Art Obituaries is an immensely interesting project designed to commemorate "art that was" by documenting accounts of an artwork's death, and thus creating a living discourse where there once was none.

Through an online process on their website, they invite artists to document the untimely or planned death of their work of art, providing a rare glimpse into an artwork's eleventh hour, exploring the nature of an artwork's life, death, and the process in-between. Artists are encouraged to investigate the concept of their artwork's obituary through a written or photo essay, text, image or whatever creative expression that pays proper tribute to their dearly departed.

Visit them here.

When Madmen Rule

Bailey on Shirin Neshat, Iran, and the execution of gay teens in Iran.

Read it here.

Calligraphart

Rose Folsom’s artwork grows out of her life-long passion for writing and of her years as a professional calligrapher. After years of study in classical western writing, Ms. Folsom began to explore writing as an expressive art: words and moving lines working together to say something new through their shape, movement and color.

Rose Folsom: Written Paintings will be on display at the first floor galleries in Strathmore Mansion on Rockville Pike opening on November 20th from 3-5PM. The show goes through Dec. 30th.

Top 100

Matt with a list of the "Power 100" in international art from the Financial Times.

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Boy or Girl?

"Hey, is that a boy or a girl? - Artists Look at Gender" is a new exhibition opening next Friday, November 4th from 6:00pm-to 10:00pm and on view through Sunday, December 4th, 2005 at the Warehouse Gallery.

Below is "going...#1" by Allison B.Miner.

Some of the artists in the show include JS Adams, Richard Kightlinger, Dan Murray, Ruth Trevarrow, Scott G. Brooks, Ira Tattelman, Steve Sticher, Mark Osele, Dylan Scholinski, John Borstal, Alison B. Miner, Isabel Bigelow, Luis Castro, Sam Huang, Lynette Spencer, Judy Jashinsky, Matt Hollis, Jeff Morin, Abby Freeman, Sally Laux and more!

Wolov on Blake on Me on Blake...

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News Break!

The Style section has a visual arts review on a Monday!

P.S. No, not a DC show silly, it's a Brooklyn Museum restrospective of a Canadian photographer.

Burtynsky is 6 feet 2 and, aside from a graying goatee, he doesn't look particularly artsy, nor is there anything pretentious or obscure about the way he discusses his work. He could pass for upper management at some small business where it's always casual Friday, which is actually what he was, for a while. In the mid-'80s he started a photographic printing company called Toronto Image Works, which he still owns and which now has 35 employees.

News Break II
We're philistines!

News Break III

The WaPo's former Chief Art Critic on Monica Castillo at NMWA.

The WaPo's current Chief Art Critic on Turkish Imperial silks Putting on a dazzling show at the Sackler.