Facebook pulls Andy Warhol’s school paintings from NY Academy of Art page

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Posted on 22nd February 2011 by Brian in Art News |Links |Social Media

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Facebook pulls andy warhol

Facebook pulls andy warhol

Facebook is in the doghouse again – and this time it is none other than the New York Academy of Art taking them to task for their online censoriousness.

The dispute has rumbled onward in the Academy’s official blog since the end of January, when Facebook notified the administrator of the Academy’s official Facebook page that the social network was removing a drawing by Steven Assael – on the grounds that it violated terms and conditions.
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This was followed by a block on the Academy uploading ANY image for seven days – presumably on the grounds that they were known repeat offenders.

The fact that this work is currently in an exhibition curated by the Academy and shown at the Eden Rock Gallery in St Barths was no defence. It included nudity – and that was that.

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President Barack Obama Lauds Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients

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Posted on 22nd February 2011 by Brian in Art News |Links

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WASHINGTON (AP).- President Barack Obama recognized one former president and 14 artists, athletes, civil rights activists, humanitarians and others Tuesday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for contributions to society that he said speak to “who we are as a people.”

This year’s recipients “reveal the best of who we are and who we aspire to be,” Obama said at a White House ceremony.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor. It is given in recognition of contributions to U.S. national security, world peace, culture or other significant public or private endeavors. Tuesday’s medals were the second set Obama has awarded.

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The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art at the Mississippi Museum of Art

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Posted on 22nd February 2011 by Brian in Art News |Exhibitions |Links

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JACKSON, MISS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art presents The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918, the eleventh exhibition in The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series. On view February 19 through July 17, 2011, the exhibition is organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, and curated by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.

Established in 1989 to honor the memory of Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin, one of the Museum’s most dedicated patrons and volunteers, the Hearin series showcases exhibitions of world-class art, attracting visitors to Jackson from across Mississippi, the Southeast, and beyond.

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Google’s New Art Project

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Posted on 1st February 2011 by Brian in Art News |Links

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Google Art Project

Capturing works of art for the Google Art Project

Google’s new art project, a collaboration with art museums around the world to enable viewing of their collections via the internet. It started off as a ’20% project’ – the time set aside for Google engineers to work on their own ideas.

Google says it’s worked with 17 art museums including, Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen – Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum.

The website allows viewing of famous artworks, all done in 360 degree ‘Street View’-style tours of individual galleries. A special ‘trolley’ was used to capture 360 degree images of the interior of various galleries, which were then stitched together to enable navigation. There are over 385 rooms within the featured museums to view.

Each image of artwork is take in what Google calls “super high resolution”, which has more pixels than the human eye can even see.“Enabling the viewer to study details of the brushwork and patina beyond that possible with the naked eye.”

The ‘Create an Artwork Collection’ feature allows users to save views of any of the artworks and build their own personalised collection which can be shared with other users.

Check out the Google Art Project