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Sharkforum Podcast 2: Art Academy Liechtenstein Reviews Exhibition in Art Museum Liechtenstein

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on February 22, 2009 11:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sharkforum Podcast 2: Art Academy Liechtenstein Reviews Exhibition in Art Museum Liechtenstein

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A short review of the exhibition "Knocking on Heaven's Door" at the Art Museum of Liechtenstein by the Introductory Art History class of the Art Academy of Liechtenstein, Students of Mark Staff Brandl. Only 14 Minutes!

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Brandl Art "Inadvertently" Stolen from Museum

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Mark Staff Brandl

on February 8, 2009 5:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (11)

No Shit. A painting installation disappears in an opening in Colorado Museum. 26 of 31 paintings taken by visitors.

The cat is out of the bag, they have gone to the press, so now I can discuss and indeed complain about the events.

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Brandl Exhibition in Switzerland

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Mark Staff Brandl

on February 7, 2009 6:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Press release from the gallery:

The gallery "Am Landsgemeindeplatz" in Trogen, Switzerland is exhibiting the art of renowned artist Mark Staff Brandl. In the show, titled "Prelude," the paintings and sequential drawings displayed are a part of his PhD dissertation, currently in progress.

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Chicago Comic Artist Ashley Woods on TV

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Mark Staff Brandl

on February 1, 2009 1:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the Artbeat on Chicago Tonight, They talk to and about the up-and-coming, local comic book artist whose work has taken her around the world. Christian Farr goes one-on-one with artist Ashley Woods finds out what makes her unique in her industry.

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Sharkforum Introduces Its Podcast!

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Mark Staff Brandl

on January 30, 2009 10:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (11)

This is the first podcast by Sharkforum! Wesley Kimler, "The Shark," and Mark Staff Brandl, "The EuroShark," introduce their intentions in a short 33 minute discussion. Skype discussions, rants, Shark attacks, reviews and more will follow.

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James Kalm: Leon Golub at Ronald Feldman

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Mark Staff Brandl

on January 29, 2009 11:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

James Kalm rolls down to Soho to catch the tail end of the exhibition of one of Americas great post war figurative artists. Leon Golub, (1922-2004) presents us, in these late paintings, with a mingling of his mastery of representation and a heightened use of abstracted space. These massive unstretched canvases focus on scenes recalling the brutality of political and social strife, but Golub nevertheless maintains the legacy of classical painting and brings the influences of Titian and Goya into a contemporary context.

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President Barack Obama and Michelle dance as First Couple

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Mark Staff Brandl

on January 21, 2009 6:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Change Comes to Washington, How About the Artworld Now?

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Mark Staff Brandl

on January 21, 2009 6:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tom Tressor says on HuffPo, "The city that gave the United States a leader who called for change is seething with citizen anger over a laundry list of corruption, cronyism and crooked deals."

Isn't that also true of the Chicago artworld, and indeed the PoMo artworld in general now? How about using our new-found desire for change in our own backyard(s)? Regime change here now.

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"science et cité" festival: "what would you invent to save the world"?

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Mark Staff Brandl

on January 18, 2009 6:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I was invited by ReneeMcGrath-Abazovic to make a contribution to a project by the Visual Communication Department at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. At the moment, they are working on a project for the "science et cité" festival that takes place in 5 towns in Switzerland in order to bring science and society closer to each other.

They asked for my answer to the question, "what would you invent to save the world" or "what should science invent to save the world".

This is my answer.

What would I invent? A new self-reliant attitude in human thought.

Science and research in general can do many things to help the world. Some of society's greatest successes in this direction have been in medicine, health care and especially surgery. Logical analysis alone is important ...

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