Lots of interesting links

First sound artist to win the Tate's Turner Prize... interesting...as are the protests around Cameron's cuts for the arts & education.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/scottish-artist-wins-turner-prize-for-a-recording/?ref=design

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/06/turner-prize-winner-susan-philipsz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/08/glasgow-turner-prize-winner-philipsz

Eggleston before color. Just as chilling and beautiful as the later images. Love him so.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/03/william-eggleston-photography-before-colour

Most interesting of all - nice grant for online education at the hirshhorn.

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36541/hirshhorn-scores-macarthur-money-for-digital-learning-center/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-dc-art-hirshhorn-mac,0,3303427.story

Mark Bradford - Kickstarter-esque initiative for artists

Mark Bradford is fantastic. I have to say. I love his work, I think he as a person (from a long distance) is charming and earnest. And his stuff is beautiful, too. A nice bonus...

Today a really interesting announcement was made -- Mark is giving $100,000 to help start a "Kickstarter" for artists. He speaks in a really compelling way about how artists basically do this for one another already. They have parties with friends and sort of pass the hat to get things off the ground.

Institutions do this kind of work as well. For example, the Whitney awards the Bucksbaum award to one Biennial artist every two years. It comes with a $100,000 prize and the opportunity to compose a show in the lobby gallery. Mark won this a few years ago. It's nice seeing someone so willing to pass on that sort of opportunity to someone else.

CLICKISTAN - Online Fundraising at the Whitney

Last week, our Membership Team launched -- what we believe to be -- an innovative, creative online fundraiser. CLICKISTAN is a work of online game art created by UBERMORGEN.COM.

The impulse here is to try to harness some of the energy and excitement around microdonations to benefit the Whitney's Annual Fund. Annual Fund gifts support everything we do at the Whitney and are fully tax deductible.

Online fundraising is an interesting space and is poised to change a lot in the next few months and years. It's something I'm thinking a lot about these days. The Guggenheim launched a nice online fundraising campaign this fall leveraging cool giveaways. Creative Time does really brilliant email campaigns. Some good ideas are emerging but there is a lot of room for improvement and growth here. I'm excited...

Play CLICKISTAN -- support the arts. It's fun.