One-tank Trip: Indianapolis Museum of Art renovations (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Stepping into the new Efroymson Entrance Pavilion of the renovated and expanded Indianapolis Museum of Art, you cannot help but see the light.

Lead Based Materials Used in Art Class (WFSB 3)
MILFORD — New details on the discovery that students in Milford were using lead-based glazes in art class. State officials are now looking at art supplies in schools statewide and on Tuesday they will gather at the Milford health department to discuss a possible plan to deal with lead problems.

Pianos are art form unto themselves (The Herald-Tribune)
Art inspires art, it seems. Some fascinating examples of the way music has inspired the designers and makers of the instruments upon which the music is performed can be seen in an impressive display now at Pritchard's Pianos and Organs on Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota.

Amazing origami!

Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for over thirty years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with over 400 designs catalogued and diagrammed. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created. His work combines aspects of the Western school of mathematical origami design with the Eastern emphasis upon line and form to yield models that are at once distinctive, elegant, and challenging to fold. They have been shown in exhibitions in Paris, New York, Boston, San Diego, and Tokyo, among others.

Ingenious and nice…

As a sculptor of constructive geometric forms, my work deals with patterns and relationships derived from classical ideals of balance and symmetry. Mathematical yet organic, these abstract forms invite the viewer to partake of the geometric aesthetic. I use a variety of media, including paper, wood, plastic, metal, and assemblages of common household objects.

These balls are very interesting.

A thousand year old craft from Japan, Temari is traditionally given as a gift. From humble beginnings as simple toy balls for children’s play, Temari create a magnetic effect on viewers today. As a spectacular decorating focal point, the puzzle of the design is mesmerizing. The concept is elegantly simple, the end result is simply elegant!

Interesting…

This site features Native American rock art as works of art. For scholarly analysis of these images and their archaeological context please refer to the works of Polly Schaafsma, Sally J. Cole, and others.

'Apprentice'Punches a New Timecard
The net effect of a feud between Donald Trump and Martha Stewart has been to make viewers aware that the original"Apprentice"is back.
BILL CARTER

Opera Review|'Our Town': Voices Raised in Song at Grover's Corners
Ned Rorem has written an intimate chamber opera to match the spareness of Thornton Wilder's play.
ANNE MIDGETTE

Spirits, Gothic Fantasies and Sex, Please, We're British
"Gothic Nightmares,"an exhibit at Tate Britain, is not a sex show, even though a veil does isolate some saucy images.
ALAN RIDING

Animals in the art of Guy Coheleach are very intersting.

This is amazing sand sculpturing from real specialists.

Paintings that open a window into a realm unlike this one
Aaron Petersen's first solo show at Braunstein/Quay introduces a new local voice of exceptional verve and confidence. Petersen reminds us of one reason why painting as an art survives, despite an ostensibly deepening obsolescence: it gratifies our…
Kenneth Baker

To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows.
Second of two parts on Christopher Alexander and a discussion of his four-volume book "The Nature of Order." A 300-year-old willow tree stands behind the old farmhouse in which Christopher Alexander has lived for several years at the end of a road in…
Kenneth Baker

REVIEW / Round 2 of 'Traditions' show sheds more light on individualism of 18th century Japanese painters
The Asian Art Museum has just opened the second rotation in its two-part exhibition "Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of 18th Century Japan." In quality and variety, Part 2 exceeds even the high expectations the first installment stirred….
Kenneth Baker

Very very nice!

Dutch painter Herman Smorenburg was born in Alkmaar on the seventh of June 1958. At an early age Herman, who grew up with two brothers and one sister, was fascinated by the possibility of expressing his imagination by drawing and painting. When he reached the age of fifteen, a major development took place in his inner life which drove him to tread a path which he has followed until today: the great search into the mysteries of consciousness and the exploration of its hidden dimensions. Although Herman had already developed a great sensitivity to the beauty and the immensity of nature, and although some aesthetic experiences with nature had already settled in the chambers of his subconscious mind, the discovery and use of psychedelic drugs expanded his consciousness and intensified his experiences. Life, with all its hidden dimensions and possibilities, started to reveal itself to Herman as an unimaginable adventure, in which he had just made his first steps.

At this stage, visual art that examines the deeper experience of reality by way of images and symbols, began to have a tremendous impact on the young artist’s mind. The confrontation with Salvador Dali’s surrealistic art and the imaginative worlds of the famous Dutch artists Carel Willink and Johfra left imprints in Herman’s young and susceptible mind, which, in the course of time ripened and developed into his own magical dream worlds. These imprints, furthermore, laid the foundations for his study of classical painting techniques.