A Call to end Media Prejudice in the Arts

Always outlandish and an amazing artist and thinker... Judith Schaechter takes on art vs. craft with moxie.

"Militant Ornametnalists, unite! And don’t cow to these harmful and ignorant beliefs. Stand up for the gloriousness of your chosen profession and be happy and secure in the knowledge that devotion to materials and process are just as righteous a path to enlightenment as anything else."

click here for a great article on Judith Schaechter's blog

Art Phag - Judith Schaechter

The Craftier the Better

Click here to read and Interview with Wim Delvoye on Huffpost

"I suggest that the only legitimate use of traditional crafts these days seemed to be in the domain of tourism. "It is the forces of democratization," said Delvoye."

Free Ai Weiwei

He created the sunflower room at the Tate, with over a million handmade sunflower seeds, and was one of the designers of the "bird nest" stadium at the Bejing Olympics. Arrested for "economic crimes" he has always been outspoken on Chinese politics.
click here for NYTimes opinion

How did I not know about this?

LET’S SEE
Looking at art with Peter Schjeldahl.

Two things I like so much- together, at last!! Slide shows and Peter Schjeldahl (New Yorker art critic). Click here for a buffet of tasty little bits of thought and visual pleasure.

Pretty Patterns That Camouflage a Poison

"...colorful Mexican ceramics were a significant source of lead contamination. He wondered if the same held true with the pottery in Philadelphia’s Chinatown.The answer, he and a group of researchers has found, is yes." click here to read the NYTimes article and be careful out there.