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In the spirt of togetherness the visual resources library has joined the main library in their blogging efforts. All of our imagey goodness will now be found at http://massartlibrary.wordpress.com/ See you there!
Affiche pour l'Exposition du "Centenaire de la Lithographie". by D'Alesi, F. Hugo from the NYPL Digital Gallery
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Here is a great short making its way across the internet about stop motion animation by Chloe Fleury. I now know that I can thank Emile Cohl when I am blissfully watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the 800th time this holiday season.
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I have be plagued with guilt for not posting recently, and had been preparing the summer-went-so-fast-so-many-things-to-do-where-is-my-mind excuses, when this project from Corey Achangel came to my attention.
Archangel has compiled enough apologies from slacking bloggers across the internet to get me off the hook. I’ll be back soon.
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Frog Pond on the Common from the BPL Flickr Feed
Kids, if you are in town, I don’t have to tell you its HOT! Moving at all is hard unless motivated by a promise of central air. Well you are in luck, many of our fine cultural institutions here in Beantown want to help the cause.
The ICA is one of our favorite spots to cool off, it boasts the double bonus of being waterfront AND having a brand spanking new HVAC system. This summer the work of tatoo artist Dr. Larka is on display. Additionally they have many great programs running all summer one worth checking out is CO LAB: Process + Performance with Jenny Holzer and Miguel Gutierrez on July 28. Dancing and text based art, can it get any better?
Instead of catching a mindless summer blockbuster this week get serious with a foreign film. The Boston French Film festival is at the MFA July 8 through the 25.
If you are in a more outdoorsy spirit get out on the water and take the ferry to one of the Boston Harbor Islands. In addition to the many performances, workshops, and hot-dog eating contests happening on the islands all summer, on July 31 and August 1 you ucan check out the very cool Art Encampment projects.
For five days, eight artist groups will take temporary ownership of eight plots of land on Bumpkin Island. As “homesteaders,” they will build some kind of home on the land, live on the land for five days, and “improve” the land via a site-specific, temporary performance or installation. -Berwick Research Institute
Think cold thoughts!
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
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Here is an animation about the Visual Resources department created by our own fabulous Kate Howley!
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Also known as Evacuation day to the MassArt community. The state keeps trying to take this holiday away from us lucky folk who work or go to school at a state or city school here in Boston, so enjoy it while you can! Here’s is a little video for you to enjoy on your day off eat so soda bread, wear something green, ERIN GO BRAGH!
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German Playing Card designed by Ludwig Burger ca. 1885
My personal browsing produced a really neat new find today! The World of Playing Cards is an amazing archive of images and information of playing cards from the hand drawn cards from the Native Americans to ornate cards designed for royalty (above) and cards designed by abstract artists (below). When looking a the history of such a specific, ordinary item it clearly illustrates the greater history of art, illustration, and printing. So neat.
SIMULTANÉ PLAYING CARDS by Sonia Delaunay, 1964
The World of Playing Cards – Via Design*Sponge
