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Biography: Marcos Chin graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, in Toronto, Canada. Since then, his work has appeared on book covers, advertisements, fashion catalogues, magazines, and CD covers. He has received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, and has had his work published in numerous award annuals such as Communication Arts and American Illustration. ...

One of the most exciting shows that I have seen in a long time is Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937. It is at the Modern Museum of Art until Monday, January 12th. The exhibition investigates Miró's claim that he wanted to “assassinate” painting. However, 'assassinate' he did not; rather he laid the ground work for Modernism. After seeing this show, ...

At first glance, only that could explain how two very different museums came under fire. One month everyone is celebrating auction prices or grumbling about museum expansions-or was it the other way around? New Yorkers get to make fun of the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus circle, while still learning to cope with the clumsy boxes and back stairs ...

Public Commissions One lucrative way to make money as an artist is to win public commissions. Artists are commissioned for public art usually in connection with a new building or construction project. Most states have a law that mandates 1% of the total construction cost for a public building go to art for the building. Usually, state and city art groups ...

Ahhh… grades are in, the paperwork is done, I’ve just written my last letter of recommendation for the year… and so winter break is about to officially begin for me. Of course, winter break = lots of work, primarily finishing up stuff for the January show and (hopefully, finally) doing a stop-motion animation (this time I have it all scripted out!!) ...

Another Bookmark, a flash based shared bookmark site by web creators for inspiration and research, had nominated the best 14 sites that are outstanding and unforgettable to compete to become the Bookmark Of The Year 2008. You can go to the site and vote for your favorite site to claim the title. There are quite a few sites that are really ...

A Welcome Change to the White House Interiors President-Elect Barack Obama promises to bring change to America but will Michelle Obama bring change to the White House interiors? The responsibility of decorating and maintaining the historic 132 room White House has always fallen under the domain of the First Lady and is filled with potential pitfalls that are easily attacked by ...

Jayhan.com was the honored as one of the most beautiful websites of 2008 by "CrazyLeaf Design":http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/most-beautiful-websites-of-2008/. Jayhan relates how he stumbled onto this information: "Actually I found this article through delicious popular page, then I surf the site just to see which sites were in the lists, most of them are really nice and I visited some of the nominated sites ...

Can you say animals? I've never seen so many animals and I was not at the Bronx Zoo. I was in Chelsea. Sometimes when you walk through the Chelsea galleries there emerges themes that you have to wonder if the dealers all meet in a small room somewhere and say, okay December is animals, mirrors, and Baroque. That is what this ...

It has been said those who can’t “do”, teach.  I do not agree with this statement. There are artists who are great teachers, and those who are not.  Teaching is a gift, like artistic talent, that can be improved and learned, but some people are natural teachers.  In this article we will explore how teaching can be a great way to ...

Would you sell your work for a Volkswagen Bus? Find out how one artist chose to do so rather than make no sale at all. Selling your work out of your own studio is a common and often successful practice for many artists. What are the best practices for doing so? If you do not have a gallery affiliation or if ...

Orphan Works advocates defend their proposals by saying they're necessary to put users in touch with copyright owners. They say this isn't happening now because of a market failure in commercial markets. Speaking at a Congressional Seminar March 31, 2006, Copyright Office attorney Jule Sigall explained why they believed artists needed Congress to "push" them to register their work with privately ...

Art Positions - the weird name given to the cluster of shipping containers turned into temporary art galleries during Art Basel Miami Beach - is usually one of my favorite things about the fair. Incorporating an experimental lounge area/environment created by an artist, surrounded by galleries most of which I’ve never heard of, and with a DJ and film projections ...

Dear Friends, On Saturday, December 13th, I invite you to LOOK UP! If you find yourself near Broadway and Canal Street, look up and see the water tower at 395 Broadway (at Walker St.) transformed from a normal part of the New York City skyline into a giant crocheted pencil. It is all part of the promotion for a prestigious design ...

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My good friend from Paris, Maude Michali of Michali Fine Art, is presenting an exciting exhibition of large-scale color photographs from the mid-career artist Kimiko Yoshida as a permanent event at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, which will remain installed at the gallery through December 28, 2008. Kimiko Yoshida, a Japanese photographer with impressive auction records, created a series of ...

You have heard of the Orphan Works Bill that has passed in the House of Representatives, but what is going on now with the bill during this Lame Duck Session of Congress? This is an inititive that takes away artists (defined broadly) automatic rights to the work that they create. Under this bill individuals would have to register every work in ...

The Copyright Office received about 215 relevant letters to their Orphan Works Study. From this they deduced a claim of widespread market failure in commercial markets and concluded that government should "incentivize" creators to register their work with for-profit registries as a condition of protecting their copyrights. Officially, this goal is expressed benignly on page 106 of the Copyright Office's Report ...

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part III 215 Letters Nearly 300 million people live in the US. How many of them does it take to make an “orphan works problem”? Apparently 215 (give or take a few). That’s the only conclusion we can draw from the Report on Orphan Works released by the Copyright Office in 2006. In their testimony ...

You might wonder, "What’s the connection between Sasaki Nozomi (佐々木希) and Dekotora?" Well, the connection is that she appears in these photos with dekotora. Pretty straight forward right :P ? Well recently I found these interesting photos of a popular Japanese model Sasaki Nozomi posing in front of a painted Japanese decoration truck, so I decided to post it up and ...