Untitled DocumentScreen printing first appeared in a recognizable form in China during the
Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD). Japan and other Asian countries adopted this method
of printing and advanced the craft using it in ...READ»
The art world's been making headlines recently, with record auction prices for both modern and contemporary art set at Sotheby’s and Christies’ last month. But they, evidently, were simply the appetizer course to the Grand Buffet ...READ»
In the future, everyone will be a retailer for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol never said that. But he did say this: "The people who have the best fame are those who have their names on stores. The people with very big stores named after them ...READ»
I've always been fascinated by the leap from consumer product to cultural icon -- when and how this happens and, of course, when you notice it. Maybe it's the first time you hear someone use Tivo as a verb. Or the first time you hear ...READ»
In 1968 Andy Warhol famously said, "In the future,
everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." And every day it seems like
he’s a little bit more on target.
We would more likely say that everyone is given the stage
and ...READ»
Long before Andy Warhol and his soup cans or Damien Hirst and his one-man auction show, art and commerce
were intimate bedfellows. This Getty show reminds us just how long,
with 23 drawings done by Renaissance and Baroque artists ...READ»
Rainer Hosch
On his eighth birthday, Rainer Hosch received a camera from his father, a photojournalist. The gift sparked a passion that carried Hosch from his family home in Austria to his current live-in studio in New York's ...READ»
Actor and artist Dennis Hopper died of complications related to prostate cancer on Saturday. He was 74. We recently covered his debut at MOCA under new curator Jeffrey Deitch. Here is that report revisited.READ»
Staring at the big, sparkly Tom Friedman painting, "Glitterbattle," in the Gagosian booth, the woman in the red flowered house dress, yellow socks, and black sneakers, was inspired. So was her companion, dressed in khaki shorts, an ...READ»
Matt Mason, author of "The Pirates' Dilemma," spoke at Pop!Tech this morning about what we can learn from pirates. These seven tips may save your company.READ»
We don't have to remind you of chapters 1 through 15 of the Saga of Shepard Fairey, in which the artist saw a photo, made a poster, got famous, got sued by the AP for seeing that photo, and subsequently suffered scathing criticism ...READ»
The boys on stage at OgilvyOne’s big digital convergence at Jazz at Lincoln Center yesterday looked suspiciously like they had wandered in from Internet World circa 1999…earnest young West Coast geeks, with big ideas and even ...READ»
In the spirit of full disclosure, I confess that I drank my last cup of coffee 35 years ago. So I shouldn’t care about the re-branding of a legacy Seattle coffee merchant. However, the new logo introduced last week by ...READ»
A European journalist at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) this morning asked filmmaker Tim Burton, "What was it like growing up in Burbank, California?" "Have you ever seen Dante's 'Inferno?'" he shot back.Actually, he said, ...READ»
Turns out that we as consumers can be easily manipulated -- and it's probably happening far more often that we'd like to imagine. A couple of studies released this year draw attention to this. The first demonstrates that consumers ...READ»
At the heart of the Web are two important lessons about your career: You are your most important product, and everything about you gets more valuable when you use technology to leverage it.READ»
Movies are so compelling. There’s a reason for that. They’re distilled stories we can identify with and feel something about - the hero, the villain, even the lover. It’s all so simple in a movie. They tell us something about ...READ»
What is there left to say about the King that has not been said, other
than the music he left behind is as immortal as anything that be dared
be called immortal. "My Way" is an obvious song for the independent of
mind but a ...READ»
