“Tattoos can heal people and offer a release, both mentally and physically, for pain and processing for whatever ails ya. They can be very healing.”
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Miró Etchings Auctioned By Grandson To Benefit Syrian Refugees
Joan Punyet Miró: “My grandfather would have done the same thing. He always wanted to help the most disadvantaged, the refugees and those in exile, and would be aware that what is happening today in Syria could happen tomorrow in Spain.”
Pranksters Jailed For Staging Bogus Art Heists For YouTube
“Four men have been jailed for pranks filmed for YouTube channel Trollstation, including a ‘terrifying’ fake art heist in the National Portrait Gallery. … Later that day, the pranksters, who have 718,000 subscribers, staged another fake robbery … [at] the Tate Britain gallery.”
What Do Regular Folks Who Visit The Barnes Foundation Think? (That’s What Dr. Barnes Cared About)
“Barnes (1872-1951) feuded with the art establishment of his day and disliked most art historians and academic aestheticians. It was the unschooled lover of art he welcomed to his great art collection grounds in Lower Merion.” Now that his collection has been in central Philadelphia for four years, “in Barnes’ egalitarian spirit, we asked visitors, ‘What do you like the most – and why?'” (includes video)
More Favorites From Visitors To The Barnes Foundation
“Matt Hanczaryk, 39, a South Philly self-described recovering Catholic and indiscriminate existentialist, says: ‘I was walking around the galleries like I was in a beautiful funeral, then I saw her and it woke me from that reverie.'”
Protestors Over BP Sponsorship Temporarily Close British Museum
“Greenpeace said it was targeting the oil company’s sponsorship of the Sunken Cities exhibition, and called on the museum to end the partnership. The protest today follows two on Tuesday at the museum’s Great Court by the group BP or not BP, which campaigns against fossil fuel sponsorship of the arts.”
The Long Philosophical Shadow Of Conceptual Art
“Conceptual art opened up possibilities of making work that you could call art in completely nontraditional ways: You could walk, you could write, you could take a photograph. A million things you could do could all be art, and that was very, very new, and very radical.”
This Artist Was Filming A Crowdfunded Piece On Climate Change In Paris – And Then The Terrorist Attacks Happened
“We all lose when terror and horror descend, but I look at the creative act as an act of resistance to despair and destruction.”
New Director For San Diego’s Soon-To-Expand Museum
Kathryn Kanjo: “We have this collection that wants to see the light of day and has no physical space. … We show it regularly but we don’t show it steadily.”
Milwaukee Art Museum Names New Director
“The Milwaukee Art Museum has hired a new director, Marcelle Polednik, currently the director and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville at the University of North Florida.”