Work copyright Zoe Brookes

We loved stumbling upon this blog and finding the exquisite doodles of Zoe Brookes. Of her Nantucket inspired sketches she writes “Lanterns, flags, sea shells, some harpoons mixed in there, plus some general nautical imagery for good measure. Plans? Definitely a strung up lantern pattern for maybe fabric application (I’m thinking a skirt?) and maybe play the old school metal ones against a more vibrant, playful paper lantern design. Also I want to play with the flags more! Results to come!”

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Nantucket Inspired Art

For those of you who don’t know – you can find us and a bunch of other Nantucket islanders and artists on Twitter. Check us and some of our favorites out below:

http://twitter.com/Nantucket_Art
http://twitter.com/NantucketPhotog
http://twitter.com/timeril
http://twitter.com/SomethinNatural
http://twitter.com/FilmTruth
http://twitter.com/nantucketbooks
http://twitter.com/coldnosephoto
http://twitter.com/Nantucket_Sully
http://twitter.com/Amandablum
http://twitter.com/GrantSanders
http://twitter.com/GeneMahon
http://twitter.com/refreshcapecod
http://twitter.com/ManFmNantucket

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Nantucket Art Twitter

As record crowds brave freezing temperatures for President Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, it’s worth considering that few political figures in the recent past have generated such an outpouring of support amongst creatives and artists or reached icon status so quickly. Here’s a-few examples of Obama Art courtesy of ArtCulture Magazine.

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Inauguration Day Art – Obama the Icon

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:

• 1 Theme of Choice from Blogalized.com
• 1 License of the WPRemix theme
• 3 Single-User Revolution theme licenses (theme of choice)
• 1 5-pack of themes from WordPress Themes Market (to be released shortly after WP Day)
• 1 free 30-day banner ad on WPforSale.com
• 4 Copies of the Viva Zoom Pro plugin
• 4 Copies of the Viva Carousel Posts plugin
• 4 All-Inclusive Dev Packages from Premium News (valued at $500 each)
• 1 iThemes.com Developers Package

All you have to do to enter is post a blog entry about WordPress and link back to WPCandy. Head over there to find out more..

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Free WordPress Goodies – Premium Themes and Plugins

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.

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The Best Record of The Summer

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..

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The Beep Seals ‘Things That Roar’ Album Art

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…

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Bo Diddley Art Tribute

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.

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Robert Rauschenberg dies at 82

The Two Percent is a new Art site based in New York that claims only 2% of the cities galleries are worth seeing, and aims to show you which they are.

It’s a pretty aggressive stance to take – and we look forward to our next trip into the city to see if they got it right.

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Ninety-Eight Percent of Art is RUBBISH !!??

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

(*Image ArtSlant © Kiyoko Lerner, Courtesy Andrew Edlin Gallery. Henry Darger, Darger Discoveries, March 28 – June 7, 2008; Andrew Edlin Gallery, Darger Discoveries.)

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Darger Discoveries