Nantucket Art

After 30 years the first Beach Boys solo album, Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue , finally get’s the reissue it deserves. (more…)

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. (more…)

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.

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.

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.)