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Artist Joy Garnett will donate painting to collector who gives $10K to Haiti relief
Joy Garnett's Evac (2005), an abstraction of New Orleans on fire after Hurricane Katrina
Artist Joy Garnett scours the media for news images of disasters, man-made or natural, that become the basis for her evocative paintings on canvas. Events from the Paris riots to Hurricane Katrina have sparked her work, but it's that last tragedy that's the subject of a painting (above) she says she'll give to the first collector who donates $10,000 or more for relief in earthquake-struck Haiti. Like the southeast Asian tsunami of 2005, Katrina is "a disaster that still reverberates," she tells Hrag Vartanian at Hyperallergic.MORE »
Painter/physician Dr. Sam brings affordable health care to Minneapolis artists
by Paul Schmeltzer, September 23, 2009 •
Shepard Fairey's studio hit with anti-ACORN stencil
by Paul Schmelzer, September20, 2009 • Rightwingers, normally champions of property-owners' rights, are apparently tagging LA with an anti-ACORN stencil, and they've reportedly hit, among other locations, Shepard Fairey's studio.MORE »
Is social media a fad?
by Paul Schmelzer | September 15, 2009 • Stats-rich presentation on the growth and ubiquity of social media. Takeaway: "Social media isn't a fad. It's a fundamental shift in how we communicate."
Déjà vu: Little Rock race protesters in '59 used same rhetoric as Obama foes today
by Paul Schmelzer | September 7, 2009 •
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