Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Andy Goldsworthy installation, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University In thinking about how universities can take a more ambitious approach to the arts, we can find a useful model in how society approaches science. The rise of what is often called “Big Science” during and after World War II changed how science was done - [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work embraces the landscape and is lauded wherever he has worked around the globe. So a new project near his Dumfriesshire home is particularly close
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
This week has been pretty un-literary. The main activities in Browser Towers involved preparing for a 10-day stint down at Wigtown for the Stena Line Wigtown Book Festival.
Poets & Madmen (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
What can I say about this documentary chronicling a short span in of landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy's life, apart from: 'Watch it?' An homage to the artist. Not just Goldworthy , mind you. Somehow the piece transcends the individual and his work, which is stunning of course, and becomes a more general portrait of the Artist per se. Goldsworthy's bleeding hands are a testament to artistic obsession;...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
RENO.- British land artist Chris Drury completed a large-scale installation on the dry lakebed of Winnemucca Lake. Located near the boundary of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation 35 miles northeast of Reno, NV Whirlwind is part of Drury's upcoming exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) titled Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds the first major museum exhibition in the
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
RENO, NV.- British land artist Chris Drury completed a large-scale installation on the dry lakebed of Winnemucca Lake. Located near the boundary of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation 35 miles northeast of Reno, NV Whirlwind is part of Drury's upcoming exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) titled Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds the first major museum exhibition in the
design boner (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
If artist Andy Goldsworthy ... " Pebbles and Hole ", by Goldsworthy ...decided to make a lamp, it'd probably look something like this... Grey Stone Table Lamp , at Tonic Home For these reasons, I, Cardboard, declare this a Design Boner.
COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
by Kyle SmallPart of the Earth Art Exhibit at The Royal Botanical Gardens in Canada, the work of German artist Nils-Udo caught CH's eye. His installation consists of a grass-based ramp (or is it a bridge?) leading into the verdant forest of the Ontario backwood. It's a clever example of the intersection of nature and a constructed reality, revealing some of our conceptions of both....
Dru Blood - I believe in the inhere (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Here's some stuff I've been reading latelyish... Crazy Aunt Purl is so sassy! I hadn't thought of how annoying it is for veteran bus driver to be inundated with all of the noobs trying to save a gas dollar: There...
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Wooster Collective presents the six-minute trailer of a new movie about street-artist Roadsworth called " Crossing the Line ." An artist after my own heart, he had dual inspirations to begin making road stencils: Andy Goldsworthy and the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Google Sightseeing (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Dotting the landscape here in Mountainville, New York, is a collection of bizarre shapes and interesting shadows. This is actually a huge outdoor sculpture garden called the Storm King Art Center. Founded in 1960 by Ralph E. Ogden as a gallery for Hudson River School painters, today the 202 hectares (500 acres) of landscaped lawns, fields [...]
Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Presented by Capitol Hill Arts Workshop A Lecture Exploring The Life and Work of Andy Goldsworthy Lecture: Saturday, June 21, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Capitol Hill Arts Workshop 575 7th Street SE Washington t: 202.547.6839 cost: $10 Dr. Matthew Wilburn, Ph.D. will speak on Andy Goldsworthy , a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist, who uses natural and found objects to create temporary and...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Galerie LeLong 528 West 26th Street, 212-315-0470 Chelsea June 12 - August 1, 2008 Opening: Thursday, June 12, 5 - 7PM Web Site Works by: Louise Bourgeois, Iran do Espírito Santo, Angelo Filomeno, Andy Goldsworthy, Jane Hammond, Jim Hodges, Catherine Lee, Sol LeWitt, Nalini Malani, Emilio Perez, Jaume Plensa, Sean Scully, Kate Shepherd, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Ursula von Rydingsvard In A Year in...
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I am only weeks out from a life-changing trip to Rwanda. This is a country where 5% of the population is on the grid for electricity. A place where the gift of ball point pens are received like deposits of pure gold. I tried to explain everywhere I went that I am an artist, but this word received little to no recognition. Even toting my books via motorbike over vast kilometers of dark red dirt and...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
A river of real learning, a rising tide of excellence. Art from students at the school I’d like to attend many days: Wouldn’t you like to do what those students at the Community School of West Seattle do? See also Andy Goldsworthy.
