Kansas residents are displeased with artist Amber Hansen's plans to publicly display five chickens before slaughtering and serving them at a community potluck.

A paint company has commissioned a group of artists to combat pollution by creating murals using a special smog-eating paint.

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  • 02/22/2012

    Kansas residents are displeased with artist Amber Hansen's plans to publicly display five chickens before slaughtering and serving them at a community potluck.

    from the Kansas City Star: "She hopes the Warhol Foundation-funded project, 'The Story of Chickens: A Revolution' will establish a connection between residents and the food they eat. Some, however, are clucking their tongues:  'When people in other states think of Kansas, they will think that we don’t teach evolution in our schools and we do those gruesome, public slaughters of chickens and call it art,' said one local. 'This is just backward.'"

  • 02/22/2012

    A paint company has commissioned a group of artists to combat pollution by creating murals using a special smog-eating paint.

    from the Huffington Post: "Manila is one of the five most polluted cities in the world, and a paint company recently decided to try a unique approach to combatting airborne toxins. The paint, called Boysen KNOxOUT, is made up of modified titanium dioxide molecules that neutralize noxious gases when they are exposed to sunlight."

  • 02/21/2012

    The University of California, Berkeley misplaced and then mistakenly sold a 22-foot-long carved panel by celebrated African-American sculptor Sargent Johnson to the Huntington Library for $150 plus tax.

    from the New York Times: "The university’s embarrassing loss eventually enabled the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, a large museum and research center in San Marino, Calif., to acquire its first major work by an African-American artist."

  • 02/21/2012

    A Washington state senator has proposed selling off the state's art collection in favor of raising funds to help low-income students attend college.

    from My Northwest: "While many of the Washington State Art Commission's more than 4,000 pieces of art are on public display - at universities and state agencies, for example - Senator Karen Keiser, D-Kent said many are never seen. 'So I'm attempting to create a new way to look at our art collection: As an asset to be used,' Keiser said. 'Rather than just sit on a collection that isn't being seen, let's pick and choose those pieces that might be very worthwhile to auction.'"

  • 02/20/2012

    Now that the Bay Bridge has reopened, check out a simulation that allows you to see what it would be like to drive over the new one. During an earthquake.

    from the New York Times: "The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has several elements to help it withstand a major earthquake. The central feature of the span is a 2,047-foot-long single-tower self-anchored suspension bridge of a asymmetrical design."

  • 02/17/2012

    Greek Culture Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos offered to resign after the museum of ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, was robbed, the second major art heist this year.

    from Bloomberg: "Yeroulanos went to the museum in southern Greece this morning to assess the situation after submitting his resignation to Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, a ministry spokesman said in a phone interview given on condition of anonymity. There was no response from the prime minister’s office on whether the resignation was accepted."

  • 02/16/2012

    The founder of the Rubin Museum of Art, Shelley Rubin, has created a new foundation, A Blade of Grass, that seeks to create dialogue about contemporary art beyond a gallery and museum context. 

    from the Wall Street Journal: "Philanthropist and art collector Shelley Rubin has created a new foundation to support artists that fuse art and social action to reach a broad audience...The foundation's inaugural grant of $30,000 will go to New York-based No Longer Empty, a group that brings free public art exhibitions to vacant spaces and pairs unknown artists with established artists."

  • 02/16/2012

    Marina Abramovic signed a deal with architect Rem Koolhaus earlier this week to design and construct her Center for the Preservation of Performance Art in Hudson, New York.

    from New York Magazine: "The Serbian art superstar will seek to raise $8 million to pay for the project, she revealed Tuesday night to a group of art collectors at a panel at Manhattan's tony Core Club, and the museum will be devoted to performance art pieces of "six hours minimum." Some of them will go on for days."

  • 02/15/2012

    Silicon Valley may fail to build community because of its lack of investment in the arts, according to a panel of experts who spoke at Friday’s 2012 Silicon Valley Conference.

    from the Peninsula Press, via SF Gate: "'Silicon Valley is the epicenter for thought about change,” Joel Slayton [founder of Zero1] said at Friday’s conference...Silicon Valley has a higher concentration of arts-centric businesses than the national average, according to the 2012 Silicon Valley Index, an annual look at the region’s economic and social health. But the Valley isn’t ahead by much, Friday’s panelists pointed out. And in general, Silicon Valley has a higher concentration of businesses than the national average, so when residents take that into account, the arts statistic looks even less impressive."

  • 02/15/2012

    While preparing one of Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting for sale, Sotheby's discovered a hidden autograph in invisible ink on the work.

    from the Associated Press via the Washington Post: "Sotheby’s experts uncovered the secret this month as they were examining “Orange Sports Figure,” which goes on sale Wednesday. The vibrant image of an abstract crowned figure is estimated to be worth between 3 million pounds and 4 million pounds ($4.7 million and $6.3 million). Basquiat, a graffiti artist who became a 1980s art star, signed relatively few of his canvasses. But Sotheby’s said ultraviolet light revealed the artist’s name and the date 1982 beneath the work’s layers of acrylic and spray paint."

  • 02/14/2012

    President Obama's election-year budget, made public yesterday, proposes boosting the annual budget for the NEA to $154.255 million—an increase of over $8 million.

    from the New York Times: "Both the president and the chairman of the endowment, Rocco Landesman, emphasized the economic benefits of spending money on the arts. 'A dollar invested directly through the NEA is matched by $8 of additional investment and generates $26 of economic activity in the community,' Mr. Landesman said in a statement. 'In short, art works.'"

  • 02/13/2012

    A planned walkthrough Gerhard Richter's new major retrospective at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie had to be cancelled after the event was mobbed by dozens of photographers.

    from the New York Times: "One day after his 80th birthday, the German painter Gerhard Richter on Friday unveiled a major retrospective at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. A planned walk by the artist through the exhibition space had to be canceled after he was mobbed by dozens of photographers more typically associated with the movie stars up the block at the Berlinale film festival, which opened the day before. Interest in Mr. Richter, already a superstar by art world standards, has surged in his native land around his birthday, and a series of exhibitions and lectures in Berlin and Dresden, the city of his birth, are taking place this year."

  • 02/13/2012

    Painter Will Barnet, art patron Emily Rauh Pulitzer, and sculptor Martin Puryear will join actor Al Pacino and others as recipients of the National Medal of Arts, to be presented by President Obama this evening at the White House. 

    from the press release: "On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM ET, President Obama will award the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal in the East Room. The First Lady will also attend. This event will be open press and will also be live streamed at www.WhiteHouse.gov/Live. The National Medal of Arts, established by Congress in 1984, is awarded by the President and managed by the National Endowment for the Arts. Award recipients are selected based on their contributions to the creation, growth, and support of the arts in the United States."

  • 02/10/2012

    A film—or, as it is billed, "cinematic seance"—on the life and death of Andy Warhol will be launched online at 10:21pm on February 22, exactly 25 years after the legendary Pop artist's death.

    from ARTINFO: "The narrator in the trailer looks a bit more Rocky than Warhol (he's wearing a hooded sweatshirt), but the manic scene splices make the whole thing feel just crazy enough to be appropriately Pop."

  • 02/10/2012

    With the help of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, readers will be able to access Bomb magazine's 20-plus years of archives, which were previously available only to scholars.

    from the New York Times: "A $138,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will make it possible to continue digitizing Bomb’s remaining archives, which, besides the interviews, include essays by artists about artists. The site will cross-reference the work to provide a slice of New York’s cultural history. Everything will be free, and users can access transcripts of interviews between unlikely artists in various fields — Tony Kushner by Craig Lucas; Vito Acconci talking to Richard Prince; Laurie Anderson and Marina Abramovic — as well as find deeper information about the artists’ lives and their work."

  • 02/09/2012

    The Merchandise Mart has pulled the plug on the latest incarnation of Art Chicago, ending the three-decade run of what was once considered one of the world's most important art exhibitions.

    from the Chicago Tribune: "Founded at Navy Pier in 1980 as the Chicago International Art Exposition and passing through other incarnations before being redubbed Next Art Chicago last year to mark its official merger with the younger Next exhibition, the fair had been facing increased competition from other national and international fairs while struggling to maintain a lineup of high-end dealers. It was scheduled to run April 27-29."

  • 02/09/2012

    Exit Art, the New York alternative art space, which previously announced plans to close after the death of its cofounder Jeanette Ingberman, will mount its final exhibition on March 23. 

    from NY Daily News: "In the 1970s, curator Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, an ambitious Puerto Rico-born artist, fell in love. A few years later, they founded an art gallery together...“Exit Art will be remembered for its crazy, cacophonous shows,” says Rachel Gugelberger, who’s curating the final exhibit, a 30-year retrospective, “Every Exit is an Entrance. It runs from March 23 to May 25 at Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave. A final benefit gala and silent auction will happen March 6."

  • 02/08/2012

    The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting have signed a formal letter of intent to merge the two award-winning Bay Area nonprofit news organizations.

    from The Bay Citizen: "Under terms of a memorandum of understanding approved by both boards, management of The Bay Citizen will be handed over to the existing leadership of the Berkeley-based CIR within 30 days. Phil Bronstein, the chairman of CIR’s board of directors, will become the executive chairman of the combined companies."

  • 02/08/2012

    An ambitious plan is in the works to transform the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum into a more efficient and environmentally friendly space, with new fountains, greenery, and seating areas.

    from the New York Times: "David H. Koch, a Met trustee and the philanthropist who in 2008 pledged $100 million to renovate the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center — which was renamed for him — is providing $60 million to finance it. But the plaza will not be named after him...When the plaza was last redesigned, in 1968, attention was paid to vehicular access, leaving sidewalks wide enough for cars, but now, with the Met’s attendance having more than doubled and with it the amount of foot traffic around the plaza, the aim is to make the space more people-friendly."

  • 02/07/2012

    To encourage Singapore's fledgling art scene, a government task force has proposed establishing "no-censorship zones."

    from the Wall Street Journal: "The Arts and Culture Strategic Review...released a report Monday that offered a hundred or so recommendations aimed at improving the vibrancy of the city-state’s growing arts scene...the report explored the idea of setting up “no censorship zones” for the arts, which could result in the creation of areas similar to Singapore’s famous Speakers Corner, the only place where protests are allowed in the state. The idea would be to create areas where censorship is abandoned in favor of creativity and free expression."

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