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Art :: Are you interested in some type of art or a work of art or just Art with a capital A? This is the place to discuss general art questions not involving one's own art and can be art news, art history, methodology, imagery, or about a particular artist, show or event. Please indicate specific topics such as the influence of a particular artist's style on the state of the art in their period and genre, or their influence on the artists of today. This forum is primarily for the those interested in the visual arts, but is broad enough to contain topics from conceptual art to 'happenings' and 'art cars'. We won't leave out computer graphics, fractals and anime in this forum - we are wide open for variety in topics and opinions! This is also the place for Craft, as in traditional or contemporary craft by artisans, with the possible exclusion of refrigerator magnets. Links are welcome, to share sites and images for discussion, and are preferred over posting images so as to keep the pages loading more quickly.
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| New huge cartoon collection respository at Ohio State |
Posted by BumbleBeeBoogie on May, 14. :: 2 Comments
Museum-Collection Move to Ohio State Will Create Huge Cartoon Repository
By Dave Astor
Published: May 14, 2008
The collection of the International Museum of Cartoon Art (IMCA) is moving to The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library -- creating what will probably be the largest collection of original cartoon art in the world.
IMCA has about 200,000 works, while the 1977-founded Cartoon Research Library has more than 250,000 original cartoons along with a huge amount of other material.
"Beetle Bailey" creator Mort Walker of King Features Syndicate founded IMCA in 1973. The museum opened in Greenwich, Conn., in 1974 and then was situated in Rye Brook, N.Y., from 1976 to 1992. In 1996, IMCA reopened in Boca Raton, Fla., but financial problems forced it to close in 2002. An effort to relocate to New York City's Empire State Building fell through in 2006.
"We are honored that the IMCA's board has placed its treasures in our care," said Lucy Shelton Caswell, professor and curator of the Cartoon Research Library.
She added that efforts are underway to provide increased space for the library to accommodate the IMCA material. "It's critical that we have state-of-the-art gallery space to display IMCA's collection appropriately,” said Caswell, who noted that a gallery in the new facility will be named in honor of Mort Walker.
In a statement, Ohio State University Libraries Director Joe Branin said of the IMCA material: "We are excited to make this outstanding collection available for scholarly study and for general appreciation in exhibits and other public programs."
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| Too Many Gurus, Not Enough Teachers |
Posted by Shapeless on April, 29. :: 3 Comments
From the Wall Street Journal:
Art and (Wo)man at Yale
By MICHAEL J. LEWIS
Has any work of art been more reviled than Aliza Shvarts's senior project at Yale? Andres Serrano's photograph of a crucifix suspended in his own urine did not lack for articulate champions. Nor did Damien Hirst's vitrine with its doleful rotting cow's head. But Ms. Shvarts's performance of "repeated self-induced miscarriages" has left even them silent. According to her project description, she inseminated herself with sperm from voluntary donors "from the 9th to the 15th day of my menstrual cycle . . . so as to insure the possibility of fertilization." Later she would induce a miscarriage by means of an herbal abortifacient. (Or so she claimed; whether she actually did any of this remains unclear.)
Ms. Shvarts may have, as she asserts, intended her project to raise questions about society and the body. But she inadvertently raises an entirely different set of questions: How exactly is Yale teaching its undergraduates to make art? Is her project a bizarre aberration or is it within the range of typical student work, unusually startling perhaps but otherwise a fully characteristic example of the program and its students?
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