ART NEWS
British store amasses finger, thumb photo collection January 24,
2000 -- Supermarket chain Tesco Plc is going for a place in the Guinness
Book of Records after collecting 24,000 photographs of fingers and thumbs
accidentally captured on film by Britain's amateur photographers.
The supermarket chain built its collection of blurred digits in a year
from customer film sent in for processing. "We've got photographs of fingers
and thumbs taken at weddings, birthday parties and at holiday destinations
from around the world," said Andrew Clark, head of film processing for
the store. "The third finger of the right hand is the most popular finger
to photograph because it tends to fall naturally in front of the lens."
Tesco does not charge for ruined prints so kept the obscured shots for
its collection.
It has now written to the Guinness Book of Records asking if its cache,
currently stored in a warehouse awaiting recycling, makes the record books.
Britain touts ambitious museum expansion plans
January 21, 2000
LONDON -- A dozen new and expanded museums will open in England in the
spring, the biggest such program in British history, Culture Secretary
Chris Smith said Thursday. "For sheer scale and importance there has not
been such a concentration of new work and new presentation of collections
since the South Kensington museums were opened (in London) in the second
half of the 19th century," Smith told reporters.
The program was launched with more than US $640 million from the national
lottery. The only two projects outside London are the New Art Gallery
at Walsall near Birmingham -- to house an art collection bequeathed by
the widow of New York sculptor Jacob Epstein, who made his career in Britain
-- and The Lowry at Salford near Manchester as a home for the works of
the painter L.S. Lowry, who depicted working-class life.
The other main projects opening this spring are developments at museums
in London, including Dulwich Picture Gallery, Imperial War Museum, National
Portrait Gallery, Science Museum, Tate Gallery and Wallace Collection.
A new museum is being built inside Somerset House, the former government
offices off London's Strand, for 800 works of gold, silver, mosaics and
gold boxes worth $120 million given to the nation by Sir Arthur Gilbert,
a Londoner who made his fortune developing real estate in California.
Touring exhibit promotes Rockwell revival January 19, 2000 ATLANTA
-- In earlier years, the works of Norman Rockwell were disparaged as pedestrian
by the art world.
Now his depictions of daily life are attracting patrons by the thousands
to Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The museum is the first stop for a traveling
exhibit titled "Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People." It
features more than 70 original oil paintings and hundreds of magazine
covers the artist designed for The Saturday Evening Post.
Nearly 225,000 tickets for the show have been sold during its three-month
run in Atlanta, according to the High. The exhibit is scheduled to travel
to six more U.S. cities during the next two years after it leaves the
High at the end of January.
Dates
After leaving the High on Jan 30, the exhibit is to travel to :
Chicago Historical Society (Feb 26 - May 21, 2000);
The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington (June 17 - Sept 24, 2000);
San Diego Museum of Art (Oct 28 - Dec 31, 2000);
Phoenix Art Museum (February 21 - May 6, 2001);
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts (June 9 - Oct
8, 2001);
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Nov 7, 2001 - Feb 11, 2002).
Not
your usual nude pictures January 12, 2000
NEW YORK -- Some unusual wrinkles in two art galleries featuring nude
photos are shocking some art lovers. They don't have anything against
naked flesh, it's just that they feel the flesh is too mature to be a
suitable photographic subject.
ARTISTS
Well
we have four artists that will be on show here very soon, all with interesting
and varying styles.
Included here will be examples of their work, a profile on each artist and a means of contact.
If you know of people who you think may benefit from having their work on show either let us know of them or get them to contact us and we can organize viewing their work and getting them up here.