or is it "We ARE still kicking!"
Serious spring fever; daffodils in the snow; spring cleaning; belt-tightening; and holy moly, Matisse in the house!! (And he brought ALL his friends!)
Latest issues
American Woodturner (Spring 2009, v.24, no.1)
- Article by Terry Martin features photo of Allie with artist Binh Pho with his piece, Realm of Dreams, now part of The Mint Museum collection.
Crafts: the magazine for contemporary craft (January/February 2009) - Ceramics historian Garth Clark on "The Death of Crafts" - an excerpt from a recent lecture. Provocative, yes? Listen to the entire lecture "How Envy Killed the Crafts Movement" from KBOO radio in Portland, sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Craft & Pacific Northwest College of Art. You can listen online or download the audio file.
Shout out to Tilleke Schwarz in The Netherlands! Tilleke was a featured artist in the Fiberart International 2007 exhibition and we have a link to her website on the exhibition wiki page. She just emailed to update the link as she has a new URL for her website. It is a nice reminder that even when an exhibition is over and the wiki page is relegated to the "Previous exhibitons" link, they are still being accessed and used! Thanks Tilleke! (And so you know, her new URL is www.tillekeschwarz.com)
Arts and the economy
- Check out this NPR broadcast on the stimulus package and the arts. Select the "Listen" link.
- This Arts in Crisis podcast from WBUR Boston's "Here and Now" program features Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center, who has started a FREE and confidential consulting service for arts organizations in trouble (and which aren't??) It is called Arts In Crisis: a Kennedy Center Initiative.
We are all in this together after all.
New stuff
Had to step up (ahem) the titles we had on shoes, and got some great ones! New titles include: Platform Shoes: A Big Step in Fashion, and The Seductive Shoe: Four Centuries of Fashion Footwear. Some other new goodies include:
- Artist's Estates: Reputations in Trust - a collection of interviews with heirs to artist's estates and their frustrations, emotional and financial strains as well as discussions with lawyers, gallery dealers and foundaton directors.
- Degas and New Orleans: a French Impressionist in America - thank you Charles for this timely donation!
- Act/React: Interactive Installation Art - from the Milwaukee Art Museum, which "explores a new and growing body of interactive installaton art that calls on viewers to use their bodies in an intuitive and nontechnical way." Includes a 60 min. DVD.
Last but not least
Check out the Mint Wiki's new look! I'm still playing with colors and I haven't yet figured out how to change the background from white, but . . . Please let me know if you spot anything out of kilter or missing or anything strange!
