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artblog: life in the 700s
Life in the 700s is about everything from early cave drawings and fertility figures to the issues and shifting boundaries art generates and experiments with today. It reports from a world dominated by grey area, few answers and endless questions. It is also about exchanging ideas and information, and having a forum in which to respond to the Arts around us, both local and global.
In 1876, Melvil Dewey invented a system of library classification which attempted to organize all of human knowledge into ten major areas, one of which encompasses the Arts: the 700s. This category begins with the Arts in general then migrates to Landscaping/Area planning (710s), Architecture (720s), Sculpture/Ceramics/Metalwork (730s), Drawing/Decorative Arts (740s), Painting (750s), Graphic Arts (760s), Photography/Computer Art (770s), Music (780s) and wraps with Sports/Games/Entertainment (790s).
Recent Posts
Open call for BEST NEW ART
The Fall Solo Show is an international open call for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums: sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more!
Judges: Priska Juschka/Founder of Priska C. Juschka Art and CK Swett of Christie's. All submissions must be recieved by October 22, 2009 at 11:59 PM/EST.
Aaron Douglas Art Fair opens today at 11 AM!
Stopped in traffic on my way to work this morning, I watched a man wrestling an large, wheeled grill over a curb. Several people setting up tents ran over and helped get the BBQ behemoth onto the grass and headed in the direction of the Fourth...
Art that looks back at you: Golan Levin at TED 2009
What a great way to begin the week: inspired and laughing.
"Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools—robotics, new software, cognitive research—to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies...
Making art from almost nothing
The following is a performance by Kseniya Simonova, a Ukrainian artist who recently won the "Ukraine's Got Talent" competition. She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret the invasion and
The Nude Wall ... not your average art competition
The Sabatini Art Gallery is located a short distance from the Library entrance, just to the right of the rotunda. Exhibits, programs and events are free, casual and open to the public.
Hours are the same as the Library, except when closed for change of exhibition.
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