Category Archives: Art

The Way Wants to Show you The Way

A group of recent graduates from York University have written a fun play about modern western civilization’s current obsessions. The writers of the play, The Way are concerned about the lack of social and environmental awareness in North America and warns us that this will come back to haunt us.

Obviously they want to change that; the play sends the message that people must become more aware of their surroundings.

For an in-depth review of the play check out my post on it at blogTO.com. The play is running this week in Toronto more information can be found at the SummerWorks Festival website.

Protest With Style


rtMark has been around for awhile, so long that they are now 10 years old. rtMark specializes in challenging the capitalistic ideal through pranks and creative exploitation of the system already in place, like media hype.

Protesterâ„¢ is one of their latest offerings which provides a place for activists to convene and share their ideas/skills/experinces.

Check out the projects section to easily get involved.

New UK law for art looted by Nazis.

A proposed new law in the United Kingdom seeks to make it easier for art looted by the Nazis before and during World War II to be returned to its rightful owners or their decedents. In the run up to World War II, invading German forces would loot the collections of Jewish art collectors. In the aftermath, more than a few of these pieces found their way into museums, either because of an inability of their rightful owners to track them down, or because their rightful owners had been killed in the Holocaust.

Spurred by the example Jewish-Czech Arthur Feldman, whose collections was sold for pittance to a UK gallery after the Holocaust, Culture Minister David Lammy is trying to speed through the changes, which would make it a simpler process for families to file claims.

We want your smARTs!

This site of good things is looking for more good things. We are looking for artists and their good art. If you have some you would like to share with the world let us know!

Pictures, music, poetry, movies, words, or whatever you have to make the world better can be sent to vanessa(at)thingsaregood.com

cARTalog

University of Iowa librarians have a cool project on their hands. They are taking all those old outdated library card catalog cards and turing them into art. This is a really neat idea for otherwise useless cards.

From the article: “UI Libraries Assistant Conservator Kristin Baum, who oversees the art project, said about one million cards will be sent in the coming months to school children, book artists, poets, writers and other artists.”