Art in the city

Joan Moir @Google

Did you notice the banner over at Google marking the 113th birthday of Catalan artist Joan Miro?

Post Secret book signing

Frank Warren, of PostSecret fame, will be signing copies of his book this coming Sunday at 2 pm at the Gaithersburg Borders. 

"This one's for you, Walt."

The LA Times has an interesting in-depth profile of Thomas Kinkade.  Seems Thom's public behavior can be a little bizarre at times.

Frida Tequila

Looks like the Kahlo family is cashing in on Fridamania.  They're making Frida Kahlo tequila using her image on the label.  Given Kahlo's struggle with drinking, this sounds to me to be as tasteful as John Wayne, Jr. coming out with The Duke cigarettes.  Mark Vallen over at Art for a Change vents his spleen about it here.

Will date for art

I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone did something like this.  Ukrainian artist Maria Shubina has been posting her artwork, self-portraits mostly, on various dating sites.  She'll then hang her work in galleries along with the emails she recieves.  Read more about it here.

EVERY Playboy centerfold

Chicago-based artist Jason Salavon describes his work this way:

Working around art, information technology, and daily life.

Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group, is explored. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. The final compositions are exhibited as art objects, such as photographic prints and video installations, while others exist in a real-time software context.

And using that process, he has given us an image culled from every Playboy centerfold from 1988-1997.  See it here (some of the images at this site are not safe for work).

Portrait of the artist at work

Check out Duane Keiser's "Painting a Day" blog.  He's creating iMovies of his work now.  Check them out here.  Cool.

Just who is the abstract princess?

Got an invite recently to attend the exhibition ""Who is the Abstract Princess?" at Studio 919 in Suitland.  The exhibition will be open for one day, July 28th from 7:30pm-9pm.  Studio 919 is located at 4808 Silver Hill Rd.  View over 25 original works by Ja'Ski "the abstract princess".  It's open for anyone to attend.

A Watercolor Artist's Journal

I just found this blog by Elizabeth McRorie, a watercolor artist educated at the University of Maryland and living in North Carolina.  You can check out her regular website here.

Larry Scott

J. Bowers has a review in the Baltimore City Paper of Larry Scott's "Evolution of Depression" show at Baltimore's Sub-Basement Art Studios.