A collection of drawings and letters from children living in the United States and from around the world, sharing their hopes, wishes and ideas with then President Elect Barack Obama, has...
created by Karen Hatter | 38 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 504 views | 58 recommendations | 8 comments
The Heaventree Gallery at 661 East 15th Avenue (near Fraser and Kingsway), Vancouver's foremost animal-friendly exhibition space, is hosting the first animal-rights art-show in BC. Gallery owner Aline Beth Marshall believes that the show titled 'art that...
"Earlier this year we took a look at one dozen amazing examples of how mobile phones can be used as the subject of art. In some cases, the phones themselves were used to create sculptures and 3D art. In other cases, paintings and drawings depicted the mobile phone as a...
Trevor Boddy critiques a proposed new urbanist development in South Delta as "a last-gasp attempt to reform suburbanism from within,before high energy prices and new respect for land compels much denserdevelopment." "The 13th of May brought several downer developments — and...
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lots of props for NY-based Asymptote architecture in this article from Lisa Rochon: "
There was a point when the drawings and renderings by Asymptote, a New York firm led by two Canadians, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, were enough.
When building their designs...
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I would not call it 12 Steps to Heaven, maybe 12 Steps to a Clear Mind would be more appropriate for 'Drawings that Will Change Your Life' by Ralph Perrine on Change This. I was especially attracted to 'Balancing your Life'.
"A Greek family has claimed ownership of a notebook they believe to contain early sketches by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh missing since the First World War.
Among the host of images contained within its...
"By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: October 29, 2007
The American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan gets a steady stream
of unsolicited e-mail, messages from people claiming to have discovered
a self-taught genius...
"Earlier this year, XEROX introduced the concept of the “transient document” where the image from the original that was placed on the photocopy would only last a little longer than the average hours in a full...
"The popularity of Botero's art has made him rich -- rich enough to have donated to city museums in his native Colombia his collection of works by artists no less famous in their times than he: Max Beckmann, Edgar Degas, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and others.
But Botero,...
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"The adventures of Tintin and Snowy turned comic books into an art form. Now their creator Hergé is being honored by a mega-exhibition in Paris. On show are drawings, illustrations and recordings -- and documents...
"If you’re of the sort that exhausts the exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery and feels that the drink specials at your local bar are lacking a certain je ne sais quoi, consider this: SWARM, Vancouver’s...
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"AP - Denmark's top prosecutor said Wednesday he will not press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad drawings that triggered deadly protests by Muslims worldwide."
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