This photo makes me want to take off my shoes, run across the floor, and sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. The Art Institute’s new modern wing is nice. They should hold annual sock-sliding competitions. Maybe I’ll start an unofficial one with a couple people. When the guards ask us what we are doing, I’ll reply, “It’s the Annual Sock …
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I’d like there to be a website that collects images of all the artwork being shown in Chicago art museums and galleries. Here’s the next best thing. A google image search for each of the gallery districts in Chicago. I broke them up into areas, because Google limits how long your search string can be. …
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Artontrack and Sandy Caribou blogged about this hilarious letter mailed to the Art Institute of Chicago. Arthur needs to check out my Art Institute Collection, “Stolen Artworks“
Make your own Lichtenstein using the DotBot generator at roy.artic.edu. If you post your photo on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Facebook timeline, they will put your photo into their DotBot Self-Portraits album. Most people just shoot themselves making a funny face. One person made a
In a WBEZ interview about how techno music is like classical music, Mason Bates, composer-in-residence for both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, gives an example of how people are afraid of the symphony. At minute 11:48 in the inteview he says, “The primary problem is intimidation. I know so many people, …
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The Museum of Contemporary Art’s twitter account pointed me in the direction of a “Time Out Chicago” article about their new identity, “We are here at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” The commenting is closed on the article, so I’m posting my response below. I’m looking forward to the artist working spaces in the 12×12 …
The Art institute of Chicago has this thing on their website where you can browse all their artwork. You can even make collections of their artworks to show to other people! Last week a chicago twitter account @badatsports asked, “Who else do we need holograms of?” So I made a collection of artworks at the …
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Current museum projects I’ve got several art projects that take place in art museums. Last summer I got reciprocal art museum pass from the Walker Art Center and it allows me to go into over 400 art museums nationwide. With this freedom, I’ve been attending art museums more. Ideas have been sprouting for how I …
The Art Institute of Chicago’s official twitter account calls my art “wild card”! View all 15 “wild card” photos on the Spudart Facebook Page.
Art. Baseball cards. Art as collectible. Baseball cards as collectible.Art signed. Baseball cards autographed.Art as aesthetic object. Baseball card as aesthetic object.The mark of the artist. The mark of a baseball player.Paintings are indexed in catalogs. Baseball cards are indexed in catalogs. Some baseball player autographs have wonderful aesthetic qualities. I went on eBay and …
The aesthetic forms of the signature are very intriguing. When I paypal’ed $1.74 to the seller, I included the following note: Thanks for selling this card. It has to be one of the coolest signatures ever. It’s like a work of art. Pico’s signature is much like a Picasso cubist painting with its deep curves …
