Next Tuesday (July 2nd) has been officially designated Unofficial International WordPress Day by the folk over at WPCandy and they have some pretty good stuff to give away to celebrate. For anyone who dosn’t know, Wordpress is a open source publishing platform allowing users to build blogs and CMS websites with the minimum of coding knowledge (we use it here at Nantucket Art). Here’s what we’re giving away:
After 30 years the first Beach Boys solo album, Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue , finally get’s the reissue it deserves. It’s been something of a lost masterpiece since it’s release in 1977 - and to this days still stands up as a haunting masterpiece, everything thing about it feels like a lovesong to the ocean, and after years of owning a ragged but treasured bootleg copy we are the Nantucket Art offices are happy it’s finally available on CD. Read a full review at Popmatters.
We’re psyched in the Nantucket Art offices today that we finally ordered our copy of the brand spanking new Beep Seals album today (visit their myspace), featuring some lovely sleeve art from Matt Sewell. Get your copy by clicking the sleeve art above..
A bad month for innovators - if it wasn’t bad enough hearing of the death the Artist Robert Rauschenberg, news now reached us at Nantucket Art that ‘The Originator’ Bo Diddley passed yesterday too. Diddley was an inspiration to R’n'B and the Art world in equal measure (see the Peter Blake painting above) and the modern worlds of Music and Art would be radically different without them both…
The NY Times sadly reported last week that the American artist Robert Rauschenberg has died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.
In 1953, Rauschenberg stunned the art world by erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning. He went on to become the first American artist to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale and become one of the best loved American Contemporary Artists of our time.
Anyone planning a trip off island into New York over the next few months could do alot worse than pop along to the The Andrew Edlin Gallery - currently playing host to one of the most celebrated examples of outsider artists America has ever known.
Henry Joseph Darger was a reclusive American writer and artist who became famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal along with several hundred beautiful and brilliant drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.
Andrew Edlin Gallery
529 W. 20th St., 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011
28 March 2008 - 07 June 2008
Is Music Art? Is Art Music? Any of you who made it over to SXSW last month may have caught The Tings Tings amazing set there. This debut single caused a storm over in the UK last year and just got a re-release and shiny new video - ENJOY..
