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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Further Bank Holiday Fun In New Mills
New Mills Arts at Torr Vale Mill had twenty artists, but they weren’t the only artists in New Mills on Bank Holiday Monday. Further up the road was Spring Bank Arts Centre at St James the Less Church. Here Danish … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists, exhibition, Mixed Media, Print, Printmaking, textiles
Tagged art, artists, collagraphs, lutrador, mixed media, new mills, textiles
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A Message to Bridgeman Education from the Rijksmuseum
Regular readers know that I’m currently doing a drawing course with the Open College of the Arts. A few months ago, I wasted an afternoon (yes, even someone who spends far too much time on Facebook and Twitter can understand the concept … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists
Tagged art, bridgeman education, high resolution, images, Johannes Vermeer, OCA, rijksmuseum, rijksstudio, Vermeer
13 Comments
New Mills Arts
This is my 200th blog post! OK, that includes quite a few reblogs, but most of the previous 199 have ostensibly been mine, even if I quote extensively from the ephemera of art. So how should I celebrate my 200th … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Landscapes, linocut, Painting, textiles
Tagged art, artists, colette payne, derbyshire open arts, lloyd stephenson, new mills, new mills arts, torr vale mill, val hudson, valerie wartelle
5 Comments
Good Art or Bad Art? “The quality of art is as objective as physics”
I was reading an article called “Women in art: why are all the ‘great’ artists men?” The item itself is worth reading but what caught my attention was an exchange in the Comments bit at the end: “Man3628732551 24 May 2013 … Continue reading
Just Grab Those Chances ….
This post is really a reblog but, as it isn’t from a wordpress site, I couldn’t work out how to reblog other than copying and pasting. It is by Gail Brodholt and I found it on her excellent Diary of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists, linocut, Printmaking
Tagged art, artist, business, gail brodholt, linocut, opportunity, sales
2 Comments
More About Photography In Galleries
(Being a continuation of the last post) Some years ago, the Management and I were on holiday in Paris and went toddling off to the Louvre. The guide book stated that the best plan was to think of the Louvre … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Photography
Tagged art, art gallery, danny birchall, lacemaker, Louvre, paris, photography, Vermeer
6 Comments
Public Photography In Art Galleries
Two days – two BBC Radio 4 programmes. Today it’s Today – i.e. the flagship programme called Today. For the five minutes at the very end of the three hours this morning, there was a discussion about people taking photographs in art … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Photography
Tagged art, art gallery, bbc, brett rogers, copyright, mobile phones, photographers gallery, photography, rachel campbell-johnson, radio 4, times, today
12 Comments
Front Row’s ‘Cultural Exchange’, Mary Beard And Tracey Emin
I’d heard the trailers for Cultural Exchange on BBC Radio 4’s cultural review programme Front Row. This feature gives creative minds the opportunity to talk about the cultural work that inspires them. Unfortunately I rarely catch Front Row but heard … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged art, artists, bbc 4, bbc four, cultural exchange, front row, Laocoön and His Sons, mary beard, podcast, roman sculpture, tracey emin, Vermeer
2 Comments
Sand, Sea And Spray Is Coming …. Again!
The free paper, Metro, had an article about ‘graffiti’ the week before last. The paper version even started with ‘Take a look out of any moving train and you will see it. But is Britain’s graffiti art or an eyesore?’ The article … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists, Street Art
Tagged agent provocateur, AP, art, artists, Blackpool, graffiti, metro, sand sea and spray, smug, street art, zed 1, zina
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