http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/posts/tags/art/page/1/ en Vox Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:39:16 +0100 Copyright 2006 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss art http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/qotd-todays-top-5.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/qotd-todays-top-5.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/qotd-todays-top-5.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:39:16 +0100 Books, movies films, music; what's in your top 5 right now? Oh, I'm crap at all-time best-ofs, so I'll just list some good things I've read, heard and seen in the past week: Books: The Slaves Of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton is a really absor... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/qotd-todays-top-5.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00ccff89f49f6731?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music qotd books art cinema top five http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/warning-we-cant-be-trusted.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/warning-we-cant-be-trusted.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/warning-we-cant-be-trusted.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:22:47 +0100 I love the warning given below work shown on Artfacts.net: Please be aware that the images can be assigned wrongly! Good to know, on a website whose raison d'etre is to document work by artists. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/warning-we-cant-be-trusted.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00ccff97ebf66ea5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> funny art warning http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/artometer.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/artometer.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/artometer.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:47:07 +0100 An interesting method of evaluating work: Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece. It bases its evaluation on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition. The meas... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/artometer.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c2252c36718fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> technology art gallery machines value metrics http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/between-worlds-a-sourcebook-of-central-european-avantgardes-19101930.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/between-worlds-a-sourcebook-of-central-european-avantgardes-19101930.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/between-worlds-a-sourcebook-of-central-european-avantgardes-19101930.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:14:09 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225288e508fdb.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225288e508fdb-50si" alt="Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910¿1930" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Ooh! This dropped through my letterbox today. I ordered it after a MetaFilter person called scody recommended it in this thread on manifestos. It does what it says on the tin, with brief introductory essays and great swathes of manifestos, lette... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/between-worlds-a-sourcebook-of-central-european-avantgardes-19101930.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c22528942ff219?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry books art writing europe manifestos avant-gardes http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/thread-everbody-comes-to-holyrood.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/thread-everbody-comes-to-holyrood.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/thread-everbody-comes-to-holyrood.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:27:29 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c2252098a2604a.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c2252098a2604a-50si" alt="Whatever Was In Your Head, by Smith/Stewart, Thread at Ingleby Gallery #2" /></a> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225209d3af219.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225209d3af219-50si" alt="Ninth Cu Prime, by Carl Andre, Thread at Ingleby Gallery" /></a> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225209d72f219.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225209d72f219-50si" alt="Purry Furry Version 2 by Jemima &amp; Dolly Brown, Attic Salt" /></a> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c2252097a88fdb.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c2252097a88fdb-50si" alt="Give Me Your Blacklisted by Jemima Brown, Attic Salt" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Two decent group shows, these. Thread is concerned with ideas around a work's place in its immediate environment, and the effect a work has on the space around it. All art has an effect on the space around it, obviously, but most of the artists g... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/thread-everbody-comes-to-holyrood.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c22520991e604a?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> art edinburgh thread eaf attic salt ingleby http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/mapplethorpe.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/mapplethorpe.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/mapplethorpe.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:07:36 +0100 Here's my review of the Robert Mapplethorpe show at SNGOMA, from yesterday's Herald: The first photograph you see in the Gallery of Modern Art's survey of the work of Robert Mapplethorpe shows a little girl in pigtails, clutching her toy bunny ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c225209ca9f219?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> photography review art herald mapplethorpe eaf http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/fine-art-adoption-network.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jack Mottram) http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/fine-art-adoption-network.html?_c=feed-rss http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/fine-art-adoption-network.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:44:11 +0100 This MetaFilter post tipped me off to the existance of the Fine Art Adoption Network, a site that lets you choose a work of art and look after it, assuming the artist likes the cut of your gib and you can afford the shipping costs.On a whim, I si... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jackmottram.vox.com/library/post/fine-art-adoption-network.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e69048e1d00c2252174038e1d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> art sculpture adoption