Throwin’ Out Some Lurve to Art:21 and Sally Mann

I have been tweeting about Art:21 lately because I have queued the entire series on Netflix.
OK, lemme back up.
Art:21 is PBS series that discusses art in the 21st century from the artists’ perspectives. I’m wholeheartedly addicted to it. They have clips you can watch on YouTube and they have a blog which I find very [...]

Chris Jordan: Photography/Collage Exploring the Statistics of American Culture

I first heard about Chris Jordan on Bill Moyers and was intrigued enough to dig further. An ex-corpo lawyer, Jordan now devotes himself to photography full time. In his latest series, “Running the Numbers: An America Self-Portrait” the artist assembles and manipulates small photos into large collages that represent some statistic of American culture. What [...]

Everyday Folks as Celebrities

I stumbled upon The Faces of Bellingham whilst cruising through some blogs, and I gotta say this is a message that resonates with me. Lea Kelley snaps portraits of the everyday people in her town of Bellingham and posts them on this site. She encourages folks to search the site for their photos and comment [...]

Mystery Art: Sculpture at the Centre Pompidou

When ArtLicker was a noob, she took a picture of this sculpture at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and forgot to write down the artist and title.
Can anyone out there tell me about this piece? I love how tender it is and I’d like to find more of this artist’s work. I’m being lazy and [...]