Christopher Stone’s Adam and Eve and Christmas Musings

What do Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Rodin, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and Robert Rauschenberg all have in common ? except being great artist’s, they all suffer, or suffered from some form of Dyslexia. Barry Flanaganonce told me that he’d seen boys beaten in school for Dyslexia, he did however go on to say that its good for artistic endeavors, something about the brains left side, Talking of Barry Flanagan, I remember one time near Christmas a few years [...]

Talking about Creativity: Rodin, Cellini and Picasso

Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing. The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating “from nothing” in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class. [from Wikipedia] Creativity is like sex. You fumble your way through, you get lost in [...]

Charles Saatchi Donates 200 Artworks Valued at More than 25 Million Pounds, Gallery to UK

LONDON.- Art collector Charles Saatchi has a gift for Britain. It includes Tracy Emin’s messy bed, Grayson Perry’s explicit pottery and a room full of engine oil. The advertising tycoon, whose patronage made household names of artists like Emin and Damien Hirst, announced Thursday he is donating his London gallery and 200 works in its collection to the nation as a new public art museum. The gallery said the works, valued at more than 25 million pounds ($37 million), will [...]

Yeah, We killed the golden goose

I read recently of someone having a pop at Damien Hirst because he is laying off staff, the same article refers to “Sliced up cows”, it states how much money Hirst has supposedly to have made from such, another article tells us about his plans for his own gallery in Hyde park. My take on all this is as follows, Multinationals with very deep pockets are always laying people off, no one can, or wants to “Keep paying” when the in coming [...]

Exhibition of Photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd Opens at the Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Johnnie Shand Kydd is an acclaimed documentary photographer perhaps best known for his portraits of artist friends such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. In 2000 he embarked on a longterm project to capture the dramatic and chaotic world of Naples. Having never visited the city before, he soon developed a relationship with it that he described as ‘akin to a drug habit’, returning again and again over the next eight years. Naples is known as the ‘Siren City’ [...]

Emin Scrawls and Perry Shocks at Royal Academy’s Summer Show

LONDON (REUTERS).- Artist Tracy Emin provided the kind of emotional drama she is famous for, but it was cross-dressing ceramicist Grayson Perry who delivered the shock blow at the opening day of the British Royal Academy‘s summer art exhibition show in London on Monday. Emin had four works and Perry only one on display in the world’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition held every summer at the Academy’s imposing 17th century building in London’s luxurious Mayfair neighborhood. Emin and [...]