June 2011
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The lack of progress for women in the art world →
artlistpro:
Only 8 percent of the work that the Museum of Modern Art exhibits is by women.
Only about 23 percent of solo gallery shows at top New York sites feature pieces by female artists.
Women are consistently only 15% of the names on Artforum‘s, Art + Auction‘s, and ArtReview‘s annual “power lists.”
Click on above link to read the full article.
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“When Krasner was a student at the National Academy of Design in 1929, a rule was...”
– ARTINFO - Seven significant — or just surprising — things revealed by Gail Levin’s research for her new book, “Lee Krasner: A Biography”
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Miniature Cabiniet of Curiosities
This weekend I stocked the cabinet on stand in my dollhouse kitchen with some tiny seashells, coral, pine cones, a small chunk of amethyst and a multicolored stone I cannot identify for the life of me. My original plan was to build a collection of blue & white china in miniature, but I couldn’t wait to fill mine with objects related to nature & geology after seeing this, which is...
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Delft Redux
Conjoined plates by Amsterdam-based artist, Maxime Ansiau.
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Marilyn Juggaroe
We recently acquired (found on the street) a (Milton Greene?) Marilyn Monroe printed on canvas, so naturally Wira & I had to collaborate on another iconic Marilyn makeover — The Juggalo.
I apologize for the low quality of my cellphone pictures but this all went down late in the evening yesterday on a whim - I’ll photograph the piece properly once it is in situ. We used colored...
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MY MINI MIES!
One of the BEST things about getting into dollhouses is that once people know you’re looking at everything through a miniature lens, they kinda start to as well, and before too long, you’re being gifted all sorts of miniscule treats - a little tube of metal that looks like a rolling pin, a piece of electronics packaging shaped like a hot tub, the inside of a chocolate box that could be...