By tonight Bilal’s back will be tattooed with the names of Iraqi cities, 5,000 red dots representing dead American soldiers and 100,000 dots in invisible ink representing the official death toll for Iraqis. The dots representing the Iraqi death toll ...Read More

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. – Susan Sontag Read More

Father Guido Sarducci use to be a regular on Saturday Night Live. If you've never seen him explain what a sweet gig it is being an artist, here's your chance, Need we say more? Read More

Interested in a residency in the wilderness of Alaska? Have dreams of an outdoor adventure hiking the backcountry with a Park Ranger? Well the National Park Service has a residency opportunity for you. Gates of the Arctic National Park and ...Read More

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site seeks proposals for its 2011 tour season. The historic site will fund a maximum $7,500.00 per project. This funding includes approval to exhibit during the next exhibition cycle. All projects that are approved will be installed ...Read More

The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce its first Photography Portfolio Competition. The application deadline for the competition is May 15, 2010. All applications must be submitted online. The competition is open to everyone ...Read More

The 2009 National Medal of Arts was awarded to Frank Stella, for his accomplishments as one of the world’s most innovative painters and sculptors.  His sophisticated visual experiments -- often transcending boundaries between painting, printmaking, and sculpture -- are modern ...Read More

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.) -- Robert Rauschenberg, 1959 from the New York Times Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art ...Read More

The Philadelphia Art Hotel is pleased to announce an open call for 2010 Resident Artist Applications! PAH is an ...Read More

starring lauren weedman and john krynick We follow John Krynick on twitter. Not exactly sure how it happened but that is one of the joys of twitter. Must have been something he said. That lead us to his blog and then ...Read More

The PooL Art Fair is different from all other art fairs in the US. Although there is a tradition in France of independent art fairs, starting from the famous Courbet’s Salon des Independents, PooL is the premiere fair in the ...Read More

Lana Santorelli Gallery has an open submission policy, accepting work year round.  They encourage artists to submit work based on upcoming exhibition themes though you may also submit work to the gallery as a general submission. They are currently curating ...Read More

Me At The Center Of The Earth Exhibition January 10 - May 30, 2010 Found this wonderful presentation and conversation with Nick Cave at added it to our artLIFE channel. It includes a lecture presentation by Nick Cave about his signature Soundsuits and ...Read More

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