19 February 2012 - Who's Made A Compass This Week?

State of the Arts

State of the Arts: Artists shaping the world is the Arts Council’s national conference for the UK's arts together with civilisation sector.  It took identify finally calendar week at the Lowry inwards Manchester together with included a alive blog and alive tweeting (check out #SOTA12).

I wasn't paying exceptional attending but kept noticing flurries of tweets which suggested peradventure all was non well.

This is the Arts Council's 5 infinitesimal round-up video


I'm non certain that this is the same perspective equally others who were at the conference.

Below are some reports on the conference.  It rather looks similar those hitting on the topics that affair were really much the practitioners (ie artists) rather than the bureaucrats.  That suggests to me the latter demand to acquire their heads out of the sand together with start rethinking what they're doing together with how they're going close it from the the world up (I'm allowed to state these things beingness an ex-bureaucrat!).  Particularly inwards relation to accessibility issues.

• This is the Guardian's Culture Cuts live-blogging record of the lawsuit on Tuesday - recorded by Mark Brown and Nancy Groves
• If This is The State of the Arts Then It's Not Access for All
• This was Gillian Nichol's written report dorsum for a-n The Artists Information Company

Whilst at that topographic point is piddling dubiousness ACE really wants to involve artists, it does thence inwards a highly controlled together with tightly curated trend that exclusively serves to emphasise its inescapably hierarchical nature together with the extent of its deeply engrained institutional paternalism.

• This is a postal service by SOTA weblog co-curator Hannah Nicklin asking What is it for? Who is it with?.  Looks similar I mightiness take away maintain come upwardly away with the correct impression of what needs to come about next.

For what it's worth I'd position out the adjacent conference to tender together with allows artists organisations to come upwardly up with proposals of how to exercise it improve - together with thence accolade a contract to whoever comes upwardly with the best thought together with demonstrates the capacity to delineate it off.  I'm pretty certain that artists could exercise it if they were given plenty time.  However they mightiness also marginalise the world relations for the Minister aspect of it!

Art Blogs

Robert Genn (Painters Keys) suggested at that topographic point are Five skills worth learning

Botanical art 

• Coral Guest (Coral Guest) doesn't postal service to her weblog really oft - but it's ever expert to meet a novel move from her  Flowers inwards House
• Looks similar Sigrid Frenson (Vegetables equally I am.  She ahas also done a mensuration yesteryear mensuration of drawing rose hips inwards coloured pencil

Coloured pencils together with pastels

• Charley Parker (Sheffield: Part of the International Sketching Community!
• giving public talks close illustrating childrens books

Painting

• A actually overnice postal service Giants yesteryear Ilaria Rosselli del Turco (Ilaria Rosselli del Turco - News) - close seeing 3 exhibitions by Antonio Lopez Garcia, David Hockney and Lucian Freud and what she made of them
• I smiled when I read a Stapleton Kearns postal service on Facebook

There are 3 stages inwards a Stapleton Kearns painting. (1) I am almost done! (2) Gee, I promise I'm doing this right. together with (3) This was going to last actually good.

Printmaking

• This calendar week Lynne eastward Windsor (Lynne eastward Windsor Fine Art) tried tried introducing color to my drypoints using 'simultaneous color printing' or the viscosity printing method, largely developed by Stanley William Hayter.
• Another corking mensuration yesteryear mensuration "this is what I did" illustrating what she does when she's printmaking from Sherrie York on teaching on Hog Island inwards Maine inwards July

Art Business & Marketing

Insurance for Artists together with Art

I've started to aspect at insurance for artists together with artwork. Here's

• Insurance for Artists - tin yous help? is my weblog postal service quest for assist from those who know of effective solutions to artists' needs
• Artists Insurance - Resources for Artists is where I take away maintain got to thence far inwards developing the website based on my interrogation together with your suggestions of what's worth sharing with other artists

Other fine art business

• Brian Sherwin (Brian Sherwin - Art Critic) has a twain of relevant articles on Fine Art Views.  He suggests the importance of 
• thinking close the local context when blogging inwards an article - Art Blogging 101: Think locally / regionally when blogging close art
• the yell yous utilization when submitting a resume to fine art galleries What Art Dealers Expect From Your Artist Resume: Part 1 - your name
• A London Art Dealer (A Month inwards the Life of a Dulwich Art Dealer: Jan 2012 - which is basically don't.  Submit your move to major fine art competitions where the move is assessed instead - together with acquire noticed that way.
• Meanwhile, Alyson Stanfield (Warning: Exhibiting Your Art is Good for You......
• ......and thinks it's no bad thing to preview fine art inwards upcoming exhibitions - Go Ahead together with Spoil the Surprise

Art Economy together with Art Collectors

Stories close fine art collectors this week

• ArtInfo does A Look Back at the Top Auction Lots of 2011
• Surprise, surrpise at the Independent which treats us to the globe shattering intelligence that Rich fine art collectors 'know the cost of everything – together with the value of nothing'.  Bonhams' caput of contemporary fine art tells Nick Clark that industrial plant are beingness treated but equally investments.
• The Portrait of (RTÉ)

Art Education

Tips together with Techniques

• Lisa Call (Tonal values: Light together with shade, a primal chemical cistron inwards making your paintings together with drawings better

Art Competitions

• The winners of the The 13th Annual Pastel 100 competition run yesteryear the Pastel Journal are at nowadays online - with the residuum inwards the magazone.  I take away maintain to confess it's non 1 of my favourite years.

Art Exhibitions

Major Britain Art Galleries together with Museums

• It's the finally calendar week of Grayson PerryThe Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman - which must take away maintain done absolute wonders for the membership of the British Museum (another means of proverb all advanced tickets are sold out - together with take away maintain been for some time)
• Some visitors to Picasso together with Modern British Art at Tate Britain apparently intend at that topographic point are rather besides few paintings yesteryear Picasso on present - although manifestly one-half of the 150 paintings are yesteryear Picasso.  Here are the 'official' reviews - together with interestingly none of them give it a expert star rating - or fifty-fifty whatever star rating at all!  It's also beingness exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, August 4-November 4
• The Financial Times - Probably the most positive is Jackie Wullschlager.  Her review The thief together with the borrowers opines that Although flawed, Tate’s exhibition is essential viewing for anyone interested inwards painting, yesteryear or future.

Its weakness is predictable: most artists are feeble compared to Picasso

• Brian Sewell inwards the Evening Standard - Picasso together with Modern British Art - review gives it 2.5 stars - which I accept to hateful Brian thinks it rather weak.  Trust him to construct the most obvious remark - which is close how stretched the term "modern art" is for the purposes of this exhibition.  He spends one-half of his review giving us an teaching close the touching on of Picasso on Britain - for which I am grateful!
• Laura Cuming of The Guardian in Picasso together with Modern British Art – review indicates that the catalogue is improve than the exhibition.  She feels the British fine art is effectively downgraded when compared to Picasso.

this present is really just focused. It looks at 3 artists who paid precipitous attending without beingness overwhelmed – Wyndham Lewis, Francis Bacon, David Hockney – together with v to a greater extent than who swooned.

• Mondrian || Nicolson inwards Parallel opened at the Courtauld Gallery finally week.  It explores the largely untold human relationship betwixt Piet Mondrian together with Ben Nicholson during the 1930's.
• Here is a Guardian slideshow of some of the paintings inwards Van Dyck inwards Sicily at the Dulwich Picture Gallery 
• an interesting article yesteryear Bella Freud (VIDEO: WSJ review of "Lucian Freud Portraits" + BBC2 programme.  Did anybody else meet the programme on Freud?

London Art Galleries

• "Lucian Freud Drawings" - a life inwards line is my review of a VERY major exhibition of Lucian Freud Drawings - but inwards a London fine art gallery (Blain|Southern Gallery) off Berkeley Square inwards Mayfair rather than a major museum.  My review focuses on what he liked to pigment other than people.  It felt similar a privilege to meet this exhibition
• Another London gallery, the Chris Beetles Gallery in 8 & 10 Ryder Street inwards St James's, has a novel form of Spring Show which opened finally calendar week together with continues until 28 Apr 2012.

For the kickoff time, Chris Beetles Gallery displays all aspects of its wide-ranging stock inwards a unmarried exhibition, encompassing 300 years of the best of British art, from 18th century watercolours to novel paintings, together with also including illustrations, cartoons, etchings, photographs together with sculpture.

• Meetings inwards Marrakech - The Paintings of Hassan El Glaoui together with Winston Churchill (20 Jan - 31 March 2012) at Leighton House Museum (the onetime abode together with studio workspace of the Victorian creative mortal Frederic Leighton 1830-1896). 

Preview

• Some of the biggest names inwards fine art together with fashion take away maintain been busy making eggs.  On Tuesday 21st Feb 21, over 200 eggs are going to last placed around London - for The Big Egg Hunt.  The world volition thence last given the chore of hunting them down!  This was the Eggs on Tour Bus finally week
• The Royal College of Art is host to Ceramic Art London 2012 is the major selling fair for contemporary studio ceramics at the Royal College of Art on 24 Feb to 26 Feb 2012. RCA Ceramics students volition last exhibiting novel move along with 75 leading contemporary ceramic artists
• Double Take – The Art of Printmaking is a collaboration betwixt the RCA together with the University of Kent tin last seen until xiv May 2012 Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building, University of Kent, School of Arts inwards Canterbury.

Art Galleries together with Museums

• Every fourth dimension I meet Charles Saatchi writing close how the electrical flow fine art museum framework works, I can't escape the feeling that this is a human who'd rather similar to divest himself of the cost of running a huge museum ie the Saatchi Gallery which doesn't accuse for entry.  His latest Guardian article A legacy that Turner would take away maintain approved of sounds expert until yous intend close where is the infinite that's going to present this novel collection of contemporary British Masters.  Might it last on the King's Road?
• Timothy Potts has been appointed equally the novel Director of the Review: "Love Pastels" - The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2012
• The Society is hosting an Art Event Evening on Th 23rd 6pm to 8.30pm at the Mall Galleries - with alive music, models together with soundless life on offering together with an invite to bring your pastels/pencils/charcoal together with move with the Members ofDer The Pastel Society. 
• This is The Pastel Society on Facebook.

Pastel Artwork yesteryear Sophie Ploeg (bottom left) together with Ann Wilkinson PS (suite of 5 works)

Art Supplies

• Which was your favourite construct of soft pastels inwards 2011? Soft Pastels: What's your favourite make? (2011 results) on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Reviews provides the answer
• Derwent take away maintain brought out a novel production - the Derwent Art Bar which is triangular water-soluble wax bar which was tested late yesteryear my friend Vivien Blackburn.  This is the YouTube video which shows yous what they aspect similar together with how they move - Using Derwent Art Bars.  It demonstrates what marks are possible together with how they work.  Their novel scraper looks remarkably similar a terrier!  I'm intrigued yesteryear them. (Derwent Pencils on Facebook)

Copyright

• If yous didn't meet my postal service on Wednesday Important - consummate Copyright Survey yesteryear 5pm on Friday there's soundless an chance to respond to the electrical flow consultation on changes to the copyright law.  You tin also respond direct to the Intellectual Property Office's (ie Government's) consultation here: Consultation on proposals to alter the UK's copyright system

Internet

• Apple:  Look away everybody who is non an official Apple fan.  Here are the reviews of Apple's Mountain Lion for iMacs - which basically advise that the adjacent version of the operating programme "Mountain Lion" volition boot the bucket fifty-fifty to a greater extent than similar the ipad together with fifty-fifty to a greater extent than integrated with other Apple products.  The primal message seems to last people honey apps - together with that convergence is the future.  Plus intimations close a novel iMac together with discontinuation of back upwardly for older Macs.
• New York Times - Apple's Mac Makeover - together with this graphic provides a summary of the migration from iOS to OS X
• /search?q=flowers-in-house?mod=WSJ_Tech_Europe_LeftTopNews">Google's iPhone Tracking details how the Google and other promotion companies bypassed privacy settings inwards Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices together with computers inwards social club to rail the online habits of people who created settings specifically to block that type of monitoring.  Invasion of privacy anyone?  (which is somewhat ironic since the WSJ is business office of Murdoch's NI stable!) Apparently the code was at nowadays changed equally shortly equally the breach was identified together with published.
• Cloud computing:  If you've been thinking of using a cloud equally a dorsum upwardly archive together with failsafe for an emergency yous mightiness desire to accept a aspect at this article 
• Right at nowadays mobile apps are to a greater extent than customer-friendly than mobile optimised websites according to Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox however this is changing - Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift

Mobile apps currently take away maintain improve usability than mobile sites, but forthcoming changes volition eventually construct a mobile site the superior strategy.

and finally......

I'm shutting upwardly store afterwards this until I've got my entry for the Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries).

[UPDATE:  I mightiness postal service a fighting of fine art betwixt at nowadays together with then!]
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