News: Outsider Art

For the first panel of day two here at the 2010 Game Developers Conference's iPhone gaming track, Oliver Miao of Centerscore Studios took the stage to talk about working on Surviving High School for the iPhone as a part of Electronic Arts' Mobile division. As Miao made clear early on, he's an "insider outsider" at EA:

An awesome airborn capture of a MIA staff member sledding during lunch right outside of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts doors.

Art is a reflection of what we are. It is the essence of our own existence, the key that leads us to the world outside, and it returns to us a door leading inside ourselves. Creating art is to invent ourselves one more time, giving life to the things that we see, giving a second opportunity to turn appearance into something more than what it is.

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, with...

Mishcon de Reya’s family department launched Creativity in Conflict, a collaboration with Central Saint Martins College to award prizes to its top MA fine art students. The event took place at the Imagination Gallery in Store Street and the acrobatic fire jugglers performing outside signalled that something distinctly odd was afoot. Inside nothing

Basically, look to great organizations in all sorts of fields to see what works with for them — and how you can apply their ideas to your problems. This is an exert from Bill Taylor's Harvard Business Review blog post on idea-swapping outside the immediate field (or sector or industry) we work in. This often isn't the case...

Now that the weather is getting warmer, I'm excited to build a fire, roast some marshmallows, and listen to some music outside. Spring is the perfect time...

Mar. 24, 2010... 12noon-CST... "Visual Arts Junction Radio Show" with Host Aggie Villanueva, known as the "Grandma Moses of the American Southwest" on Blog Talk Radio will Interview "The Golden Egg of Aging?", Shirley W. Mitchell, a National Author/Writer/Syndicated Columnist/Speaker and Celebrity Radio Talk Show Host of "Aging Outside the Box®" Sy

With a benefit event that proceeded through the heaviest snowfall of the winter, Art For Haiti NYC raised near $40,000 - through an art auction and donations - for Doctors Without Borders, a medical humanitarian organization providing tireless aid to the millions of people displaced by last month's devastating earthquake outside of Port-au-Prince.

The statue of Andy and Opie that sits outside the Surry Arts Council building in Mount Airy, NC, was painted red and green by vandals over the weekend. "Very sad. Very sad that someone would do that," said resident Judy Hansen.