The Daily Palette Digital Collection

Every day, the staff members at the Daily Palette Digital Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries put up a new artwork by a different Iowa artist. Since the project was launched in 2004, the collection has profiled over 1,000 artists working in the fine arts, literature, video, and the performing arts. 
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/dp/index.php

Gustav Klimt: The magic of line

The Getty Museum is known for a number of firsts when it comes to creative art exhibits, and they have recently embarked on the first retrospective fully dedicated to the drawings of Gustav Klimt. This particular exhibition was organized by the Albertina Museum in Vienna, in collaboration with the Getty Museum, to mark the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. Klimt was one of the seminal figures of international Modernism and approximately 4,000 of his drawings survive. http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/klimt/index.html.http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/klimt/index.html

Design.org

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MoMA: Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan

The late artist Alighiero Boetti is probably most well known for his series of embroidered maps of the world, "Mappa," that he designed and handed over to Afghan craftswomen to stitch, resulting in intricate and finely crafted pieces. Why, then, does this quote from the artist open the exhibition website: "First of all I prefer thought. This is the basic thing. I really think manual skill is secondary…"? Read on about Boetti to discover that his work explored opposites: "order and disorder, duality and multiplicity, travel and geography, time and space, and intention and chance," resulting in the varied body of work in the exhibition, ranging from the embroideries to more conceptual pieces. Boetti expressed this duality in his artistic persona as well, often signing his work "Alighiero e Boetti," twinned personas representing his opposite sides. 
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/boetti/

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, London, this major exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein's work is a great summer vacation destination - and, for those who can't arrange travel to Chicago or London, the website provides a fun mini-break. Short videos at the site include curator James Rondeau, talking about installing the "largest exhibition ever devoted to the iconic American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein."
http://roy.artic.edu/

Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

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