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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
Art for everyone: Design and the Elastic Mind
Biojewelry made from donated bone cells. Body modification for love. Free-hand sketches drawn in the air, captured by video and instantly materialized. Fabric built 3-dimensionally, layer by layer on a computer. Victimless leather. Health labs on a card in your pocket. Housing and city planning based on six-sided nanoparticle growth patterns. Furniture design that mimics the human body's ability to generate bone to support different areas of pressure. Mapping neighborhoods that yeild higher levels of social injustice and incarceration. Internet dating site data made into individual portraits that can be perfected and changed by the viewer.
Prepare to be amazed!
New Art Exhibit: Hybrid Visions
What do Nicolas Lampert, Dr. Dre, the Beastie Boys, Pablo Picasso, mules, Dekalb corn, the Prius, George Braque, Girl Talk and the Chicago Police Department have in common? Find out in the Sabatini Gallery when Hybrid Visions opens June 6. Can't be here? View our online exhibit of Hybrid Visions.
Antiques Roadshow coming to Wichita KS
PBS's Antiques Roadshow will be in Wichita KS on July 12, 2008.
Maybe you're the lucky owner of a million-dollar Civil War relic or outstanding example of furniture. Or maybe your flea market find is a fake. The April 20 deadline for online ticket applications has passed, however a random selection for free tickets will be conducted in early May. Emails notifying applicants if they were chosen go out beginning May 9. So, if you applied, watch your inbox. If you missed it, watch the show. You'll get a good sense what sorts of things Kansans collect and inherit.
birds, bullhorns and brian collier
Teach the Starlings in Kansas City is the latest incarnation of environmental artist Brian Collier's multi-faceted, ongoing project that begins with the story of one of the most spectacular ecological disruptions ever perpetrated by an individual: the introduction of the European starling to North America.
New Art Exhibit: Out of Sight/Out of Mind
April 4 — May 16, 2008
Main Gallery
Sabatini Gallery
View the exhibit online:
Out of Sight/Out of Mind
"This exhibit belongs on every street corner!" Viewers weigh in on Out of Sight/Out of Mind which runs through May 16 in the Sabatini Gallery. Curated by Gallery Director, Sherry Best.
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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