All Things Art & Photography
Excellent overview at Spread Effect on Matt Cutts talk. If you have a web site and don’t know who Matt Cutts is, or what the heck SEO, or Link Building is, you better pay attention as when he speaks from his office at Google the entire web stops, looks and listens.
Michelle Frankfurter series Destino was a winner of the Arron Siskind Grant and portrays the “perilous journey of undocumented Central American migrants along the network of freight trains lurching inexorably across Mexico, towards the hope of finding work in the United States.”
One of the most prized awards in photography. Usually goes to a young photographer and always a big deal…
Recipients:
Michelle Frankfurter, Takoma Park, MD
Wayne Lawrence, Brooklyn, NY
Joshua Lutz, Katonah, NY
Justin Maxon, Eureka, CA
Jenny Riffle, Seattle, WA
Sasha Rudensky, New Haven, CT
Judges:
Natalie Matutschovsky, Senior Photo Editor, TIME
Andrew Moore, internationally-recognized fine art photographer and instructor
Tim Wride, William & Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography, Norton Museum of Art
In the vast Kalahari Dillon Marsh found some epic bird nests in a series he calls: Assimilation
In the vast barren landscapes of the southern Kalahari, Sociable Weaver Birds assume ownership of the telephone poles that cut across their habitat.Their burgeoning nests are at once inertly statuesque and teeming with life. The twigs and grass collected to build these nests combine to give strangely recognizable personalities to the otherwise inanimate poles.
via the web site
NPR reporter and National Deputy Editor Uri Beriner wades in ankle deep (online) to invest in painting and give us a report about his purchase. The good news is he found something he liked. The bad news is if he was actually going to buy something for an “investment” he should of gone through a local gallery and worked with a pro to find a work of art that might actually be a good investment (or at least by an artist collected by major collectors or museums – preferably both). The perils of online art purchases and not working with a pro…
For more info on how to collect art see my other post
I check in with Price one last time after making my online purchase. Not a bad choice, she says, especially because it’s painted in the style of the impressionists; they’re always popular. But she offers a caveat: “It’s unlikely you’d be able to turn around and sell it tomorrow. This is an emerging artist. This is an artist who is not brand name. That again goes to perhaps there being some difficulty in reselling the work.”
Via NPR
