Brand New!! 15Th January 2012 - Who's Made A Order This Week?

Woldgate Woods, 21, 23 & 29 Nov 2006, 2006 past times David Hockney
Oil on six canvases, 182 x 366 cm
Courtesy of the Artist | Copyright David Hockney | Photo credit: Richard Schmidt

The PR machine for the major exhibition David Hockney - H5N1 Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy of Arts is straight off inward overdrive.  David Hockney is straight off all over the Television, radio as well as newspapers - which if, every bit I do, yous come about to back upward people who paint landscapes plein air and think developing skills inward drawing is really of import is grand!

Here are some links to recent items virtually Hockney as well as the exhibition

• You tin orbit the axe run across some of the paintings inward the exhibition inward a slideshow on the BBC website - Natural phenomena: David Hockney at the Royal Academy 
• There was a nifty article inward the Guardian yesterday - David Hockney: a life inward art
• Plus Martin Gayford comments on Hockney's preference for some of the traditions of the artistic life - see Hockney Snipes at Hirst, Says Bring Back Boozing: Martin Gayford
• There's an hr long Radio iii programme inward which Rachel Campbell-Johnston talks to David Hockney at his Bridlington dwelling theatre as well as his studio ahead of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy is available on iPlayer Catchup - see Sunday Feature - New Ways of Seeing amongst David Hockney.  It's definitely good worth a hear (I receive got it playing now!) There's also a Radio Times article.

Importantly for Great Britain readers anybody planning to run across this exhibition, the bookings for this exhibition are apparently currently exceeding those for the recent Van Gogh blockbuster exhibition.  Given the recent hiatus over at the National Gallery (see The Da Vinci Queue) if you'd similar to sentiment it I actually would recommend booking

I'm seeing the exhibition at the preview on Tuesday.  However my sis is paying a flight see from Commonwealth of Australia inward early on Feb as well as - despite the fact I'm a friend of the RA as well as tin orbit the axe usually see exhibitions without queuing or buying a ticket - I've had to majority a slot to select her.  The thought is to avoid exhibitions beingness spoilt due to over-crowding.  I tin orbit the axe confirm it's really slow to majority online as well as impress your tickets at home.

The exhibition is organised past times the Royal Academy of Arts, London inward collaboration amongst the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao as well as the Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Art as well as Art Blogs
First I receive got a confession to make.  I went to the Guildhall Art Gallery this afternoon instead of writing this post as well as then that I could see an exhibition I'd forgotten to become as well as see.  I know you'll all understand!  Thanks to Charley Parker for reminding me via his post on Part 1 as well as Part 2) who paints inward both oils as well as pastels.  She started a spider web log a patch agone - Passions on Paper as well as Canvas - only it stopped inward 2010 - more's the pity Nature as well as Wildlife

• Irene Brady (Nature Drawing amongst Irene Brady) is dorsum nature journaling over again - this fourth dimension inward Belize
• Back from Belize, amongst lots to say
• Nature Journalising inward Belize
• Nature Journaling inward Belize 2
• I dear it when I larn a even along amongst sketches - yous larn plane dramas on A expiry inward the park 
  from Sketching inward Nature past times Debbie Drechsler

Painting

• Check out Rob Adams Painting blog - as well as his tape of A Wet as well as Windy Yule inward the Burren inward the far West of County Clare.  He continues in Oils from Republic of Ireland as well as Abstract Musings.  I similar people who write virtually prototype as well as Rob has been added into my Google Reader
• Your Paintings has launched on Twitter amongst the aptly named @Your_Paintings and the tweeting volition live done by The Public Catalogue Foundation

It feels a flake strange to highlight amongst 2 people who aren't blogging correct now.

• I spotted Major Art Exhibitions inward London inward 2012.  If yous know someone who's coming to London yous powerfulness desire to ship them a link.
• This yr I crunch the Guardian/Observer who today posted Hockney, Freud, Turner as well as Hirst: fine art blockbusters of 2012
• Meanwhile the Telegraph has looked exterior London amongst The Best Exhibitions of 2012

Exhibitions inward Major Art Galleries as well as Museums - North America

• Bloomberg reports that attendance figures at the major museums inward New York receive got been a mixed bag:
• visitors to exhibitions at the Met are upward - to 5.6 i M m - only Alexander McQueen generated a lot of that
• while MOMA's visitors are dropped eleven percentage lastly flavour to 2.8 million.  Bloomberg suggests that the previous shows were hard acts to follow.  I propose Bloomberg takes a await at the visitor numbers for Tate Modern (5 i M m visitors inward 2010) - run across Top 10 Art Galleries as well as Museums
• For some argue I can't fathom, annual listings of upcoming exhibitions seems to live confined to the UK.  Maybe it's something to practise amongst distance - or possibly my browsers got altogether too personalised!  Where's the best identify to await for listings of the don't immature lady exhibitions?
• Yahoo intelligence came upward amongst North American fine art exhibitions inward 2012

Calls for Entries - Art Competitions

• It's also tardily to movement into the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 because yous needed to receive got registered past times lastly Wednesday.  The exhibition volition live at the Bankside Gallery 24 Feb - xiv March (and today I saw a sign proverb that Blackfriars Station reopens towards the halt of Feb which helps construct visiting the Bankside that much easier)
• However yous receive got until the halt of side past times side calendar week to submit entries for:
• John Moore Painting Prize 2012: Call For Entries registration deadline 20 Jan 2012
• David Shephard's Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 Deadline for entries - 21st Jan 2012 (more data virtually past times competitions)

Calls for Entries - Art Societies

• Tuesday 17th Jan is the receiving 24-hour interval for the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters inward Watercolour
• The Colored Pencil Society of America receive got announced the artists selected for the Explore This! 8 - which is an online exhibition of multi-media fine art involving coloured pencils.

Art Society Exhibitions

• The Mini Picture Show at the Bankside Gallery closes side past times side weekend.  It includes industrial plant past times members of the Royal Watercolour Society as well as the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
• If yous similar forest engraving it's worth making a trip to:
• London as well as the Bankside Gallery to run across the 74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers.  The operate on present is of a really high lineament as well as I uncovering it hard to exit without buying something.  
• Manchester to run across an exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers Archive - which opens tomorrow

Art Education


Art Holidays / Workshops / Classes

• Karin Jurick (A Painting Today) has A Painting H5N1 Day - San Francisco workshop in April
• I spotted an fine art vacation amongst a divergence on Mark Hanson's blog Painting my agency through life - run across  A Painting as well as Yoga Holiday inward Normandy, French Republic - August 2012!!!
• Deborah Paris has her Winter / Spring 2012 Schedule of regular online classes upward on her spider web log Deborah Paris Workshops as well as Online Classes

Tips as well as techniques

• Sadie Valeri (tips as well as techniques virtually varnish dorsum inward Apr 2011 

Art Critics

• My post A v infinitesimal interview amongst Brian Sewell references a BBC video as well as his autobiography as well as another lilliputian known facts virtually the UK's most controversial fine art critic

Art History

• This is the website of The Association of Art Historians 

Art Studios

• Sadie Valeri has a New Studio for the New Year - inward which she volition live offering a programme of classes as well as workshops

Copyright

• On Tuesday I wrote virtually the Consultation on Remedies for Copyright Small Claims (USA).  This affects every creative someone inward the USA who's reading this spider web log as well as sells work.  ArtInfo commented on the iniaitive in Is It About to Get Much Easier for Artists to Bring Copyright-Infringement Lawsuits?
• ArtInfo also had an article about The British Art Market Federation's Chairman on the "Corrosive Effect" of Droit de Suite.  All that's changed is that an artist's household unit of measurement tin orbit the axe straight off taste this practise goodness every bit good every bit the artist.
• Andy Warhol's appropriattion of the artwork of other artists/brands appears to live coming dwelling theatre to roost.  Bloomberg reports that the Velvet Underground receive got filed a electrical load of infringement - virtually a banana pattern on an album!

Opinion Polls

85% of yous dear "Color as well as Light" !

You tin orbit the axe answer to the Jan POLL: First Impressions: what makes yous exit an fine art website fast - it's inward the correct manus column.

Webware, mesh as well as blogging

• It happens to the best of us - at that topographic point were reports today that the Twitter business organisation human relationship of the Huffington Post got hacked and tweeted rather differently to usual.......

and finally

• Surprise, surprise! Artists are slightly to a greater extent than probable than average to alive inward tiptop 1% households inward price of income according to the New York Times - The Top 1% - what jobs practise they have?

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