I really ought to make more of an effort to highlight the links to interesting art stories or aspects of art that now go straight to Facebook - but which used to get highlighted in "who's made a mark"
So here's a list of links - organised by source
Making A Mark
See my Making A Mark on Facebook Page if you want to get links more often
Artists
- Frank Lloyd Wright is 150 this week 7 Things You Didn’t Know about Frank Lloyd Wright is an absolutely fascinating article about him e.g. did you know he amassed a significant collection of Japanese ukiyo-e prints?
- 10 stamps were issued by Royal Mail on May 4 featuring illustrations of songbirds by wildlife artist Federico Gemma - a wonderful wildlife artist (who's in my book!). You can see pictures of Songbirds Stamps by Royal Mail - Work in progress
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| Songbird stamps for Royal Mail by Federico Gemma - to mark International Dawn Chorus Day |
Art on Television
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| Dr James Fox in Japan - for The Art of Japanese Life |
- The first episode is about Nature - he examines how the country's two great religions, Shinto and Buddhism, helped shape a creative response to nature often very different to the West - and how contemporary artists are shaping a new response to nature
- In Cities - he looks at how the artistic life of three great Japanese cities shaped the country's attitudes to past and present, east and west, and helped forge the very idea of Japan itself.
- In Home - explores the art of the Japanese home and how its clean minimalism has been exported round the world.
- definitely worth watching before you visit
- highlights that the curator, Academician and Keeper of the Royal Academy, Eileen Cooper, has tried to make it much more inclusive, international and oriented on diversity
- this is Alastair Sooke, the Telegraph Art Critic, on the Summer Exhibition which he gave 3 stars - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, review: The dependably reassuring last word in déjà-vu
- Eileen Cooper RA gave an interesting interview to the FT - the title now makes more sense to me - Royal Academy Summer Show: the place where art is for all
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| A wind sculpture by Yinka Shonibare is in the courtyard |
- Fancy watching the upcoming heats ON LOCATION later this month for the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2017? Read about the three locations, view on a map and learn about what you need to know about them in my blog post Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 - Watch the Heats
- Earlier this week I suggested that we could all catch a younger (slimmer?) more hirsute, less grey Andrew Graham-Dixon getting it on with "The Medici - Makers of Modern Art" (first broadcast in 2008) on BBC4
- For those who remember the first Big Painting Challenge on BBC... (every episode covered by this blog)
Two years ago Katherine Tyrrell took this photo of us after our exhibition following #theBigPaintingChallenge. We still keep in touch, we are all still painting and still enjoying it... (Anne Blankson-Hemans)
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| from left to right the links are to Facebook - Paul Bell, Alison Stafford, Anthea Lay, Jan Szymczuk, Anne Blankson-Hemans, Claire Parker, Heather Harding, Richard Salter, plus the two not in the pic Melvyn Flint, Amy Goldring |
