Stephen Glassman’s idea for an art installation was an ambitious one: Transform a billboard above one of the busiest freeways in Los Angeles into a living bamboo forest, surrounded by a cloud of mist and augmented with air-quality monitors and Wi-Fi. Finding an appropriate site was only the beginning: Using the billboard required a permit,… Read More
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SHARJAH: Maraya Art Centre – an initiative by the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) – will be hosting an interactive evening focused on the global phenomenon that is revolutionising project financing – crowdfunding. Taking place on June 5, the event is being held in collaboration with Aflamnah, the UAE-based platform dedicated to supporting creative… Read More
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The Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen understands how communities can fuel creativity. The artist Theaster Gates knows how creativity can invigorate a community. What happens when they put their heads together? At first glance, an Internet entrepreneur and an artist seem to operate in different creative spheres. Yet Perry Chen, the co-founder and C.E.O. of the… Read More
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Razoo.com, a crowdfunding site for causes, has launched the Smithsonian’s first major crowdfunding campaign. The online fundraiser will support the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s “Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” the world’s first exhibition on the visual history of yoga. The fundraiser begins today, May 29, and runs through July 1, 2013. This is the first… Read More
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Greg Puciato is lead singer of popular hardcore act The Dillinger Escape Plan, and he had some pointed words about the crowdfunding space as it relates to artists and musicians. He basically makes an argument that asking for money as a prerequisite to making art is against the idea of what it is to make… Read More
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“Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” will be on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery October 19th through Jan. 26, 2014. This is the world’s first exhibition about the discipline’s visual history and will reveal its fascinating meanings and histories over the past 2,000 years. To support the exhibition, the museum is launching the Smithsonian’s first… Read More
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Ever since Amanda Palmer raised a million plus dollars on Kickstarter to fund her latest album, folks have been fascinated with the idea of Crowdfunding. Kickstarter claims to have raised almost a half a billion dollars to fund new business endeavors since it’s inception three years ago. The latest venture to successfully raise money is… Read More
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Spring has sprung: time to crack open the windows, break out the vacuum cleaner, and tidy up the old homestead. If all goes well, once you’ve sent off the old clothes and clutter to Goodwill, you’ll be left with a good bit of empty space. We suggest refilling a portion of it with sleek prints… Read More
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Local writer and photographer Monica Topping recently launched a crowdfunded calendar project called “small town: BIG ART” through Kickstarter.com. The idea of the 2014 calendar is to celebrate Humboldt County art and artists through photo essays and interviews. Limited to only 12 calendar pages, Topping’s goal was to offer as much artistic variety as possible, featuring… Read More
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A big story that no one noticed: Last year, the crowd funding company Kickstarter distributed more money for the arts than the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This isn’t surprising. We’re living in times where every dollar government spends is getting harder to justify and funding a poetry chapbook which, regardless of its aesthetic value, will probably… Read More
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When Jeff Bowen’s off-Broadway musical “Now. Here. This.” closed last year, he and his collaborators were left with some great things — plenty of good reviews, some new fans and memories. That was great, but what they really wanted was a cast album. A recording would be both a great marketing tool and a souvenir…. Read More
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How about an authentic New Yawk bagel to go along with those three shots of caffeine? “Triple Espresso,” the long-running, locally born-and-raised stage comedy, has set its sights on an off-Broadway run — if backers can raise $300,000 through a Kickstarter campaign launched Saturday afternoon. First performed in 1995, the G-rated, vaudeville-style show about a… Read More
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French museums and monuments are some of the most visited in the world. None of them is getting any younger, and many need restoration and renovations. With budget cuts across all parts of the government, French cultural institutions are turning to new ways of raising money, including online crowd funding. Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and… Read More
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As inevitably occurs at the end of any seminal period – such as a year – pundits will reflect on events which have occurred and the impact they will have on the future. Yes Crowdfunding is hot. Only recently entered into the common lexicon, every daily news site and niche blog has a scattering… Read More
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PARIS — The crass term for it is begging, but the French prefer a loftier description: “participatory financing.” For as little as a single euro even the most ordinary art connoisseur can join the fund-raising fraternité that is working to restore the dome of the Panthéon here. Contribute a few hundred more and you get… Read More
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