Posts Tagged ‘Contemporary Art’

Rhizome is an online community and publication “dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.” The site includes contemporary examples of works investigating the intersection of art, technology and culture, with an archive dating back to the early 1990s.
Tags: Contemporary Art, criticism, digital media, new media, technology
Posted by Joan Winter on November 22, 2009 in architecture, art, blog, images, photography, words | No Comments »

The world’s first radio arts station, London’s Resonance 104.4fm promotes a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural dialogue about the arts, history and society. Resonance fosters experimentation in visual and sonic arts, and functions as an invisible gallery collecting and reflecting upon works of art that are new, undiscovered, forgotten or even impossible in order to discover meaning in human-object, human-human relations.
Tags: art, Contemporary Art, experimental art, London, London Musicians’ Collective, radio art, Resonance 104.4fm
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 21, 2009 in art | No Comments »

Reed College Artists’ Book website is an online reference guide to artists‘ books and the significant role they have played among the avant-garde of Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the United States, from the turn of the last century to the present. The Reed College collection holds approximately 1,000 books including the most significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, among them livre d’artiste, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary works. Individual web pages for sixteen of the most significant book works contain a gallery of images to navigate the entire work, a brief biography on the artist, a description of the book and the books colophon.
Tags: art, art history, avant-garde, book history, conceptual art, Contemporary Art, cultural history, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, modern, modernism, visual resource collections
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 4, 2009 in art, images | No Comments »

Alisa Andrasek/Biothing, Model for Mesonic Emission/Seroussi Pavilion Paris, 2007
Andrasek’s Mesonic Emission is a design project is generated by an algorithm drawing upon the behaviors of electro-magnetic fields. Her work appears in Transitory Objects,” the latest exhibit at Vienna’s influential Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Gallery. The curators placed contemporary art besides architectural objects and question “how boundaries have collapsed between architectural objects, conceptual art, and theoretical science.” Read Seed Magazine’s review of the exhibit here.
Tags: Contemporary Art, science, visualization
Posted by Joan Winter on August 21, 2009 in architecture, art | No Comments »

In collaboration with MOMA, ARTstor has released the final series of exhibition photographs from the Museum’s Archives. This latest installment includes over 7,000 images dating from 1978 to 2000. With approximately 16,700 images, the complete Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection documents major exhibitions held at the museum from 1929 to 2000.
In addition, ARTstor has incorporated new images of Islamic and South Asian art from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic art, the Roy Lichtenstein collection made available through the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate, 9,234 additional images from Larry Qualls’ archive of contemporary art, and 5,500 images of European art and architecture photographed for the MET by William Keighley.
Tags: ARTstor, Contemporary Art, Doris Duke Foundation, exhibitions, installations, Larry Qualls, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Art, MOMA, photography, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 20, 2009 in ARTstor, art, image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »

Created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Art Babble “is a destination for art content online.” Art Babble incorporates videos that include interviews with artists and museum curators, and popular art programming–a collection comprised through partnerships with PBS, LACMA, MOMA, the New York Public Library, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Art Babble is a unique tool for accessing video resources regarding contemporary and modern art.
Read more at The New York Times.
Tags: Art Babble, Art:21, concept art, Contemporary Art, IMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, Modern Art, MOMA, New York Public Library, PBS, SFMOMA, Smithsonian
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 9, 2009 in art, images, photography | No Comments »