ART IN THE NEWS
World's Largest Art Supply Store
Opens on the Web 4-15-99
ATLANTA Marc F. Adler, CEO announces the launch of the world's largest
on-line discount art supply store, MisterArt.com ( http://www.misterart.com).
After almost two years in development, the
elaborate e-commerce site exclusively offers arts and crafts products
over the Web with 40,000 items at savings up to
80%-off retail prices.
ArtFact
Inc. Launches New Website 04/15/99
-- ArtFact Inc., publisher
of the world's largest database of art and antiques public auction records,
announced today the launch of a completely re-designed version of their
website at www.artfact.com. Founded in 1989, ArtFact Inc. provides over
4 million independent and unedited public auction sales records to professionals
within the art, antiques and collectibles world. With over 300 participating
auction houses worldwide, the Artfact database is the largest proprietary
resource of public auction information in the world.
New
Web Site Features Rare Van Gogh 3-29-99
Praise
for Arts, but a Cold Shoulder for Artists 3-28-99
By Douglas Davis
It wasn't long ago that artists were welcomed
and embraced in the nation's capital as well as
in the mainstream news media. ..Despite consistently
growing cultural coverage, the vanguard artist is often
portrayed as an engaging roué at best, as psychotic at worst.
DeCordova
exhibit plugs into interactive computer art 3-26-99
A rant about the cons of "cyberart"
Virtual
Art, Real Conversation
Feb 99 Theglobe.com opens a new
community to art aficionados. Viewers have the
chance to speak their minds -- directly to the
artists -- about the works they see. By Reena Jana.
French
Artists Gear Up For x-99
19 Mar 99 Digital art, Net art. It's all the
same to some people. French digital artists prepare
to celebrate both genres and set the record
straight. By David Kushner.
Botticelli
on Your PalmPilot?
5 Mar 99 An Italian research team uses
the basics of PDA networking and GPS tracking to
create a virtual art docent that fits in the palm of
your hand. Maria Cristina Valsecchi reports from
Siena, Italy.
Top 10
art tools - March 2, 1999
If artist's block is stifling your inner Picasso, try
these files.
CNN Food Central
- Spuds are the stars of unique art exhibit
- February 15, 1999
MOSES LAKE, Washington (AP) -- The potato
is more than cheap basic nutrition -- it is the
inspiration behind flights of artistic fancy. At least
that's the case in eastern Washington state, where
the ubiquitous tuber transcends its underground
reputation ...
Italian
villa is gallery for designer's art treasures - January 23, 1999
Milan interior designer Gigi Scagliotti not only
inherited a vast number of family antiques and art
collections, but also the family villa on Italy's Lake
Maggiore, built 50 years ago. The garden, gazebo
and terrace are set up to take advantage of the ...
TravelGuide
- Exhibit pairs early U.S., Australian artists - Jan. 27, 1999
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like Americans,
Australian painters ventured out from their east
coast nearly 200 years ago into a little known
continent. Now Washington's oldest art museum has
helped put together the first major show in the
United ...
Lint-mania:
Canadian artist spinning from attention
FEATURE-Indian
women's embroideries drip with blood
FEATURE-Stained
glass windows now seen as art worth having
Portrait
of a Hezbollah artist: Wielding paintbrush as weapon
Settlement
reached over Pissarro painting
ABCNEWS.com
: Pop Artist Makes It Big in Death
It's a cliche that became a self-fulfilling prophecy:
Ray Johnson was an artist who avoided recognition in life,
but has it in death.
Death
of ``xiang sheng'' master marks end of era
Court:
NYC museum must turn art over to grand jury
Art
criticism Six-year-old trashes exhibit
Disputed
art to stay in New York during probe
Chicago
Art Institute sets Van Gogh-Gauguin show
ABCNEWS.com
: Putting Michaelangelo's Work in 3-D
Paving
Through Petroglyphs
Prehistoric Petroglyphs “There is a monster out there
larger than Godzilla, and we are powerless against it.” —
Steve Juanico, vice chairman, All-Indian Pueblo Council
Web Links Petroglyph National ..
Artistic
Ability Flourishes Before Dementia 12 98
By Claudine Chamberlain ABCNEWS.com
Talents Emerge, Dementia Takes Over An Artful
Madness “The mechanism for the enhanced artistic skills …
remains a mystery. FTD is an unexpected window
into the artistic process.” — ...
Art
and e-commerce: Sotheby's signs up dealers Feb 99
Search engine
seeks images, logos Feb 99
Millionaire.com
buys auction gallery Feb 99
New
.. Cyber Art Web Channel
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