New Art
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The New Art of Waiting for a Package
When the sun set on my birthday, I had spent 12-plus hours on my couch, looking out my living room window, waiting for a package that required my signature. It never came. Now I’m dead inside. I am 54. How did my life come to this? Let’s pull up my tracking number and see! Oct 12, 2021 (4:02 pm) Picked up in Brooklyn, N.Y. My package—let’s not concern ourselves with what it contains; all you need to know is that technology is involved, that the expensive device contained therein has improved specifications, that I desire it, that it will make my monotonous, stupid life worth living again—is on its way.…
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Asheville City Council approves purchase of new ART buses with combination of federal, local funding
Three new buses will be added to the Asheville Rides Transit (ART) fleet, under action taken by Asheville City Council. At their December 14 meeting, Council approved a resolution to purchase three 30-foot Gillig diesel buses to replace buses in the fleet as they near their useful service life. During the last five years, the City of Asheville has purchased 16 transit buses to replace vehicles in the fleet that have met its useful service life. The buses purchased include five electric buses, seven hybrid-diesel buses, and four diesel buses. The three buses being purchased will also use diesel fuel. Included in this bus purchase are transit accessories and…
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Half Moon Bay officials approve new art policy | Local News
Half Moon Bay has approved its first public art policy to guide how the city will manage funding, submission, evaluation and removal of public art, as the city looks at maintaining and removing several art pieces. The City Council unanimously approved a resolution of the policy at its Dec. 7 meeting following community outreach. Issues of funding, commission, submission, evaluation, installation, approval, maintenance and removal of art are specified in the plan. The new policy will clarify what artwork is placed on public property and provide guidance for financial help for the maintenance and acquisition of artwork. The city previously had no public art policy, which led to art being…
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James Cameron on New Art Book, The Future of the ‘Avatar’ Franchise
As a kid growing up in Chippawa, Ontario, James Cameron used to run to the drugstore every Friday after getting his allowance and blow it all on Mountain Dew and Marvel comic books. He’d then race home, tear through the new comics, and take out a notepad and try to create his own. “I would never re-draw panels,” Cameron tells Rolling Stone, “but I’d look at them and then do my own. That was always the process. Even at that time, I was trying to distinguish copying from original art.” His art from back then, which was also inspired by horror and science fiction films, included a comic he called…
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Horizon, a new studio space and residency program, welcomes emerging and midcareer artists
Emerging artists, take note: There’s a bright spot peeking through the horizon for 2022. Horizon, a new art space and residency program, will open its doors in downtown L.A. in February, the foundation announced on Friday. Former Whitney Museum of American Art curator Christopher Y. Lew will serve as chief artistic director of Horizon Art Foundation, traveling frequently to L.A. from his home in New York. L.A.-based May Xue, who previously steered Hong Kong’s K11 Art Foundation as general manager and director of education and institutional relations, is the initiative’s CEO. The L.A.-based Chinese art patrons Jason Li and Harry Hu are the sole funders of the nonprofit. Horizon’s mission?…
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Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down, Transformed Into New Art | Smart News
Crews removed the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from its perch in Charlottesville, Virginia, in July 2021. Controversy over the statue’s fate sparked the violent “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post / Getty Images Last summer, Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd spurred communities across the globe to remove or dismantle the racist public art decorating their government halls, museums, parks and city squares. Many of these monuments were tucked away in storage facilities. Others, such as the American Museum of Natural History’s Theodore Roosevelt statue and the toppled bronze likeness of an enslaver in Bristol, England,…