Archive for the ‘Motherlode’ Category
The Sopranos and Design Lessons
Monday, June 11th, 2007
This is a great article by Michael Bierut over at Design Observer:
Everything I Know About Design I Learned from The Sopranos.
Great analogy of the intersection between popular culture and design.
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Post-War Art Records Broken
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Francis Bacon starts the break, his Portrait Study from Innocent X, shown at left, fetched $52.6m (£26.5m) at Sotheby’s in New York – almost double the previous high for a Bacon work.
The version I prefer is the Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953).
Click the thumbnail above to view a larger version. He did quite a few as I recall. Compare the two, you tell me.
Then a Mark Rothko beats the record again in the same night and grabs it for a price of $72.8m (£36.7m) for his 1950 work White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose).
I really can’t fathom why, Bacon in my mind is so far superior an artist. Perhaps because it was sold by philanthropist David Rockefeller, who bought it for less than $10,000 on the advice of Dorothy Miller, the first chief curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in 1960, and kept it in his office since.
The Bacon also surfaced after 30yrs in a private collection, perhaps a reason the valuation was so high for a Bacon.
The most expensive painting ever sold on record is a 1948 work by Jackson Pollock when it changed hands for about $140m (£73m) in a private sale.
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The Art of War
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
“Convoy of British merchant ships” by Blake, Post-1941.
There’s a great exhibition of war images over at the National Archives of the UK,
(why does it feel odd to type ‘the UK’, can one still call it that!)
The Art of War.
Via Drawn
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The Web Design Survey, 2007
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
I took the survey, the results ought to be interesting.
If you do this you might wish to give it a shot.
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The SXSW 2007 podcasts
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
There’s some great listening over on this podcast page, from the SXSW this year. Not being able to attend it’s great that one can still listen to the podcasts.
There’s a wealth of information in these podcasts, definitely worth a visit and a listen, at least to the ones that relate to the area you may be working in.
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