Category Archives: Conceptual to Renaissance Art

Conceptual to Renaissance Art People have been sending photographs such as the ones below as forwards with the subject: “Are these real?” as I receive one the other day. I went and looked it up, and found that they are, these are works of an American Artist called Kurt Wenner who once worked in NasaContinue reading “Street Painting Artist: Kurt Wenner”

Conceptual Art I recently came across a book called, “I Am a Camera: The Saatchi Gallery” and instantly fell in love with photographer Richard Billingham, who reminded me of my personal favourite: Nan Goldin. His photos are of rather disturbing looking characters. People who are obviously alcoholics, extremely poor and live in squalid conditions. WhatContinue reading “Photos: Richard Billingham, Looking at Family”

Conceptual Art How can one measly cow go so many places?? News: Meat from a Holstein sick with mad cow disease could have reached retail markets in eight US states and Guam. Investigators have determined that some of the meat from the diseased dairy cow slaughtered on December 9 in Washington state could have goneContinue reading “Mad Cow Hit Eight States: Damien Hirst”

Conceptual Art The Economist had a short article about overcrowded blockbuster exhibits at art museums. It was released in Feb 2003 but I still thought it was cool. <img alt="artreview.gif" src="https://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/artreview.gif&quot; width="500" height="451" border="0" / The top ten is pretty obvious in why they are popular, but I found some of the empty ones aContinue reading “The Emptiest Art Exhibitions and Gursky’s Union Rave”

Conceptual Art     Bob Carlos Clarke: Bio Photos: Eyestorm

How Odd. After thinking about her last week, I found out she will have a new piece exhibited starting today. I liked what my friend Phil Evans said about her: “I really like this exploration of the space between. Kind of like finally seeing what you bought when you bought that condo: the air inside,Continue reading “Glutter Plugs: New Rachel Whiteread Exhibition, London”

Glutter Plugs and Doodles In 2001, I attended a Rachel Whiteread opening in London an artist who is often touted as one of the top in the British scene. A caster using different mediums instead of recreating what is already there or creating something new, she casts the space around things like the outside ofContinue reading “Glutter Plugs: Change of Heart on Rachel Whiteread, Conceptual Artist”