The always amazing This is Colossal website featured the lovely, ethereal air sculputes of Janet Echelman. (featured image at top of this post: “1.26 Sculpture” by Janet Echelman is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0/cropped from original/source) I am a complete sucker for the slate.com’s Behold photo blog and pretty much always click on their photo essays. Love the story behind the photos of photographer Mark Brautigam reacquainting himself with his home state of Wisconsin after a stint in the marines. The New York Times featured Julie Sokolow’s documentary, Healthy Artists: The Movie which chronicles the financial struggles of artists facing expensive medical bills. Important issue not just for artists but for everyone is who self-employed.  

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Caught some cool things from around the world this week on the interwebs: Check out this fascinating 10-minute video profile of artist Ala Ebtekar who has somehow managed to combine graffiti art, Persian miniatures and illuminated manuscripts into unique works of art. Amazing, gorgeous artwork from Rafael Ochoa that spins art history with modern digital techniques to create these intricate, dreamy wonders. BOWIE! How cool is this? A multimedia exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago exploring the career of David Bowie and his influence on art, design, theater and contemporary culture. We have to wait until September 2014, unfortunately, for the opening! Wow. Super interesting story in The Atlantic on How American Museums Protected Their Art From the Nazis.  It’s wild that congress considered painting “gleaming white” monuments in D.C. to gray so they’d be less vulnerable to Blitz-like air raids. And, because I was lucky enough to be in Nashville the weekend before last and see […]

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