http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ZKYhtSHmg&feature=youtu.be
…and when that ends, abruptly, finish watching at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU9h4L91PxM (which is also labeled “5/5” in the right-hand column of other selections).
Abe’s Retrospective
For once, we’re actually on top of things. Today was all about Abelardo Morell in Chicago, and it was a good day for that: not a lot else going on downtown except for his Art Institute opening, the weather held for his well-attended talk, and his reception at Stephen Daiter.
The Daiter show continues for two months, and the ‘Tute’s for three, but why wait until the last week of either? That’s the behavior of reviewers in the daily papers (if, indeed, both of them still cover work by “photographers”). Hie thee.
Catlow Culture
This is terrific: the Catlow Theatre will present a festival of the Academy Award-nominated short films on February 23, the day before the big ceremony. All ten films (the first five, animated; the latter, not yet rated) will be screened between noon and 4:00.
Here’s one of them: http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/watch_ipapermani_a_cgi_short_from_disney_that_looks_and_feels_like_classic_handmade_animation.html
Rock On Paper
Come, one and all, to the reception for Nate Azark at the Clair-y Smith Gallery Gallera. It’s this Thursday evening (January 31) from 6:30 to 8:00.
Scheduled to appear:
The exhibit of concert posters and photographs continues through February 14. https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/events/198337356971651/
Apply For The Advanced Placement 2-D Studio Course
NEXT YEAR’S JUNIORS & SENIORS:
Apply for
ADVANCED PLACEMENT
Art Studio Courses
*2-D Design*
*3-D Design*
*Drawing & Painting*
Submit a small portfolio:
5-8 best examples of your work,
along with sketchbooks,
by WEDNESDAY, February 13th (Drawing & Painting, February 6th).
Questions? Ask the nearest Art teacher.
Mural Art In Public Schools
Myron Nutting was commissioned in June 1934 to design and paint the Wauwatosa High School murals in the school’s art-deco style front lobby. 
Anyone who stood by the railing at the well between classes will remember the three-story high mural “Spirit of Education,” the WPA mural, in the main entrance hallway of Lincoln High School in the Cleveland Municipal School District. The mural is now a cultural and historical memorial which was painted specifically for the school in 1939 by artist, William Krusoe.
The large mural on the east wall of Dubuque’s Senior High School was painted by Cyrus Ferring in his spare time, the necessary expense borne by the student fund, and is a gift from Mr. Ferring to the school. It was hung in its present location in the summer of 1935.
This appeared, unannounced, over winter break in January 2013, filling some available space above the already-busy entry wall of Barrington Huge School. Rotating displays concerning student activities (occasionally giving way to student art), sit next to a patriotic collage hung over the shoulders of the reception desk attendant.
Rather than taking the allegorical approach used by many artists commissioned in times of financial uncertainty, the new piece consists of politically-correct buzzwords partially obscured by reproductions of yearbook-style photographs, each representing a decade of this particular school’s history; current logotypes used on district and school stationery; and the district’s “motto,” written in the style of other nearby districts. The application of spot color in the monochromatic reproductions, popular in 1980s television commercials and used sparingly (once) in a 186-minute Stephen Spielberg film twenty years ago, is employed no fewer than five times, apparently in an effort to unify the images. The designer is anonymous (design may have been by committee).
Yow.
Who’d-a thunk it?
“A word to the wise is sufficient.” -Alfred Stieglitz
A One-Person, Self-Contained System
“When you are twenty years old and the photography instructor begins lecturing on form versus content, or that a photograph cannot tell a story, or that there are no rules of composition, or that things are changed when you photograph them, or that a photographic print is an interpretation of the world by a camera, or that he didn’t develop his film for months or years after he shot it; things can get philosophical and confusing pretty quickly… After seeing Garry shoot on the streets for the first time, I instantly realized that his print critique used the exact same technique as his shooting: confront, judge, capture and comment.) No one could size up a print in 1/500 like Garry.’
http://www.ocgarzaphotography.com/documents/ClassTimewithGarryWinograndfinal3.pdf
Creative Camerawork 