Do you suffer for your art? Hmm that’s a good question. I find often when I am suffering already or feeling a lot of complex emotions about a particular subject, the process of making art can help to clarify a situation or circumstance. So no not really, art is a cathartic process for me. What [...]
Date: June 5-6, 2012 Tuition: $600 Born in San Francisco, David Alan Harvey was raised in Virginia. He discovered photography at the age of 11. Harvey purchased a used Leica with savings from his newspaper route and began photographing his family and neighborhood in 1956. When he was 20 he lived with and documented the lives of a black [...]
Josh Lilley is delighted to announce the opening tomorrow night of The Garments of the Dominators - the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Vicky Wright. The Garments of the Dominators 1st June – 6th July 2012 Wright’s new work develops her fascination with painting structures, supports, and how a work of art is contained or framed within existing historical [...]
Some artists have the magic. They can hold an audience. That’s What I like to do, to offer a platform for artists and galleries. David Gryn is running Art World Business & Promotion: 3 Day Summer School for Artupdate Learning at Fashion and Textile Museum in London. We offer student discount for the course, please [...]
What’s your background? How did you first get into illustration? I studied graphic-design in Pforzheim, Germany. I Used to work as a graphic designer for about two years and got a scholarship to do a MFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York (Illustration as a Visual Essay Programme). Since I’ve [...]
Over the two-day workshop, Francesco Franchi, a master of information design and the art director of IL, will give insight into how graphic editors filter information, establish relationships, discern patterns, and develop inspiring and stimulating solutions to contextualize information that simultaneously inspires, informs, entertains and even encourages critical thought. Date: July 2 – 3, 2012 Location: Gestalten [...]
What would you do for two days in NYC? Chris Rock: Central Park is beautiful, especially if you have kids. I like to rent a bike and cycle around the city. Museum-wise, I love MoMA. I saw the Cindy Sherman exhibit there most recently, and it blew me away. I love the city and it [...]
Do you suffer for your art? I suppose so yes. I am super critical of my work, and sometimes unfair to myself. Have you always been creative? I have always been creative, and always done illustration, before I realised what it was. What’s the highlight of your career so far? The highlight of my career [...]
Timing is always important in art but it is nothing less than crucial when your project is tied to an event so rare that it will happen next month – and then not again for 105 years. It is inspired by a rare astronomical event, Venus’s transit of the sun, when that planet passes directly [...]
Maurice is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, which was first published in 1963. On depression and therapy “I couldn’t hold myself together till I left the nest and I got uptown. And everyone said, ‘Oh, you’re so talented and you’re going to get a book and you’re’ — and, of course, [...]
