6 posts tagged with Art by Toddles.
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The Worst Art Job Listing Ever Created
What exactly is this job you ask? Well..... Art World Family. That’s the phrase that inspired me to click on the listing for an Executive Assistant position on NYFA’s classified listings, curious about what this mysterious organization Art World Family was. I never heard of it before. Was it some sort of nonprofit for families in the art world, a notoriously low-paying (for most jobs), healthcare-less, and not exactly family-friendly industry? A childcare service? A program offering art education to families? [more inside]
What if your friends’ art sucks?
We were here to “Make friends, not art!” Well, that sounds fun. But what if your friends’ art sucks? Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness and toward the easier comforts of togetherness, advocacy and fun. If your friends’ art sucks, that’s actually no big deal — because being together matters more than doing something well. And if the German press say your friends’ art sucks, that’s OK, too — reassuring, actually, as evidence that this rotten colonizers’ world has no place for us. [more inside]
Sylvia Weinstock, the ‘da Vinci of Wedding Cakes,’ Dies at 91
Sylvia Weinstock, who took the art of baking to new heights with her 10-foot-tall wedding cakes and their garlands of hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of hand-painted sugar flowers, died on Nov. 22 at her home in Manhattan. She was 91.
non-paywall. [more inside]
Pass the pepper.
Wondering how to safely pass the pepper while socially distancing? Kinetic artist, Joseph Herscher of Joseph's Machine's has the answer for you.
What about if you need to pass the salt? He's resolved that too.
Considering taking up one-man cricket? He destroyed his house showing you how.
Tired of taking out the compost? A couple compost bags to the face, and he got it right.
That sibling bothering you? After accidentally making a "mean machine", he figured it out - fart spray and all. [more inside]
I am the eye that is looking at a spectacle.
Françoise Gilot, 97, Does Not Regret Her Pablo Picasso Memoir Gilot, an artist in her own right, does not regret the (at the time) controversial book she wrote about her 10 years with Picasso. To be republished this year, she had a few words to share with the NYTimes - all of them on point. [more inside]
"Some kind of inspiration porn on Deaf’s natural language"
A new mural commissioned by the ACLU of Idaho and executed with the help of the Idaho Falls Downtown Development Corporation was recently completed in downtown Idaho Falls. The selected artist’s concept employed American Sign Language subject matter, and was titled “Look and Listen.” The artist reviewed the work with a friend who teaches ASL, but did not consult with members of the Deaf community in advance. It did not go over well. [more inside]
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