India plans huge ‘liberty’ statue Prachi Pinglay BBCNews 6/3/08
“The statue will be of the Maratha warrior king Shivaji, considered a hero in Maharashtra for his defiance of Mughal and British forces… Vishal Dhage, a state government official, said the statue would be about the same height as the Statue of Liberty - which, with plinth included, stands at 305ft (92.69m).”
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Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82 Michael Kimmelman NYT 5/14/08
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Photograph: Karl Blossfeldt
After photographing flowers, buds and seed capsules for thirty-five years, Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) published his masterpiece Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature) in 1928. See a portfolio of the work here.
The German sculpture used his photographs of plants to teach students about design elements in nature. He once said, “The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.”
More of his work here. Plus check out the Peabody Museum’s Manual of Leaf Architecture.
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Photos of last week’s MFA Painting Thesis show are up at the main Art School Gallery website.
Photos from the MFA Sculpture 3 show are up on the Archives page.
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Photos from the first two 2008 Thesis Exhibitions for the Yale Sculpture program are now up at the Yale Art School Gallery website:
MFA Sculpture 1
MFA Sculpture 2
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Former UK Prime Minister and recent Roman Catholic convert, Tony Blair, is slated to arrive at Yale next year to teach a seminar on faith and globalization as the latest Howland Distinguished Fellow.
Blair to teach in the US on faith BBCNEWS 3/7/08
What does Tony Blair have to do with art? Here’s an excerpt from a lengthy Guardian article:
“What is Blair’s legacy to the arts? One dead ice-cream flavour, one problematic lump on a swamp, a lot of public money and few other certainties. When Helen Mirren won an Oscar for her performance in Stephen Frears’ The Queen this year, actors, writers and directors hailed it as a marvellous testimony to the achievements of subsidised arts.”
What did Tony Blair do for the arts? Stuart Jeffries The Guardian 5/2/07
And click here to read about Tony Blair, the rat who sculpts avocados.
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image: Librado Romero/The New York Times
Two new exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art mark Frank Stella’s first solo showing at the esteemed New York museum.
The first exhibit entitled “Frank Stella: Painting Into Architecture” will highlight the artist’s architectural ventures, while another will use to the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden to showcase some of the Stella’s abstract sculpture (pictured above).
See a large collection of Stella’s work here.
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