nc artblog

Mar 25

New Contributor

Happy to welcome Alana Wolf to the fold. Check out her piece on Duke’s CDS show: http://ncartblog.org/?p=336

Oct 20

Immigration and Issues

Matt Zigler on an interesting show at Flanders this month - figures into the recent discussions on immigration here in the South in particular: http://ncartblog.org/?p=3066

Feb 10

little things at Room 100

kinda digging the tiny bits that occupy William Harmon’s paintings over at Golden Belt this month: http://ncartblog.org/?p=2619

Sep 21

Back to School at the Bechtler

those mid-century abstractionists get me every time! (posted review of School of Paris at the Bechtler this a.m.)

Aug 6

Presence is Progress

Nice to see Presence is Progress in its gallery incarnation at Through This Lens in Durham. The show ends this weekend and though it doesn’t have quite the same snap as the street version of the performance oriented work, its documentary feel and subject matter does give one pause. I’m still sorting out the repercussions…

Aug 5

Check out this in-process pic of Emily Cash, Susan Parrish, and Lauren Van Hemert’s collaborative “Wonderland” installation at Artspace in Raleigh - a whole lot of mixed media going on!

(thanks to Lauren for passing on the pic)

portion of Amy White’s installation at the Chapel Hill Public Library

art for the literati

Posted a review of Amy White’s installation(s) at the Chapel Hill Public Library this evening. Made me rethink their lobby/atrium in a new way…

“Mr. Coatney estimated that posting links and notes to the Newsweek Twitter feed and Facebook page sent roughly 200,000 to 300,000 readers to Newsweek’s Web site each day. By comparison, Tumblr sent closer to 1,000.”

Ooph! Tough numbers in an positive write-up in the NYT about old media adopting Tumblr. So how did Coatney segue from his gig manning the Newsweek Tumblr into a gig as Tumblr’s “media evangelist” if his links to Newsweek content only drove 1,000 visitors to Newsweek.com? It’s a good question and one Coatney is going to be spending most of his days answering to the media outlets he evangelizes. I think Coatney will be able to make a good case, actually, about the need to build community, reach out to younger audiences, and expand the brand. (The NYT article is a good start!) But he certainly has a tough road ahead of him. I mean, all he has to do is convince these sites to abandon page views as their only metric for evaluating success or to put it another way, convince them that everything they think is wrong. Easy! (via jaketbrooks)

Ooof. Got our wires crossed in the Times reporting; comparisons are wrong. The Twitter/FB numbers are monthly; the Tumblr numbers are daily; for a straight comparison, should be 30,000 or so/month for Tumblr. That’s important because the level of engagement was much higher—with more than 1.2 million, Newsweek has 100x the numbers of followers on Twitter as it does on Tumblr, but was getting 10x more engagement from those Tumblr followers. That’s a significant number, I think.

(via markcoatney)

What does engaged mean?

(via leoncrawl)

(via paddyjohnson)

Aug 1

New Genres

posted short review of Flanders Gallery’s New Genre Pictures - some very dynamic work!