Balboa Park Commons

Nearly three years in development, the online Balboa Park Commons is open to the public.

The web-based resource developed by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative with funding from the Legler Benbough Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services includes more than 20,000 “rare and significant” materials from seven Balboa Park institutions.

The website has a video to explain how to use the commons

http://balboaparkcommons.org/

According to an article in the Union Tribune the website should be particularly useful for educators, scholars and researchers (representatives from each group were involved in the development of the website). It allows registered users to download images for classroom or other educational, noncommercial use. But the site should also appeal to just about anyone who is curious.

The institutions currently included on the site are:

Mingei International Museum

the Museum of Photographic Arts

the Timken, the San Diego Museum of Art

Air & Space Museum

Museum of Man and the

Natural History Museum. 

Cake Sculptor and Painter, Scott Hove

Great video on artist Scott Hove. Hi-Fructose first featured his work in Hi-Fructose Vol.11, which has been reprinted in the third collected edition.

http://vimeo.com/54177455

Scott Hove

vimeo.com

An artist profile featuring Cake Sculptor and Painter, Scott Hove.

 Music: Toner Low - II 

Cinematography & Editing: Taylor Morgan 

 www.mshove.com www.spoke-art.com

JR's "Inside Out" Takes Over Times Square

by Kristen Boatright | Watch Video

CARMON COLANGELO : GLOBAL DIPTYCHS

 

Published on Apr 18, 2013

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Sergey Drobyshevsky

Bruno David Gallery presents an exhibition by Carmon Colangelo titled "Glocal Diptychs". Carmon Colangelo's new work muses about cultural narratives, urban life, human ecologies, globalism, social networking, transcendence, and recording everyday ideas. Glocal Diptychs is a series of nine mixed media prints produced in 2012 at Pele Prints in St. Louis. Each of the works is made from a shared matrix and printed on two sheets of paper using monotype, intaglio, relief process as well as hand-coloring. These prints expand on Colangelo's interest in architectonic forms and the poetics of space with an eye to our changing notions about place and shifts between geographic location and local identity while contemplating a globalized future.

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson or project inquiries visit his website : www.thuvanarts.com

PABLO PICASSO "In the key of Picasso" - Music by Carlos Vamos

I collected all the existing Pablo Picasso film footage I could find and edited all together driven by my Tapping Guitar music, Enjoy!! the guitar parts painting/art piece is made by me...guitarnica

History of the Getty Villa

This 12 minute film reveals J. Paul Getty's vision for the Villa and the Museum's collection as well as the ancient sources that influenced the site's design.



"J. Paul Getty died in 1976, without ever seeing the Villa."

"Everyone talks about how much money I make. I wonder what sort of accomplishment it is to make a lot of money."
--J. Paul Getty, 1958.

The Art of the Potter - Ceramics.. (1/4)

Published on Jan 15, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... Ceramics - A Fragile History. Three-part series looking at the history of pottery in Britain.(2012)

 Episode 3:
 The Art of the Potter. 1/4
 The Art of the Potter. 2/4
The Art of the Potter. 3/4
The Art of the Potter. 4/4.

Rivers and Tides -Full- Andy Goldsworthy Documentary 2003

Published on Jan 4, 2013 "Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature." Phenomenal landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy has given me so much inspiration over the years. Apologies for the vid quality, my original dvd went missing and I had to go with an outdated rip.

RUTH WEISBERG : NOW AND THEN

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Daedelus. This exhibition presents paintings and works on paper by one of Los Angeles' most celebrated figurative artists. "Ruth Weisberg: Now & Then" presents works from more than three decades, and includes Weisberg's most recent paintings and drawings, revealing a unique vision through which the viewer sees the convergence of art history, personal memory, and cultural experience. Professor Ruth Weisberg teaches drawing and printmaking at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

Richard Long @ M-Shed Bristol. April 2011.

Published on Sep 12, 2012 Rare video footage and photographs of artist Richard Long making River Avon Mud Circle at M-Shed Bristol. www.spaceinbetween.net

Richard Jackson - Painting With Two Balls - The Artist's Studio - MOCAtv

Published on Mar 5, 2013 Filmed on location February 8, 2013, this is the first video shot that captures, so comprehensively, the activation process.. 'Painting with Two Balls' is part of the exhibition 'Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain' at the Orange County Museum of Art. ----- Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting A Pain February 17th - May 5th 2013 Orange County Museum of Art Produced for MOCAtv Produced, Shot and Directed by: Bryan Olinger Additional Photography: Jose Luis Rios Music and Editing: Bryan Olinger PA: Dustin Koester Produced in association with cutawaycreative.com Special Thanks Richard Jackson Dennis Szakacs Kirsten Schmidt Michael Barnett Freestyle Filmworks

GARY LANG : BRAVE GESTURES

Published on Apr 2, 2013 Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Scott Hiltzik. The Lancaster Museum of Art and History presents Gary Lang: Whim Wham an intimate selection of Lang's acclaimed circle paintings accompanied by his never before seen word paintings. The two bodies of work may at first appear unrelated, yet they are inextricably linked by a union of opposites and similarities―both through the process in which they are created and in Lang's quest for reconciling the space between beauty and pain in contemporary times. read more

Auckland Art Gallery - Restoring Tissot

Published on Apr 3, 2012 

  In 1998 the painting 'Still on Top' by James Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902) was stolen at gunpoint from the Auckland Art Gallery. This documentary written by Tessa Duder and voiced by Paul Gittens tells the story of the painting's theft, its retrieval and the painstaking restoration work carried out by the Gallery's conservators.

 © Auckland Art Gallery 2001 Published by Learning Media View more James Tissot artwork in breathtaking detail via the Google Art Project

Leslie Sacks Contemporary Alex Weinstein: Swell Models

Alex Weinstein: Swell Models from Leslie Sacks Contemporary on Vimeo.
"Leslie Sacks Contemporary is pleased to present an interview with Alex Weinstein in a short film by Eric Minh Swenson. Alex Weinstein’s seascape paintings push identifiable imagery to the absolute edge of recognition, blurring the line between representation and abstraction. His singular panels appear as abstract color field paintings; when combined as a diptych, however, ocean imagery takes shape, as the two panels ground one another in realism. Weinstein’s sculptural work looks sliced from the ocean's surface, full of texture, drama and weight. Weinstein uses automotive paint and fiberglass to create a high gloss finish, which reflects light from every angle, revealing a depth and spectrum of color in each panel. True to the ephemeral nature of the ocean itself, the surface appears to shift constantly and is visually elusive. Alex Weinstein’s work is held in significant private and corporate collections and is in the permanent collection of the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California."

An Easy Way to Transfer Imagery to Pottery

ceramic arts daily 
information and inspiration from inside the artist's studio 
 
A few years back, Doug Gray was interested in incorporating his digital photography into his clay work. He tried decals, but it wasn’t the look he was after – he wanted the photos to help him create the images, but he didn’t want the images to look exactly like photographs. One day he had a happy accident. He discovered that an ink jet print out, will easily transfer onto soft clay. From there he carves in the line work and adds color with underglazes. Today, he explains this simple and kid-friendly process. – Jennifer Harnetty, editor. Read more about the process here