Thank you to Amy Elliot for this article: Smoking and Artistry: Overcoming Addiction Written by QuitDay.org Artists may sometimes smoke as a result of the stress and compulsion which is common to true visionists. We are asking that all artists from every background, painters, writers, and photographers, to demonstrate their passion and stand together…
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is proud to present a series of eight videos recorded live during the East Coast premiere of the Quiet Music Festival on Oct. 23. The videos can be found at http://bit.ly/11PBLZW. The videos are embeddable on blogs and websites, and can be shared via social media.…
“If you want to work in a creative field, you’re probably better off not majoring in it.” Author Noah Berlatsky, from The Atlantic, addresses the issue of whether having a degree in the arts leads to a successful career as a working artist. “Out of the 2 million art graduates in the nation, only…
Article by Melody Davis from the Capital Region’s Metroland, November 13, 2013 Sometimes you go to a lecture on a rainy Saturday because you’re wondering how you wound up in this effed-up world called art in the first place, and you’re just hoping to forget about the stuffed shirts whose main purpose in life seems…
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News A trove of 1,500 works of art plundered by the Nazis has been discovered in Munich, according to a German news magazine report — a collection that, if confirmed, ranks among the most significant artistic finds of the postwar era. The cache of modernist masterpieces looted in the…