Artists often possess the skills and temperament that business leaders regularly say are in short supply: creativity, resiliency, flexibility, high tolerance for risk and ambiguity, as well as the courage to fail.
Why art school may be the new business school (via fastcompany)
Short supply indeed….
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Art majors, see yourself heading towards the business world?
So, because this Swedish dude is clever or something, he painted a photorealistic picture of himself and submitted it as his driver’s license photo. It was accepted.
Here’s the official Million Puppet March route map! See you in DC on 11/3
So this is apparently happening right now.
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden art work attracts right-wing attacks
“The right-wing attacks focused on the use of materials from Solyndra to create an artwork, leading the House committee, for example, to claim that SOL Grotto had become the world’s most expensive work of art. Greg Gutfeld on Fox News — a Cal grad — sputtered with rage at the art: “Our loss is someone else’s hip, pretentious art.” He suggested someone should take a sledgehammer to the work and call it performance art, before adding, “I’m kidding, of course that would be wrong.”
“We were totally taken by surprise,” said Paul Licht, Director of the Botanical Garden. “We weren’t making any political statements. It’s an attempt to create news.”
If anything, we should be happy that the usual suspects had something to talk about on their programs other than actual issues.
npr:
The woman, in her 80s, was reportedly upset at the way the fresco had deteriorated and took it on herself to “restore” the image.
BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser says the delicate brush strokes of Elias Garcia Martinez have been buried under a haphazard splattering of paint.
The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic, he says.
via BBC News - Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur
From delicate to derp.
Behold the “Empowered Man,” the latest entry in a series of paintings by conservative artist Jon McNaughton. McNaughton has painted similar scenes to this one before – he has a whole set of anti-Obama paintings (such as this one, in which he sternly torches the constitution), in addition to a couple that advocates of church/state separation might find a bit irksome. Of particular note, in addition to the fact that McNaughton does quite well by these works (he expects to rake in between $50,000 and $100,000 for the above canvas), guess who his “most prominent” patron is? If you guessed Fox News host Sean Hannity, well, you’re right. Though that really was too easy.
The work is called “Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio,” painted using watercolors and ink, and worth $150,000. NYPD allege a man in dark jeans and a black and white checked shirt arrived at Venus Over Manhattan art gallery posing as a customer. He then took the 1949 painting off the wall, threw it in a bag and fled the scene. source
Looking to spend $3,999 on a painting of recently-deceased hellraiser Andrew Breitbart in a coat of armor? May want to rethink that decision, based on this allegation that the armor is actually copied from an Assassin’s Creed video game. (So in other words, this story, in reverse.) Oops.
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Looking to fill your home with fine art without breaking the bank? While many have had success finding home decor with services like Paddle8 or Artsy, Boston-based start-up TurningArt hopes to revolutionize the art industry. The new company plans to use a $10 subscription model, not unlike Netflix, to allow customers to rent pieces of art. Customers may choose from a range of artists, and receive their chosen work(s) framed and ready to hang. Displaying pieces for long periods of time will net you credits, which can then be redeemed for discounts on future purchases, and users have the freedom to change the images displayed in their homes as often as they’d like. So, would you pay $10 for the ability to change the feel of your home as you please? (Photo via TurningArt) source
Edward Munch’s iconic “The Scream” sells for $119.9 million: We’re with you, freaked-out screaming guy.
Greatest Hits, a group of Australian artists, worked with a fragrance supplier in France to create a fragrance that they say replicates the smell of a newly opened Apple Macbook. It’s not for sale, and was only created for use during an upcoming exhibition in Melbourne. So just what exactly is the scent? According to Air Aroma, it “encompasses the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China.” Of course. (Photo via Air Aroma) source
» Selling art like a commodity: Kinkade, who died of natural causes on Friday according to his family, was widely-exposed to the world, but criticized among his peers, who felt his warm, light-heavy paintings were lacking in substance. But critics be damned — he was incredibly popular among mainstream audiences. Even so, what Kinkade brought to the world most was a business approach to distributing art, which at times included selling his work on networks like QVC. ”There’s been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn’t been, until now, million-seller art,” Kinkade said in a 2001 interview. “We have found a way to bring to millions of people, an art that they can understand.” Kinkade was 54.
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