HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US - three years old today!

WELL DONE and THANK YOU Three years ago today the first post on Art Blogs 4 U said:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About Art Blogs 4 UHave you ever tried to join a list of links to art blogs? (there are several...

The Song Is You

It might seem innocent.Yes, this is innocence. It is the purity of what happens when the postmodernisms and the camps and the sooavantgardes have made their statements and played their anti-tunes, and yet, we are still there, trying to listen in to that something special.Call us romantic. Call us Those...

Past Present

Take a look at the pictures by Roger Cremers. The series, which won an award at the 2009 World Press Photo, is called Preserving Memory: Visitors at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 30 April-4 May.No, I will not be writing about how the ever-present cameras...

How To Win An Art Contest In One Easy Step

Make one.Tom Polo created the 2009 B.E.S.T. Contemporary Art Prize for Painting contest. The criteria were typical of the art contests we know. Except for one small point, which stated:eligible entrants are artists born on the 1st February, 1985 and named as 'Tommaso Polo'...

Anonymous. 3 works by Armin Rohr

I can't get these pictures out of my head.Especially the last one is mesmerizing. Is it peaceful? Mysterious? Haunting? Creepy? Brutal?The mass in the first two paintings that makes up a threatening, or at least disquieting block, is here replaced by three distinct figures....

If You Want To Cry

...cry to this.My Mother, My Son by Mary FreyAnd another one, less obvious, but no less gorgeous - Bathroom Landscape:Every once in a while the question comes back lurking: are there things that are not to be shown? Or rather: not to be worked at? Do you imagine this -...

Zoonoia

From the crazy guys at Koerner Union comes the most original dog portrait of 2008:

...and the most unappealing digital album of 2007 - Ready Made. Which is also an accomplishment of sorts.