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May 2, 2008 - Hi everybody, we are way way behind even by our own modest schedule, bear with us, the best is yet to come.  Your email comments welcome at artbabyart@usa.com

A Favorite Quote: "I wasn't expecting anything and I got even less..." Jiminy Glick, Comedy Central


FLIRTING & BODY LANGUAGE:
* It takes between 90 seconds and four minutes to decide if someone likes someone else romantically

* 55% of the message picked up from someone comes through body language

* 38% is picked up from tone, speed and inflection of the voice

* 7% is picked up from what is actually said

* If someone likes someone else, their pupil size increases and so does their blink rate

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Until next time, break on through to the other side... PEACE


Of Interest:
Art Under Ground Studio
Quirky Space
Shop Hampden
Connecting-Art at the UN
Fiber Art
Funeria 2007
Latino Arts
Gallery ID8
Tart of the Month
Baltimore Art

headline news
The NEWS page now links you to major newspapers, cable, financial, weather news, as well as call for entries and show openings.  Just added, the top 30 headlines for Internet and High Tech News.

Readers and Writers Section
Book Reports - School's out, kids are home, you're on the beach or just need to feed your brain, check out this fast growing section of our site.  From New York writer Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb on the art of Jaisini and more.

OpEds and Reviews
William Hughes is a Baltimore attorney and author. He has been writing political commentaries for over 35 years.  Saying "No" to the War Party is his way of challenging the War Party, while raising the consciousness of the people to the dangers that they presently face from the ruthless and cunning globalist schemers.  Author William Hughes and Saying "No" to the War Party

Films: new
Mother of All Lies
Justice for Patrick Finucane

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March 2004 Anti-War Demonstration
The Passion of the Christ
USS Liberty
Protest in York, Pa
In Defense of Harry S. Truman
France Bashers
Jobless in America
Warmongering
War is Theft
Opinions and Editorials
Bushonomics 101
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From our readers
Note to Self™ - "Mortgage foreclosures are at depression era highs. Over three million middle class jobs have been exported in recent years. The Wall Street wise guys are in near-panic mode. The Fed, after 19 years of Alan Greenspan's gross ineptness, is held in deep contempt. Yet, Big Oil keeps sucking off the American consumer, with a devil-be-damned attitude, while acting like a law unto itself. I say: Fight back America and nationalize the oil industry! "  by Author Willam Hughes

A Frenzied Night Out at OUT OF ORDER 2008 - aka Free-Hung Benefit Exhibition at Maryland Art Place Baltimore Friday April 11.  It was a BLAST, muffled music, light on food, pretty good art but that "Open Beer and Wine Bar" rocked all night long! Here are a few pictures to enjoy, Out of Order 2008

The Spread - "Some side notes, it was quite a large crowd and we can honestly say we now know how sardines feel, also, these guys need to get a PROPERLY working and more PRIVATE bathroom complete with toilet paper and some kind of hand soap."   the Spread by Chaz and Josh

Preferred Drink - The Cinco de Mayo

Artist Gets Zapped - "Don't know about Zapplication, but my friend mentioned it the other day. I am all for jurying with digital images. Slides are expensive, cumbersome, and I only use them for show entries. I'm a little leery of having one point for all art show applications - I guess I'm paranoid that eventually all shows will converge into one huge, controlling, WalMart-esque entity..."  Don't Get Zapped!

Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? - "What Jessica Bowers (J Bowers Baltimore City Paper) thought were simple Klan figures, a Fifth Grader in any civics class in the US would whisper to their classmate, 'It's Abu Ghraib'.  WOW, now that's about as wrong as midnight and noon... At this rate of professional growth, Jessica Bowers, we are afraid, will never never get out of Kansas!"  About Show #7

Surreal Pop Art - "Driven by something he can't quite seem to put his finger on and something beyond his ability to control, over and over he sculpts a vision from his mind, a vision that he does not understand. Although his first efforts don't satisfy his mind's eye, he continues to search, to refine, until the time comes that he makes the connection between what is coming out of him and what it means..."  Kris Hoglund

Great EatsEat This - You're home alone again on another Friday night with nothing to do.  Here's a handfull of Hamberger recpies to warm up to, we really didn't know you could do all this to hamberger.  Don't dispair, there's always Saturday night, good luck!  Cool Hamberger Recipes

:: This Month's Art Shows, First Fridays, Openings, Receptions, et.al. ::

Feather Painting by Kelley PattersonLost and Found - here's a new section of artists that somehow along the way lost themselves on the internet only to resurface and be found again!  We just heard from one of our orginal featured artist, Kelley Patterson.   We are all glad to have found you once again, here is Feather Painting by Kelley Patterson

Top 10 Reasons to attend ANY art event...
Art Openings - First Fridays et al

Baltimore, MD - (formerly) Artscape 2007
Hon Fest 2007 - Oddly Attractive Festival
Hampden - Hampdenfest 2007
Hampden - 34th Street Christmas Lights
Philadelphia, PA - Manayunk Arts Festival 07
Tom Chambers - Zhaoqing University
Design Fiesta - Tokyo, Japan
ArtworkSF - Wallflower
Afrika Midnight - Asha Abney
San Fransisco - California Pioneers
Philadelphia - First Friday and Dinner
Philadelphia PA - Freeform Project
Girls Night Out - Melograno Restaurant

our featured artists:

coverzeph (3K)"I must not take myself too seriously. Surely there is a person being tortured by more than this somewhere else in the world. Surely there is something more important I could be obsessing about again today besides what's inside. There has to be something outside myself that matters as much if not more."  Ev Marinucci

Rono Figueiredo (3K)"Not far ago the cultural market demonstrated a great esteem for the "conceptual art" and now we see that this is not totally true anymore. Brazilian artists, in their majority, continue rescuing elements from their individual and collective experiences, however in a more subjective way, trying all the possibilities of visual languages. Brazilian art is modern and creative, without escaping from its affective and cultural memory." Art in Brazil - a tropical concept

The Art of Obed Gomez"I like Picasso, because of the themes he used. His paintings are very powerful, simple in some cases but above all he was himself and you can see it throughout his work. Some of my inspirations have been triggered by looking at his creations. To me he will always be one of the best artists ever"  Obed Gomez

Claudia Olivos"A painter ponders on issues regarding Latino/American identity I am moved to think about the ongoing debates about representation and identity in Latin American Art; I am moved to attempt theoretical artspeak regarding the marginalizing and appropriation of Latino images. It is my belief that there is a need for the redefinition of certain aspects and psychic contents in Latin American art, especially as these spring forth as a trend within current American culture . "  Claudia Olivos
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Quotable Quotes:
Beauty is not in the perfection but in the flaws.  "It's the crack that makes the plate exquisite."  Duane Michals

Winston Churchill once said,  "The man who doesn't step on anybody's toes is standing still."

"If it's not one thing it's another, if it's not that it's something else" Rosanne Rose Anna Danna

"Live the life you love, and use the god you trust, and don't take it all too seriously." -Love and Rockets.

"Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice. And she said we are all just prisoners here of our own device..."  HOTEL CALIFORNIA, THE EAGLES

"I am too involved in what I am doing, I cannot tear myself away from it.  For me nothing else exists."  Henri Matisse

"As someone once said, you can't avoid the aging process but you can always stay immature!" from a good friend, Lisa

"I wasn't expecting anything and I got even less..."  Jiminy Glick, Comedy Central

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."  Oscar Wilde


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What is Art?
This may be the second oldest question and probably no real answers, only guesses. If this is true, does art really exist outside the "eye of the beholder", is it a state of mind, a fleeting moment in a timeless universe, the play of shadows and light, can we taste it, can we hear it, can we read it? Maybe it is easier to define what art is not. A few thoughts on WHAT IS ART...

Art, Dope & Saving the World
Story Book Art from the Funny Farm
OUTSIDER ART?
EXISTENTIAL ART?
HOW THE MEANING OF ART EMERGES
SURREAL POP ART
LOW BROW ART

re:  Ibsen said, "There must be a troll in what I write."  Art, today, encompasses the dream postponed into anything-goes.  Justified in letting the artist descend into mediocrity, spiraling around an ego put upon a pedestal.  As if, all that a person does is art.  And it is.  But I have no time for it.  I agree with Harold Bloom in a recent interview.  He asked, would you want just anyone to do surgery on you?  Of course not.  You want someone to know what they are doing before they cut into you.  Yet today we look at the arts as if everything is the fine craftsmanship of a great artist, and much of it isn't.  Until you become yourself what benefit can you be to others?  Mediocrity appeals to the mass, and it appeals to the mass ego.  And though it may be art, it is not the exceptional dream, enchanting the child, like a kiss walking home to my knowledge, in an unformulated illustration which wakes me up.  Michael Carrico

To Post a Reply or Thoughts, please go to our new Forum, WHAT IS ART?

Realism v. Abstraction - "But throughout, the public generally continued its love of realism. Western art, in particular, flourished, and if what we read today in some journals is true, major museum and gallery curators are beginning to believe that at least some of the hype over certain 20th century art movements has been overblown. One recent article even went so far as to call minimalism and abstract expressionism 'scams', stating that curators are beginning to dust off the great works of realism that have been languishing in their basement vaults."  Realism

"Ultimately, I view my inspiration for the creation of abstract images to be the never-ending fluctuations of energy and matter as seen in interstellar space. I believe these far-flung aggregations of evolving matter to be the essence of truth and beauty. In my opinion, this endless evolution of chaos toward order represents the highest level of absolute potentialities, a timeless representation of a seemingly endless universe."  Abstraction


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