I don’t really like art. I know this is probably blasphemy to many people, particularly all of the wannabe Picassos in the ad industry. But, for me, art is just kind of okay.
Yeah, I appreciate the talent involved. And I can look at a painting or sculpture and enjoy what I see. But when people say they ‘love’ art, I just don’t get it.
The thought of even 1 hour at a gallery or museum and I’m like a 10 year old being dragged to the mall with his Mom while …

They are not from Brooklyn or even brothers… but they have created a powerful independent shop, The Brooklyn Brothers. They also have a gallery for art, http://www.thebrooklynbrothersgallery.com/ , which I thought was a really fresh idea that you might want to check it out.
- Kohl Norville

Artists, Scientist, Researchers, Inventors, Organizations, festivals, Exhibitions, conceptual
and technical reading sources.
The field of art and technology, entertainment engineering, media arts and dance and
technology is immensely connected via the web, through fantastic print and web
publications as well as 100’s of museums and organizations who support media artists and
inventors by providing show space, technical support and monetary support.
One of the best ways to get to know the field of digital art, theory, interactive sculpture,
installation is to explore the web sites of those working at the intersection of the arts and
technology.
The names and …

It’s always nice to see someone from our business reaching out beyond the regular client assignments with their creativity. Even when they’re creativity is actuall about our business. This illustrative tale of the perils in the creative process comes to us from Scott Campbell (http://scott-c.blogspot.com).
-Glen Day

This is a cool site I’ve been following recently. Use it for inspiration. Use it for entertainment. Use it to kill time during a boring meeting.
http://www.culturenow.com
- TJ Bennett

When I begun in advertising, I had the luck to team with a veteran Art Director.
Walter was in his 60’s back then, I was in my early 20’s.
The man had a vision like I never saw again, probably because it is becoming more and more difficult to find art directors older than 50’s in the agencies nowadays – which is terrible, I think.
Walter knew so much that sometimes, he went mad with the guys who only learned from the digital school.
“These photographers think that they don’t need to set a …

Used to be, all you needed was a pen and a rough idea of how to draw a penis going into someone’s mouth to deface a transit ad.  Now guy’s are getting all Bansky on their asses.
- Chris Soskin

pretty cool site i’ve been casing for the last few weeks.
check it out.
(Click the pic to go to the site)

Check this art blog out… ( http://junleenyc.blogspot.com/ ) It gets updated daily with new exhibitions, studio visits, openings (in NYC) and artists that he finds innovative and interesting (worldwide).
I’m freelancing over at ogilvy, its by fella that works here, they send it out weekly.
- Kohl Norville

My good friend Jessica Wittebort (at http://www.headshift.com) and artist Antony Gormley put together this fantastic piece…
Here is the site (http://www.oneandother.co.uk/) and what Antony had had to say…
So 100 days of continuous occupation of a statue’s plinth by 2400 real people has ended. It has changed my life and that of many others. No fewer than 2,400 people from as far afield as the Shetland Islands and Penzance have occupied the plinth for sixty minutes each, picked at random from nearly 35,000 who applied.
Who can be represented in art? How can …