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A Delayed Who's Made A Rate This Week?

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At a fourth dimension of gift-giving Lisa Call posted this quotation on Facebook this calendar week - together with I noticed it peculiarly because it is the celebration of the efforts of others which was the original driving force behind the Making H5N1 Mark Awards
‎"The finest gift yous tin forcefulness out plow over anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no 1 gets the encouragement they involve to grow into their total potential. If everyone received the encouragement they involve to grow, the genius inwards most everyone would flower together with the the world would make abundance beyond our wildest dreams."
Sidney Madwed
There's nevertheless fourth dimension to nominate fine art blogs together with artists for the Making H5N1 Mark Awards.  You tin forcefulness out run into which topics are covered yesteryear which post at the transcend of the column on the correct manus side.  I explained how the awards go in Best Pictures together with Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review

However - hither are some quick links for NOMINATIONS
Also it gets a fight busy inwards Dec amongst preparations for Christmas together with getting the Making H5N1 Mark Awards underway!  So this is a delayed Who's made a Mark - together with it volition also hold out the finally 1 until early-mid Jan every bit I'll hold out taking a few days off to inwards the early on New Year.

Skaters at the Ice Rink together with the Natural History Museum
Urban Sketchers 3rd Sketchcrawl Dec 2012
© Katherine Tyrrell

Artists together with Art Blogs

Yesterday RIP - artists who died inwards 2012 reviewed artists together with those associated amongst fine art who died inwards 2012.  They include somebody who got me dorsum into fine art after to a greater extent than than a decade of doing nothing.

Botanical Art
Drawing
The restoration volition hold out long together with difficult, non to the lowest degree because Rothko often used odd materials, including eggs together with glue, to practise his works.
Sculpture
  • The furore caused yesteryear my local council trying to sell a Henry Moore statue which was gifted to the people of London - together with originally located on a housing estate inwards Bethnal Green - continues.  Nearly 3,000 people conduct maintain signed a petition to halt the sale together with a issue of prominent people spoke out against it. According to the Museums Association a Legal challenge threatens sale of Moore sculpture which may yet run into the statue both render to London from the Yorkshire Sculpture Park together with hold out on persuasion for the populace to see. The Minister has also stepped inwards together with said the legal ownership must hold out resolved earlier it is sold.  I don't mean value he needs to worry on that score every bit the auction houses won't deport on it without proper paperwork which establishes ownership.
Who painted this?
  • "Who painted this #7 - was indeed Leonardo da Vinci's Study of a Woman's Hands - business office of the Royal Collection.  Masses of yous recognised it every bit beingness a drawing by Leonard da Vinci - together with then I've ready yous a much harder 1 for Who painted this? #8
  • The Art Institute of Chicago is running a projection called "Unwrap a Masterpiece on Facebook - it's much to a greater extent than obscure together with much easier than my challenge - these are the rules! See https://www.facebook.com/artic
Art Business & Marketing

Art Fairs
Branding
At some degree he realised that exactly beingness a prodigiously talented painter was non enough. At first, it was his fine art that fascinated the public, but afterward his wealth (his build value) became the fascinator itself. Cleverly, he dumped his given-name of Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. He became simply “Picasso”, a vivid fight of build management.
Copyright
Art Collectors
Art Competitions
  • This is my annual post near the BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries. This yr the kickoff prize has been increased to £30,000. The Second Prize winner volition have £10,000 together with the BP Young Artist Award winner £7,000.  Changes conduct maintain also been made to arrangements for getting go to London together with at that spot volition hold out no organised regional collections.
  • I'm certain all of yous conduct maintain had those emails which invite yous to go business office of a publication which you've never heard of.  By together with large they are to a greater extent than often than non spammy and/or aspirational stuff yesteryear entrepreneurial individuals.  However Thames together with Hudson is a reputable publisher inwards the Great Britain together with 1 which has a skillful make of art books in its portfolio.  Hence why it mightiness hold out worth taking a aspect at their fine art contest which aims to find 100 Painters of Tomorrow.  You tin forcefulness out abide by out more information from this download on their website 100paintersoftomorrow.com when it launches on fifteen Jan 2013. Plus there's a Facebook page | Twitter. Closing engagement for applications  will be 15 March 2013
Art Education

 Tips together with techniques
Art Books and Magazines
Art Exhibitions

UK - Major Galleries
  • Previously I had written the Review: New English linguistic communication Art Club Annual Exhibition 2012 which I didn't abide by every bit interesting every bit usual.
    • North America
    Techies
    • There's been a major fake pas yesteryear Instagram this week.  Amid a lot of bickering betwixt Instagram together with Twitter, Instagram announced changes to its damage of service which clearly suggested that they would hold out able to sell people's photos for adverts - see Instagram wants correct to sell photos. Big error - people started to kicking upward a fuss and/or go out inwards droves.  Instagram is at 1 time trying to abide by a agency dorsum - but volition conduct maintain damaged its build reputation forever.  They've at 1 time reverted to the former damage - but some of those who dumped Instagram - similar National Geographic, conduct maintain non yet gone back.
    • Google's Webmaster Central spider web log this calendar week identified novel tools and a small-scale listing of tips & tricks for those wanting to verify their website amongst Google - see Webmaster Tools verification strategies
    • Mashable provides a guide to Facebook Rolls Out Privacy Shortcuts inwards Plain English
    and finally......

    Wishing yous all a skillful together with rubber journeying if you're travelling to hold out amongst friends or identify unit of measurement over the Christmas festive season.  Mind the H2O ice together with don't drive through those fords!  (It's raining 1 time to a greater extent than inwards the UK!)

    Ai Weiwei's Christmas screensaver: permit his Door Gods protect your home
    click the link to read the explanation together with the comments
    The Guardian has real kindly arranged Artists' Christmas screensavers 2012 - here's links to three:

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