N Art Magazine's Daily Dish

happy thanksgiving....

as mentioned  before.......the N Art Magazine TV show is on THIS sunday at 4 p.m. on channel 10 (ABCTV) 

it is about the thanksgiving table.

or should i say, the elements of the thanksgiving spread.

we have:

 silverware - as art

ceramic ware as art

lightening as art

waiting in the livingroom, er the livingroom, as art.

 reading magazines as art 

travel photo sharing as art

conversation as art

and finally the meal as art.

the meal is actually a DADA performance..................

 please come visit us on sunday.

we have a special co-host who is an artist and photographer - simon loli along with our own host brooke binkowski.

TAKE PART - 

let us know if you feel your art or your gallery, business or other, can fit into our stated themes of the coming year - or if you would like to get involved with N Magazine, please feel free to contact me, Lisa Bebi at (619)  916-9040

lisabebiart@aol.com

The future:

Upcoming themes - tentative  schedule:

our next show will be about the art of little italy (airs december 20, saturday at 4 p.m., channel 10).

january - will be about political art, the color tan, art critics

february - femme art, emerging art scene, the color pink

march - the color green, our forces, sculpture

april - anything fluid, wet or slick, art/galleries by the sea.

may - flowers, north county festivals

june -the color yellow, del mar, dance 

july - the colors blue and red, mountains, comics

august -rest, siestas, sleep, the color lavender

september -wood, the color brown, hairdos 

october - day of the dead, the color black, the new mexican culture 

november - foreign affairs, small groupings, the color orange, theater

december - the colors dark green and silver, mixed media, small town 

new proposed segments:

"Art Detective":

where the hosts of the show go out and "find" the interesting "diamond on the rough" works of art.

"Your Green Spot":  up close look at creating with recycling in mind

"The Workshop":  hands on cool art

and as always...."Gallery Walk": a local artist classifieds section (15 seconds each) -a segment on who is out there and how to contact them.

Please feel free o contact me about any of these ideas or segments.

also if you or your group would like to sponsor the show or in-part sponsor our show, please email me for a press kit and sponsorship package.  

we have special pricing for the emerging artist and emerging galleries.

thanks, lisa bebi

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late night with A. Hitler..........

i just finished watching this enlightening documentary on KPBS called "the rape of europa", named after a famous 1686 painting by giordano....
it is a strange but true story of how the greedy and maniacal mind of hitler and his friends worked. how hitler decided to purge countries like poland of not only "subclass humans" but also attempted to erase them from history by systematically destroying heritage monuments and art!

imagine that. 
i can comprehend (although despise the idea) the early catholics attempt at world domination by killing people then creating their own type of ideal parish by building monumental churches that both scare and awe townsfolk into belief. although horrible, this reasoning at least makes sense.

but who but hitler was not content with wiping out populations by killing?
but felt that the "sub human" race needed to be destroyed through destruction of her art too.


this emphases to me just how very important art is to culture and culture is her people; the definition of who they, the people, are is
so important that removing heritage and art is an unthinkable crime to humanity - a deed only someone as evil as hitler could fathom.
as has been said before, art is not only who you are, but what you are as a people. without art, the history and culture of a people is gone forever, unrecoverable and undefined.
sorry for getting so political on you--this KPBS show has me wound up.

our next show

it's gonna be "a really big shoooo..." ed sullivan


The third episode of N Art Magazine is a cornucopia of visual and conversational delights. We've taken the ordinary elements of the holiday table and found artists whose work reflects them. Join us as we visit with acclaimed sculptor Boban, who creates dynamic figures out of silver spoons, ceramic artist Jake Allee, mixed media artist (and guest co-host) Simon Loli, glass artists from the Escondido Municipal Gallery, Art as Authority blogger Kevin Freitas, new Gallery Walk artists and a few surprises. You can enjoy this sumptuous feast with no calories on KGTV, Channel 10, on Sunday, November 30 at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Lisa Bebi at (619) 916-9040.

super-sized me, supper

i wish i were awake enough right now to use my trusted sharpie marker to "fix" this painting of leonardo's. yes, i would a doodle of a couple of super-sized big macs with large fries and a gigantic diet coke, plus a few oreo-cookie shakes.
why? because merchandising culture and the arts is where it is at these days.
yep, in italy our beloved home of world respected art and culture has been in dire economic straits for some time now. In italy there have been government budget cuts that makes tending to the upkeep of these important sites nearly impossible. sadly, visitor ticket prices and sale increases only cover about 10% budget for heritage upkeep. 
So a new saviour (or should i say, new director of development of state museums and archaeological sites) has been appointed in the last few months. 
who? 
none other than the man who ran all the italian Macdonalds subsidiaries for the last 12 years.
yep, mario resea knows nothing about the arts or italian's cultural heritage, he admits, but he sure knows about merchandising and mega business and loans.........
italy passed a new law 15 years ago that allowed commercial sales in the hallowed grounds of museums, etc. , but no one has, up until now, taken the new laws for an exercise in stretching. stretching the art loving visitor's wallet. 
so, resea believes the world of art will thrive only if italy increases visitor consumption, i.e. merchandising. you might find when you next visit the Vatican that you will also be able to buy a mac-papal burger or a virgin mac-mary cocktail drink, and french friar fries.
even italy, the world's motherlode of art and culture, will fall helplessly into the arms of entreprenurial dictatorship - who will only want to use and exploit her.

Art Museum and fireworks!

 who

 doesn't love that combination?

this brand new museum just opened up on itsown island. guess where? did you say Doha, Qatar? then you were right.
the architect designer, I.M. Pei, at age 91!!!! (yay for seniors working!!!) designed more of a sculpture than an actual building. Pei decided to go with a more austere look in Qatar against the flashy, attention-grasping wealthy new development of the seafront corniche. Pei, hung out in the area, read up on the religion went to egypt and tunisia and other places of the middle east, looked at many artifacts and art that was to be housed in it to get a feel for the style of the building he wanted to create. he stated that in the end he decided upon a style which is both earnest and traditional. maybe because of his age, he felt a need to return to the simpler truer forms of the middle east.

interestingly, he had a condition about the design of the building, he wanted it to be on its own island so that it would not get trapped between glaring, modern buildings in the future. and so it is on its own island. 

so, good for you, old man, Pei!!!! i heard that yo-yo-ma performed at the opening yesterday.

exposed!

what i have been doing lately..........

wazup?

we have been a bit busy lately. 
we have just finished filming the 3rd episode which will air sunday, november 30 at 4 p.m. of N Art Magazine TV Show.
N Art Magazine is a show i have founded and of which i am the executive editor. it was my idea to have a TV show and published magazine (coming soon) that explores the arts in our region and beyond. since i am an artist, i have felt what many of my fellow artists have felt, basically under recognized nationally and internationally. i wanted our regional arts scene to be showcased and respected so that we, as artists, might feel that we don't necessarily need to go to another city like NY or LA to "make it". also, it is my intention to feature the emerging artist scene and the various genres of art in order to to educate and cultivate the attention of the general public. one thing that i am particularly proud of is the fact that on our show we examine the nationally raked artist along side the equally fascinating emerging artist. i hope to expand the mind of the public.

check out this clip that i just discovered tonight on someone's youtube of our last show. this clip focuses on the mind expanding stuff going on at UCSD's Digital Arts of CALIT2/CRCA Center for Research in Computing and the Arts----and beyond. looks like someone their department youtubed us with a clip. check it out and enjoy.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMiJw0aAuU



here is what they said: (there is a correction here, it was aired on ABC, not NBC)

http://life.calit2.net/archives/2008/11/digital-arts-of-calit2crca-fea.php

Calit2Life
Digital Arts of Calit2/CRCA featured on NBC (oops, ABC)
by Michael Toillion
N Art Magazine, a new program on NBC (error, ABC) in San Diego that documents the local arts scene, visited CALIT2 and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts recently. For a program that is mostly familiar with traditional art forms, touring the digital art laboratories at CALIT2 and CRCA proved to be quite an experience for N Art Magazine. The final video (seen below) aired on Sunday, October 26th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMiJw0aAuU


The video features Beatbox360, a 4K video art piece created by myself, Mike Toillion; Sanctuary, a percussion composition by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds; and Scalable City, a 3D multimedia video game.

art sales during the economic recession

As said by my friend, painter and colleague Robert Genn:

"The world have been through a relatively prolonged period of happy times. With loose money lying around, as there has been, irrational exuberance has prevailed and even sub-prime art has passed both critical and commercial muster. 

Now with bank credit drying up, home values heading south and the stock market tanking, the decorative art market will suffer along with the general economy. On the other hand, it's been my experience that in times of recession, collector and investment art can continue to thrive. 

Just as unpleasant regulations had to be brought into economies rife with greed and profligacy, artists, who have no creditable regulating body, must bring in more self-regulation. This may involve longer hours, better work habits, better processes and more attention to quality. This also ties in to fair dealing and realistic but progressive pricing to go with the better art. My guess is that many borderline galleries will go under during the next while--just as many inadequate or unprepared artists will look once more to other employment. 

Many years ago I had a solo show on the evening after a significant stock market crash. Fearing the worst, I showed up late only to find that the show had sold out. Fact is, when times are good people throw money at art, but when times are bad they turn to art as a possible life-enhancing investment. Funnily, it was a bunch of stock brokers who took home most of the art from that show. Funnily, I thought, people must need art more than other stuff.

Recessions are blessings. Historically, recessions and depressions have been times when "important" work gets made. Realistically, our financial outlay for equipment and art materials (unless your medium is gold) is relatively minor. In hard times artists need to get themselves as debt free as possible and invest in the joy of their vision. 

Best regards,

Robert"

PS: "Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change." (Gertrude Stein) "Live like a poor man with lots of money." (Pablo Picasso)

Esoterica: Do not let yourself be blindsided by xenophobic myopia. Artists may act locally but are of the world and need to be on the world's stage. Further, attitudes about art and collecting vary from country to country and even from city to city and town to town within countries. The operative word is "change." Both adversity and good times invite change. In our case it has to come from within. Q: "How many psychiatrists does it take to change a tire?" A: "Only one, but the tire really has to want to change."