities in modern jazz. 18th Akbank Jazz Festival, will be held in Istanbul between October 9 and 19, 2008. Aya Irini Museum-Sultanahmet, CRR-Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall-Harbiye, Akbank Sanat - Taksim, Babylon-Tünel, Talimhane Theater - Taksim and Ghetto-Galasaray are the venues hosting the pefromances.

http://www.akbanksanat.com/kategori/195/18th-jazz-festival

Jazz At Lincoln Center Finds Its Footing

Adrian Ellis, who is completing his first year as executive director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

"Increasingly Jazz at Lincoln Center seems to be on solid footing. The average performance capacity was 92 percent in fiscal year 2008, up from 86 percent in 2006. Ticket revenue increased 13 percent over that period. The annual budget has reached $42 million, up from less than $1 million when Jazz at Lincoln Center was founded 22 years ago."

The New York Times

Broadway As Hollywood Farm Team

Katie Holmes, who is making her Broadway debut,

with Christian Camargo in rehearsal for a new production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”

"Broadway, it seems, has eclipsed Playboy as the place to make Hollywood pay attention. There was a time when female movie stars who felt they were being ignored by the industry took off their clothes for Hugh Hefner's magazine. Now they brush up their Shakespeare -- or Schnitzler or Miller -- and hit Gotham."

The New York Times

Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960

September 13, 2008—January 18, 2009

This exhibition shows how artists responded to the railroad, especially in Europe and the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, artists concentrated on feats of railroad engineering, the railroad as a focus for human drama, as a setting to explore light and atmosphere and as a symbol of reflective states of mind. Not until after the First World War did artists begin to celebrate the railroad as a mechanical marvel.

http://www.nelson-atkins.org/

Interview with Mathieu Leyssenne

Mathieu Leyssenne began drawing at a very young age and at only 11 years old.His first contact with digital art was at the age of 14 when he discovered the software Deluxe Paint 2 on his Amiga 500. After three years at Lankhor Mathieu decided it was time to focus on his own work and dedicate himself to illustration.

http://www.itsartmag.com/news/archives/1766-Interview-Matthieu-Leyssenne.html

Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts

Hot Rods, Hula Girls, Hairy Beasts, Himalayan Head Hunters and the Holy Bible are just some of the subjects under discussion by illustrators Linzie Hunter, Rod Hunt, Nishant Choksi and Allan Sanders. No subject is too small for this group of seasoned professional illustrators and adventurers. With clients spanning the world of advertising, publishing, design and editorial this band of battle scarred buccaneers are prepared for the eventuality of just about anything. Their motto is simple : to illustrate the obscure ...and beyond!

Hot Rods and Hairy Beastsis showing at the Coningsby Gallery fromMonday 29th September until Saturday 4th October 2008.Private View Thursday 2nd October from 6.30pm

http://www.hotrodsandhairybeasts.co.uk/

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is going to perform 3 special shows in Istanbul in September as part of their “50th Anniversary” world tour. The shows are sponsored by HSBC Bank. Lütfi Kirdar Convention Hall hosts Alvin Ailey shows on September 17, 18 and 19 at 20:30.

The tickets of Alvin Ailey Amerian Dance Theater 50th Anniversary Special Show are on sale through Biletix and at IKSV (Istanbul Foundation for Art and Culture) (Istiklal Avenue 46, Beyoglu) on August 23.

http://www.alvinailey.org/

Joan Miro Exhibition

Suna and Inan Kırac Foundation Pera Museum hosts a selection of 120 paintings and sculptors by Joan Miró (1893-1983), Spanish painter and sculptor. The exhibition is between May 3 and August 31, 2008.
The exhibition is realized with the cooperation of Maeght Foundation and the artworks have been selected from the collection of Maeght Foundation. Miró’s “Istanbul’da Defile (Fashion Show in Istanbul) - Défilé de mannequins à Istanbul” picture is among the artworks displayed.
Miró’s images have bright colors, lines, and circles and have childlike and humoruous impression. There is a sharp relation between his works and the main elements (earth, fire, water and air) of the universe. The first place was reserved to woman.
Joan Miró is also famous for his engravings, ceramics, and lithograph. He is known as “the artist picturing the poems and versifying the pictures”.
I painted a reproduction of Miro's some pictures for my friend,when i was is high school.

Pera MuseumMeşrutiyet Caddesi, 65 TepebaşTel: (212) 334 99 00

Visiting hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 –19:00, Sunday 12:00 – 18:00

The museum is closed on Mondays.

http://www.mymerhaba.com/Joan-Miro-Exhibition-in-Turkey-3542.html

The European Day of Jewish Culture

European Day of Jewish Culture to be held in İstanbul for sixth year

The European Day of Jewish Culture is organized in Istanbul at a historical Jewish location, the Galata region on Sunday, September 7, 2008.Galata region used to be a major residential area for the local Jewish community in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Several authentic places will host concerts, performances, lectures and exhibitions.

Program :

1-NEVE SHALOM CULTURAL CENTER
11:30-12:30........Ersin Alok: Lecture & Slide Show about the Star Of David in Anatolia
14:00-15:00........Mesut Ilgim: A panel about German scientists who have contributed to the Turkish University Reform in 1933.
11:00-17:00........Sabrina Fresko: Sculpture Exhibition
11:00-17:00........Eti Behar: Sculpture Exhibition
11:00-17:00........Beti Cenudioglu: Sculpture Exhibition

1A-NEVE SHALOM SYNAGOGUE
17:00-18:00........Representation of a Wedding Ceremony

2-THE ITALIAN SYNAGOGUE
11:00-11:45........Sepharadic Synagogue Hymns Choir. Concert Choir Leader: Cako Taragano
12:30-13:30........Cem Mansur - Cihat Askin: Musical Dialogue: A musical search for Jewish identity and its expression in the Diaspora Presented by Robert Schild
18:15-19:15........Ensemble Yinon Muallem: (Accompanied by Sumru Agiryuruyen, Serdar Pazarcioglu, Savas Ozkok, Ekrem Senturk) Concert

3-THE ASHKENAZI SYNAGOGUE
11:30-12:00........Renan Koen: "Bridges" Piano Recital
12:00-12:30........Renan Koen & Linet Saul: (Accompanied by Guc Basar Gulle) Concert "From My Grandma's Song-Book" vocalised by Linet Saul
12:30-13:00........Linet Saul (Accompanied by Albert-Alper-Tracy D.Aziz) Popular Sephardic Song Concert Performed by an Opera Singer
15:45-16:45........Klez-Mez Band: E. Bora Gurel, Ozlem Gurel, Sumru Agiryuruyen, Yuri Ryadchenko Klezmer Music Performance

4-SCHNEIDERTEMPEL ART CENTER
11:00-17:00 Bubi: Painting Exhibition can be visited all day until the 12th of September.
14:00-15:00 Maftirim Choir Concert. Concert Choir Leader: Menahem Eskenazi

5-THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF TURKEY (Formerly Zulfaris Synagogue)
11:00-17:00........"Aron Angel: Glimpses of His Life" Photo Exhibition Curator:Naim A.Guleryuz

6-THE OTTOMAN BANK MUSEUM
14:30-15:30........Anjelika Akbar: Piano Recital

7-GALATA SQUARE
From 19:30 Fast Meal For Ramadan

8-CASA D'ITALIA
15:30-16:30........Tuluyhan Ugurlu: Concert-Istanbul, A World Capital (With the participation of Cako Taragano & Sepharadic Synagogue Hymns Choir)
17:00-17:30........Karmiel Dance Group: Coreography by Verda Hason Dance Performance
18:00-18:15........Lale Roche: Performance about Schindler's List

9-FEST TRAVEL
09:00-16:00........Cultural Tour of Jewish Heritage

10-MATAN BASETER BARINYURT
Barinyurt which is a social aid association connected to Neve Salom Foundation this year opens its doors of its beautiful scenic restaurant all day long to those who would like to take a short break or have a complete lunch in between the activities of European Day of Jewish Culture.
The lunch menu that costs 25YTL has two options, with or without meat.
For reservations: 0212 249 56 64 (between 09.00 and 17.00)
The meal is served by Barinyurt Huzurevi Yardim Derneginin Iktisadi Isletmesi.

http://www.yahudikulturuavrupagunu.com/2008/

Shoe-Art Istanbul 2008

Famous Turkish artists, designers and personalities will reflect their own colors and perspectives to gigantic shoe sculptures. 150 huge shoes will be gracing the most bustling and distinguished areas of Istanbul for two months at Shoe Art Istanbul 2008.

The aim of Shoe-Art Istanbul Project is to promote Turkish products as well as to establish an artistic event in Istanbul. The shoes will be created with the products of Turkish firms.

A lot of shoes will be on display between September 1 and October 30, 2008 and will be auctioned by Antik A.S. at the end of the exhibition. The income will be donated to TEMA (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats) and the Turkish Heart Foundation.

http://www.shoeartistanbul.com/

Brooklyn Museum Presents Retrospective of Work by Gilbert & George

The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of art by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George.On view from October 3, 2008, through January 11, 2009, the exhibition comprises of more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will be seen only in the Brooklyn presentation.
Gilbert and George began to create art together, developing a uniquely recognizable style both in their pictures and in their presentations of themselves as living sculptures.Over the forty years they developed a new format that created large scale pictures, which are visually and emotionally powerful, through a unique creative process.
Most of their pictures are created in groups and made especially for the space in which they are first exhibited.Since 1974 Gilbert and George have used their personal complex grid system to create their pictures, which are now developed with the use of sophisticated digital editing techniques.In the early 1980s they began to introduce bold colors into their pictures, with one or more pictures in each group that were created on a monumental scale.
All pictures in a group share common motifs and conceptual and formal elements.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/gilbert_and_george/

Mark Sinclair: A Photographic Record of the Construction of the Shetland Museum and Archives

The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, has unveiled an exhibition of photographs by Mark Sinclair, capturing the construction of the new Shetland Museum and Archives.The series of large-scale, black and white images - shown in the Long Gallery - capture moments in time as reconstruction developed from 2005 to its completion in 2007.Mark Sinclair: Art on Site runs at The Lighthouse until 26 October 2008.In 2005, Shetland-based photographer Mark Sinclair embarked on an "Art on Site" public art project funded by Shetland Amenity Trust to document the restoration of Hay's Dock, (led by Nicolas Groves Raines), and the construction of the Shetland Museum and Archives, (designed by architects BDP), on an adjacent site.Sinclair's photographs record the construction process of this dynamic new building right up to and immediately following its opening in Summer 2007.This exhibition presents a selection of the 500+ black and white images taken over the two years that the work was in progress.

http://www.artonsite.phatsheep.co.uk/

Brushezzy

A site for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop Brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet! This site is updated every day with new Brushes for Photoshop so check back often and submit your own!
Really cool brushes, and a stupid name :D
http://www.brusheezy.com/

Tutorials: watch and learn

These are my favourite tutorials.They are useful and really simple for those who need to find inspiration watching another artist going through details, painting levels and sketches.You may catch some new ideas from these free videos.thanks to Carlos Cabrera.

Download Books for Free!

You can find beautiful resources in this site.But some of books are opening with Windjview.And you can download this program from here .

http://gekos.no/art1/