We were thinking about the old Guild Studio School, which we miss - we were so hopeful that it would evolve into a degree-granting art school (wouldn’t that have been fabulous?). It was so sad that it closed in 2005, but there are still some great places in the area for art classes in everything from painting [...]
We recently saw an interesting documentary, In the Realms of the Unreal, about the artist Henry Darger. We first saw Darger’s work on the cover of local musician Mark Schwaber’s CD The Killing Card - the cover has a dark, post-apocalyptic scene with little girls running from a background of flames, smoke and explosions. The artwork [...]
We’ve been reading some excellent blog postings, “Why Artists Need To Be Online,” by UK artist and curator Kirsty Hall. She’s written a series of articles on the importance of putting your work online. These articles are a must-read for any artist.
In a previous post on this blog, we wrote:
Note to artists: put your work online, [...]
New year, new resolution to post more often. We plan to post more frequently and to expand our writing to include tid-bits of art news from art blogs and other online arts new sources. This blog is still evolving; the focus will still be on local visual art (i.e. in the Pioneer Valley area of [...]
We’re in the process of deciding how to categorize/organize our art links (on the right side of this page). We plan to expand them to include local artists (i.e. working within the Valley area) and art blogs.
If you’d like us to add a link, please email us: theartparlor@yahoo.com, or put it in a comment to this [...]
There’s so much art in western Massachusetts, but not alot of arts coverage. We aim to fill part of that gap by writing about our travels and visits to art in the Valley, and taking some photos along the way which we’ll post on Flickr as a companion to this blog.
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