Over at Behance, they're highlighting a show by artists Aitch and Saddo called Coffins. It's VERY interesting wish I could see it, but here's a sneak peek!


Check that out here
You know how I feel about moths (or maybe you don't - and if you don't, I'm terrifed of them); but nevertheless, these FREAKING GIANT moths by Yumi Okita are quite beautiful. Check them out here

I don't think I posted this before although I meant to. The Huffington |Post has an article entitled "Your Definitive Guide To Reading a Piece of Abstract Art". Now you know. ;)  here  (Note: what they say about emotion is true: Rothko makes me gasp for breath and "No. 14" has literally brought me to tears. BSP feels that way about Kandinsky, who does nothing for me. What are you gonna do, right? :) )


There's a very interesting article from Paula Roland on the Surface Design Blog; about encaustic monoprinting. At least, it's very interesting to me! :) Check that out here

There's an article here about a fiber show at the Estevan Art Gallery in Saskatchewan, called Hi-Fibre Content. Looks interesting if you're in the area!

There's an article in the FT Times about Susan Lenz's  solo show. You can find that here

Pattern Places has an article about Rebecca Louise Law's flower installations. They're quite something! Check them out here

No street art pictures this week (although you *know* I have some -street art is totally a thing right now) - instead - Sotheby's has a really great article/interview with Steve Lazarides ahead of the Banksy exhibit. Everything you didn't know you didn't know about Banksy! here

This Colossal has a great video of Master Korean ceramists at Icheon Ceramics, here (I've watched it 3 times now). They are all quite different from one another, and the tools they use to achieve their effects were a revelation to me. (Plus the soundtrack is very beautiful.)

Cheers,

Kit

At Beautiful Decay, they're doing a feature about the fashion photographs of Sylwia Makris. Which are haunting and artful... here

More outdoor art, this time at Web Urbanist. OaKoAk is doing cartoon characters in his native France. Check that out here

Related: The New York Times has an in depth discussion about street art - when does grafitti become art? Here

Over on Behance, Carsten Witte has some really beautiful photography combining portraits and florals entitled "Fragrance".  You can see them here

There is what looks to be a very interesting art show incorporating textiles, art books and sculpture, all  "inspired by a single mysterious image of a small glass bottle containing remnants of the substance it contained and tied with a weathered label". It's for a show currently at the Warwick Art Gallery, but travelling to the Mundaring Gallery in Perth, Australia.  Read about that here.

The Daily Record has an article about a show featuring the work of Paula Nadelstern,  Amy Orr, Katherine Knauer and Robin Schwalb at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey called "Semper Tedium: The Slow Art of Quiltmaking". You can read about that here

Also at Beautiful Decay a feature on social activist/artist Nguyen Xuan Huy who "introduces us to the disruptive effects and ongoing legacy of the Vietnam War". The paintings are instructive and disturbing as well as edifying. They're worth seeing, but come with a maturity warning. Here

Again at The New York Times - a  very interesting article about the art market. About the difficulty in selling Old Masters in the current market, it gives unexpected insight into the rest of the art market. “We’re entering a new era of collecting,” said the Paris dealer Giovanni Sarti. “When people come into my gallery they look at the name and they ask the price. They don’t really look at the painting.”  Hmm..  You can read that here

Fine Art Tips offers advice on how to dramatically improve your art. It's for painters but can be applicable to us as well. Here

Following up on the "becoming a professional artist" article I posted a couple of weeks ago, here's one from Muddy Waters called "for love or money" that offers advice on the same theme. 

Here's an article about an AMAZING photographer's work Kiripi Katembo Siku - go see - they're sooooo beautiful.  

 
3.    If things do go missing, use social media to notify people as soon as possible. I posted about the  loss on Facebook when I got the final result of the investigation yesterday, and that post was   shared  over a 100 times, and has gotten nearly a thousand views! I could certainly have used that kind of exposure when it first went missing!



But mostly, it’s upsetting to me that the person who now possesses the piece is a thief: a person with no sensitivity or fellow feeling with me as an artist.



I hope this never happens to any of you.

I meant to share this link with you quite awhile ago, and then lost track of it somehow. It's a bit out of date now, but still offers some great eye candy and an interesting perspective.  An article on quilts in the Huffington Post, here

George Lucas is planning to open a Museum of Narrative Art. The premise sounds very interesting. Would you go? Check that out here

More street art - this time, deliberately interactive, from Kelsey Montague, here

Over at This Colloassal, they're showing Mike Stilkey's new paintings on salvaged books, like so:



here

Because I always love looking at other artist's studios (Cezanne's is still my dream studio!); here's a link to HyperAllergic's peek into the studios of three artists. Check that out here

Sheila Frampton Cooper has a post up about her exhibit in Lauris, France. If you haven't seen her pictures on Facebook or elsewhere, my lord, drop everything and go look. Right NOW.  lol Her work is beautiful (of course),  but the juxtaposition of her very contemporary work in those caves?!? AMAZING.  I actually have those pics saved on my Evernote and I look at that over and over again. Aspirational. :) And and and, there's a video of her artist's talk!  Check all of that out here 

Also over at HyperAllergic, continuing with the Detroit Art story that I've posted about three or four times over the last several months, the latest is that the collection has been valued at just over 4 and 1/2 billion, but will likely sell for just between 1 and 2 billion (different articles I've read say different things), meaning that the city will STILL be bankrupt, so...  <sigh>  Anyway, check that out here


And a last minute entry: Monika Kinner-Whalen has a process post that's the next best thing to a tutorial here

Have a great weekend!!!!  :)

More street art of course, this week from Sainer and Bezt of Etam Cru at This Colossal. You can find the article here

The Palm Beach New Times has an article about Farley Aquilar a contemporary painter. You can find that article here

arlee barr has a great tutorial on how to machine stitch on solubles. I've always wanted to know how to do that! You can find it here

Over at Beautiful Decay, they have the ephemeral art of Hilary Fayle who embroiders leaves. Yup. Leaves. Check that out here

WUMW.com has an article about fiber artist Kyoung Ae Cho who uses her hair and fiber to make quilts and other fiber art. Check that out here

The Roanoke Times has an article about a quilt exhibit at the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center entitled “A Pieced History: Quilts of Montgomery County” in Christansburg, VA, showcasing locally made historical quilts. You can find out more about that here and if you're in the area, check it out.



The Sante Fe Reporter has an article about LaDonna Meyer's new textile art gallery called the Contemporary Tapestry Gallery and its inaugural show called "In Loom". You can read about that here

Busy week this week, so that's all she wrote. Cheers!