by Meg Onli | Aug 11, 2009 | Blog
I wasn’t very familiar with Mark Dion’s Travels of William Bartram – Reconsidered until about a month ago. For this week’s video pick Dion returns to Bartram Gardens to install the objects he collected while on his journey. “Travels of...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog
The L.A. Times’ Top of the Ticket blog asked Shepard Fairey what he thought of the Obama Joker posters that have appeared around the streets of L.A. and further proliferated online. Fairey makes it clear that while he doesn’t at all agree with the...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog
On July 29, a fire destroyed one of the country’s largest private collections of African and African-American art–more than 300 sculptures, paintings, photographs and works in other media by Kerry James Marshall, Nick Cave, Jacob Lawrence, Romaire Bearden,...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog
I’ve been having one of those Alice in Wonderland-type afternoons on the Internet where you happen upon something that fascinates you and whooosh! down you tumble, lost to the rest of the world for hours. Where did I fall? Into the Library of Congress’...
by Claudine Isé | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog
Check out these super fabulous 1950s and ’60’s era travel posters by illustrator David Klein (then learn more about Klein and see more posters by clicking the link to Grain Edit below). Love these. New York is very Tron, St. Louis is sorta McDonald’s...
