Art in the city

Testudo update

Here's an update, with pictures and sketches, of the progress being made on that public art project that the University of Maryland is running.

The year in Lenny...

Lenny Campello gives his wrap up of the art news of 2005 here.

Warning...

...this will make you feel old.  It's video of an 11 year old kid working the pads. 

Call for entries: Making an entrance

First, it was donkeys and elephants, then pandas and turtles.  Now, it's doors.  "Making an Entrance" is  a collaborative public art exhibit of the Columbia Art Center and Columbia Festival of the Arts.  Artists are invited to submit proposals for transforming a functional, everyday wood door into an extraordinary work of art.  Artists whose designs are sponsored will be given a door to paint, sculpt, or adorn using any media that can withstand the outdoors for a 3 day period.  Selected artists will receive a $1000 stipend.  Finished doors will be displayed during the Columbia Festival of the Arts, June 9th-24, 2006.  Deadline for proposals is February 10, 2006.  Click here for more information.

Call for entries: Brooklyn Underground

The Brooklyn Underground, founded in 2002, has been running an annual film festival since that time.  They are also looking for art submissions.  Click here for more info on submitting film and here for submitting art work.  Deadline is January 19th.

UPDATE: I just read that it's NYC area artists only.

The fading rural mueum

Bruce Courson, director of the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, MA, has a good article in the Wall Street Journal opinion page on the dying rural museum, why they're dying, and what can be done to turn things around.  Check it out here.

A cabinet of mathematical curiosities

Interesting article on 3-D modeling of mathematical ideas over at Sciencenews.org.  Check it out here.