by Alan Todd | Apr 10, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
There is nothing new about artists poking the bear for a variety of causes from government inaction to government action to the need to help all-powerful godheads whose power may be waning. But then again, artists need sponsors and money to protest about...
by Alan Todd | Apr 3, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
We know about copyright – that’s when you get to sue the likes of a government, a big tech company or your local fish wholesaler for using one of your images without permission for up to seventy years after your death, should you have the resources or time. But moral...
by Alan Todd | Mar 28, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Is ABSTRACT art for its own sake still a valid art practice? Hasn’t it all been done? Every day I see another painting derived from the mystical connection between the inner workings of a human mind and a canvas – that endless quest for the ‘god particle’ of physics...
by Alan Todd | Mar 21, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
I’ll be first to admit that I don’t understand cryptocurrency or NFTs, or for that matter, algorithms and blockchains. But then again, I struggle to understand many tech-related things and simply accept that somewhere in the world there are people who do. I have a...
by Alan Todd | Mar 13, 2021 | Opinion
The idea of self-regulation in the Arts is an interesting one and given the process through which Magnum photos is currently going to cull unacceptable images and their tags from their million strong collection, an apropos one. There is nothing new about...
