Below are pics of the entire #quilts, and close-ups them. These were both made by my mom + are in storage at her place in New Jersey. Both would be great for anyone with small children, they'd be great for swaddling aa little one with. The dimensions of the 1st one are 44 x 54 in (112 x 137 in), the 2nd one is 52 x 72 in (132 x 183 cm). If u like either of these ones, or want to inquire about other quilts, send me a msg! I have about a dozen other ones to choose from too! ✨✨✨ #quilt#art#arts
As the row over Baillie Gifford's arts sponsorship gathers pace (Fossil Free Books are trying to end BG's sponsorships due to their involvement with fossil fuel firms), the bigger Q. is as more sponsorship is accused of using taineted money, how are arts & associated cultural events to be funded?
Accusations of greenwashing may be right but what is less developed is an alternative funding model for the arts.
Other than state funding (which seems unlikely) what else is there?
Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."
Whoa, the Government of Canada has an incredibly detailed page on the dark art of scanning photographs with a flatbed scanner. It is full of practical & theoretical info, incl. color theory (color space, models, gamuts, accuracy, distance, illuminance, bit depth, dynamic range, etc.), common scanning issues… and you can even the #Coloraid (Wolf Faust) "IT 8.7/2" color calibration target referenced, plus #GIMP screenshots 🤯
In search of laughs at the 2024 #Venice#Biennale
There may have not been a coherent thread at the Biennale di #Venezia this year, entitled Foreigners Everywhere, but Stanley Moss did manage to find true treasures among the repetition and pretentiousness
Photographed by Gioia Meller Markovicz
Abalone shells are really something special. Each piece is one of a kind and I did the beading work to fit their blue green, golden and purple stunning nature. Find yours on the little shop etsy shop: https://genderlessbyskaly.etsy.com
New handmade works carefully made with the dream to shine with just the right person. Know someone for whom they're perfect for? They're all now half off on my shop for one week: https://www.etsy.com/shop/genderlessbyskaly