Last minute gift ideas

While reading Amy Stein's blog, I was reminded of the great print collections in the Library of Congress, Museum of the City of New York, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The prints are affordable at $28-$125 and they would make gorgeous gifts (for any time of the year). I own a good number of the ones from the Met (I helped produce some of them) and I think they are top notch. I'm sure other museums and institutions offer prints sales as well. It's a great way to support them.

Xaviera Simmons

Via The Center for Photography at Woodstock I came across the work of Xaviera Simmons who studied at Bard and the Whitney (Independent Study Program). Unfortunately not much of her work is visible online. However if you find yourself in Atlanta today head over to the High Museum of Art and here the Drisklell Prize winner speak about her work.

Special Event - FEATURED EVENT

Driskell Prize Recipient: Xaviera Simmons

July 25, 2008, 6-8 p.m.

Hill Auditorium
Free.

Julia Margaret Cameron @ The Met

Through September 2008 on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is an exhibit titled "Framing a Century", curated by Malcolm Daniel, including works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Brassai, William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton and more.
You can read a review of the show by Roberta Smith titled "Aristocracy of Talent for an Egalitarian Art" for the New York Times here and see a Times slide show of some of the works here.

Focus Awards Recipients

The Griffin Museum anounced Deborah Willis as a recipient of the Lifetime achievement award and Jen Bekman as a Rising Star for their Focus Awards that is taking place tonight.

"Killer Statue- Psyched about the Site"

This NYTimes article describes the phenomenon of museums using websites such as facebook and myspace to lure in a new generation of art appreciators.

Someday search 13 million photos

Someday all of the 13 million photographs in Smithsonian Institute will be accessible to viewers, as described in this NYtimes article.