whitney roundup

Whitney Biennial slideshow for your art

c-print thursday

Ruud Van Empel

Holly Anders

and Massimo Vitali

cakes and a couch

Check out the Elisa Johns and Holly Farrell

tuesday bunnies

easter bunnies?

Art-Science Nexus today and manana

Andrea Fraser at VES this month!

HATCH, Kirkland Art Show update: We are opening our doors to students at Winthrop, because they do not have an arts show and want to participate in Arts First...so competition for space is something to think about if you are planning to submit work to Hatch in April. Please e-mail us if you have an idea of what you want to put in the show so we can secure your place! Let's make sure we have more Kirkland art than Winthrop art in our own show!

Artist of the Day: Jose Goncalves

saturday-ish

artist+pothole =problem solved

best art history lesson in print

JTK the artist?

J.T. Kirkland

Not Yet Titled, Padauk and Walnut, Polyacrylic on Birch, 2010

Its officially JTK art day! Why? Two reasons. First, I found an artist named J.T. Kirkland, so he is the artist of the day. And second, Kat will be in the dining hall tonight to lead a portraiture workshop. She will give you tips on how to map out the face and sketch a portrait of JTK, like the painting by Gilbert Stuart. Please stop by around 8pm tonight for the portrait session! Beginners welcome!

wednesday under sunshine and snow

Puerto Rican artists made this awesome proposal: 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow', Pablo Leon de la Barra’s proposal for CIRCA LABS proposes a laboratory to explore possible cultural scenarios in Puerto Rico, it functions as a kind of Village Fair/Market/Open Museum, where invited galleries, some of the most interesting young contemporary galleries from the American continent, take over containers which become ‘rooms’ of an open air museum which doesn’t exist in Puerto Rico yet. In the space between the containers, a social space is created where different local artists and organizations will create an oasis-activation zone. There will also be a bulletin board for cultural proposals for Puerto Rico, a reading area, a hanging painting exhibition and an outdoor cinema. With this, within the art fair CIRCA LABS provides an opportunity to envision future possibilities for cultural life in Puerto Rico and creates a different scenario for market and culture to coexist. click here for photos

kitschy and compelling

kiki smith article and another article because she has a new show

At its most creative and inspired, philanthropy can alter lives

artists and social media, good mix?

artist of the day, Beta Local:Beta-Local is both an organization and a physical space in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Beta-Local was born from our interest in promoting an adventurous art practice as an end in itself, but also as a creative engine with social implications. Beta Local is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting critical and creative thought, action and production through an independent and flexible structure comprised of various experimental programs. Awesome, check it out!

Boston University Art Gallery, abstraction exhibit on now!

good hair

great art by famous artists for cheap?

and the affordable fair?

fantastic art blog, something home something.

Calling all Sound

Artists!

CLICK HERE FOR INFO!

ARTIST OF THE DAY: JIM GOLDBERG read article by Lisa Sutcliffe

Happy Friday!

Thanks to everyone who participated in SHOW YOUR HEART, we made $120 to give to the Kirkland Partners in Health fund for Haiti, yay!

If you are feeling procrastinate-y, we might be in the dining hall on Saturday afternoon too, cards and roses and pink shiny stuff for sale.

These awesome portraits are by typehigh, a flickr artist.

bali, weather and caravans...oh my!

The Kirkland Art Q is coming soon! Be on the lookout for an e-mail containing an art survey. If you participate you could win berryline!

Awesome Kirkland student, music-mix-master, Noam Hassenfeld has put together a little song and has generously shared it with all of us! Noam is a music and religions concentrator and is going to Bali this summer to study drumming... yes, I am jealous! You can listen to his version of Gangsters Paradise here. (Note: I had to make a video so you could hear the song, it should not be viewed and listened to as a joint piece.)

a creative take on the weather report

fun illustrations from evan harris

the caravan series

artist of the day is Betsy Walton

Apply to be part of the HARVARD ART REVIEW

Harvard Art Review is currently recruiting WRITERS/REVIEWERS as well as new members for our BUSINESS BOARD and PHOTO/DESIGN BOARD.

Want to meet THEM, learn more, or ask questions? Come to THEIR INFO SESSION - Thursday, February 11 at 4pm in the Quincy Spindell Room (walk all the way to the back of the Quincy Dining Hall, go through the leftmost door).

SHOW YOUR HEARTS, tonight from 5-7:30 in the d-hall! Don't forget to bring some cash to support Haiti and Partners in Health with a valentine treat!

And the artist of the day is...

Catherine Ryan:Catherine Ryan's drawings investigate the relationships that exist between humans and the natural world,

and the tension created when wild creatures are viewed in close proximity with mankind. Ryan's dark observations on life (and death) utilize animals as symbols, while at the same time raising
questions about man's role as predator and consumer.

video arts monday - because someone asked me what constitutes video art :)

A few examples of some traditional video artists...

Martha Rosler

Wolf Kehlan

Vito Acconci

Joan Jonas

even good old Tim Burton

Artists of the Day: Chrystel Lebas and Pepe Smit (who are both photographers and video artists)

the only truth i know is you

Outsider art is art made on the outside, not the inside, which is insider art.

and now, things that are in boston and are awesome.

#1 robot art

#2 cake sculptures

#3 different kind of monster

and the artist of the day is

eric beltz, who is a really nice guy and an amazing artist. check out these pencil skills. pretty sweet.

a day for gators and algae

Nice article via The Crimson, about the arts tasks force... and what that really means.

Really sweet architecture firm from Boston, Howeler Yoon, proposed this temporary vertical algae bio-reactor. Yes please.

Artist of the day: Kenichi Hoshine

Alligators, birds and tigers are all some of Brendan Wenzel's finest.

mark your calendars

Kirkland will be part of the campus-wide Arts First event on April 30th-May 2nd. Our show HATCH, is accepting submissions until April 15th.

february begins again

Interesting article about art and money

girls gone wild

cops and robbers...the biggest art heist in history?

this guy just paints beds

Don't forget to check out the Frame by Frame exhibit at VES, on now until the 14th!

I had a discussion about contemporary 'shock art' with a few tutors the other night. I mentioned Chris Burden as he shot himself and called it art. Here is a nice article about all that.

Damien Hirst was also brought up as someone that people thought should not call themselves an artist, but as one of the most lucrative names in contemporary art I have to disagree. Folks are more than willing to look at sharks in formaldehyde, kitschy or not. His newer work can be seen here at Gagosian Gallery in NYC.

And your artist of the day is... Kehinde Wiley