http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/category/art.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.sacbee.com/roseville/story/918239.html http://tobacco.org/news/265156.html Two talented 14-year-olds have created art destined for high places. Jerreht Harris of Roseville and Janal Jansma of North Highlands crafted anti-smoking ads that will be featured on billboards overlooking busy roads and streets throughout greater Sacramento. Their separate designs were the top winners in the 15th annual anti-tobacco billboard design contest sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, it was announced last week. More than 8,300 students from Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties entered this year's contest, the goal of which is to persuade teens not to light up. Sacramento Bee esanchez@sacbee.com (Edgar Sanchez) Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/design/26chan.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=smoking&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://tobacco.org/news/264088.html Few things say serious art like a darkened gallery and multiple video screens, which makes Marian Goodman one of the most serious galleries in town. In side-by-side solo shows through Wednesday, it is screening new work by two prominent artists in the cinematic medium, Chantal Akerman and Eija-Liisa Ahtila. . . . Ms. Akerman bites off less and chews it more thoroughly. If anything, she is underreaching with “Women From Antwerp in November, 2007,” which appears on a band of five relatively small screens. Each shows one woman — occasionally, two or three — smoking. At times they are in a bar, but more often they are outside, at night. They walk along sidewalks, hang out on street corners, sit reading in parks, struggle with matches in the rain, weave home drunkenly, pass out or doze off. Smoke swirls. There are moments of tears and laughter. Best scene: in a bar one woman takes a cigarette from the mouth of another, uses it to light her own and puts it back. That everyone is trim, great-looking and exceptionally stylish makes “Women of Antwerp” seem like a compilation of smoking moments from other movies; practice shots by a fashion photographer who wants to direct; or overproduced, Europeanized film versions of Cindy Sherman’s early work. . . . Video art by Chantal Akerman and Eija Liisa Ahtila is on view through Wednesday at Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, Manhattan; (212) 977-7160. New York Times Netherlands Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2008/03/19/news/features/doc47dae4cb298a4937562566.txt http://tobacco.org/news/261548.html Within his lifetime, Stephen Yellowhawk has fought stereotypes about his Native American culture and heritage. When a recent art contest opened with a theme asking how the use of commercial tobacco had impacted the Lakota culture, traditions and values, it resonated with Yellowhawk's personal goal to keep youths healthy and tobacco-free. For the first-time art contestant, the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health's "The Oniyan Wakan" ("Sacred Breath") art contest offered an opportunity to display his skills at beadwork and the cultural knowledge he wanted to share. "It all fell together," he said. . . . According to Henderson, the tobacco industry has long targeted Native Americans as a subgroup for its products, using Native American images and names to market its products while also sponsoring tribal rodeos, athletic tournaments and powwows with money and handing out cartons of cigarettes. "It worked," she said of industry hooking its target. Commercial tobacco today is not what native tribes introduced to the colonists, she said. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are saturated with 4,000 different chemicals . . . Afraid of Lightning said it was a contradiction to his tribe's value system and a misconception that tobacco was part of the Lakota culture. "Tobacco doesn't grow around here, and it never has. What was traditionally used for tobacco was taken from the bark of the red willow tree. … It was never smoked for pleasure or addiction," he said. . . . "The tobacco companies are tricking us; cigarette smoking is not traditional in any way," he said. Rapid City Journal jomay.steen@rapidcityjournal.com (Jomay Steen, Journal staff ) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7281182.stm http://tobacco.org/news/260942.html A work of art consisting of pipes smoked by three key players in the Northern Ireland peace process has been auctioned for �6,500. The Pipes of Peace exhibit consists of pipes belonging to Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, ex-PUP leader David Ervine and former UVF leader Gusty Spence. The money will go to a cross-community fund set up in memory of Mr Ervine, who died last January. BBC Online Ireland UK-Northern Ireland Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.signmuseum.org/signsake/jdiaz.php http://tobacco.org/news/260314.html Artist Jane Diaz discovered one of her favorite painting subjects while looking for speakers for a Letterhead meet-LetterRip, which was held in 2002 in Atlanta, IL. Because the meet had a Route 66 theme, she though it would be great to have a Mail Pouch barn painter do a seminar that weekend, but she soon learned in her research that the last Mail Pouch painter, Harley Warrick of Belmont, OH, had passed away the spring. American Sign Museum tod@signmuseum.org Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.prwatch.org/node/6527 http://tobacco.org/news/259987.html Cigarette maker Altria/Philip Morris (PM) recently announced that it is moving its New York headquarters to Richmond, Virginia, and that it will end its corporate sponsorship of the arts in New York. Predictably, New York arts organizations are crying over the loss of cigarette dollars. These organizations sadly believe that their acceptance of PM dollars has been benign. In truth, these organizations have helped PM advance its credibility and legitimacy with policymakers, and have done tremendous harm to the country. . . . Arts sponsorship is nothing more than a branch of PM's "third party strategy," a massive, decades-long public relations plot to gain political support from diverse groups that under normal circumstances would never come to the aid of a tobacco company. The third party technique is described in a transcript of a 1984 PM Corporate Affairs World Conference, ...the whole question of getting third-party assistance and enlisting this whole third-party concept in our defense structure is to give us clout, to give us power, to give us credibility, to give us leverage, to give us access where we don't ordinarily have access ourselves... PR Watch editor@prwatch.org (Submitted by Anne Landman on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 17:59.) Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://insidetoronto.com/news/Scarborough/article/41368 http://tobacco.org/news/259643.html In the movies, cigarettes attach themselves to glamour and good looks. But at Scarborough's Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate, cigarettes have fangs and bushy eyebrows. Leering from students' murals in one of the halls, they look distinctly dodgy. Ontario Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best came to thank students of the Guildwood Parkway school for their anti-smoking work with T-DOT (Tobacco Don't Own Toronto) and other groups. Some made it clear to Best, elected last year as their MPP for the riding of Scarborough-Guildwood, that they want to see smoking disappear completely. Scarborough Mirror Canada Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.usnews.com/usnews/photography/daily/080102/bigpicture.php?image=1&s_cid=080102-1 http://tobacco.org/news/257645.html Customers smoke cigarettes at Cafe 203 in Lyon, France, where the owner has refused to comply with a new smoking ban. Instead, Christophe Cedat has put up protest art featuring overflowing ashtrays and cigarette butts. Cedat said the exhibit in his smoky cafe will bring the debate surrounding the new ban on smoking in bars and restaurants into the "artistic domain," which he described as "neutral ground." U.S. News & World Report France Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.utahskiandsnowboard.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=173 http://tobacco.org/news/256746.html The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is taking The TRUTH about tobacco to high-risk youth at Brighton Ski Resort with colorful urban art at The TRUTH Terrain Park. As part of a new sponsorship, The TRUTH is offering skiers and boarders discounted tickets and prizes through www.warriorsagainsttobacco.com. The TRUTH commissioned internationally-known graffiti artists to paint the terrain park's rails and wall ride with the theme "See through the smoke, don't be manipulated." The artwork depicts images of corporate devils seducing others to smoke, burning money to represent the high costs of smoking and the satisfaction that can come from saying "no" to tobacco. Utah Ski and Snowboard Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3006827.ece http://tobacco.org/news/256434.html Dismayed Times readers, suspecting the PC-motivated removal of the cigarette from the bronze sculpture of Oscar Wilde near Charing Cross in London -- A Conversation with Oscar Wilde -- wrote to our letters page. On Monday a Westminster councillor replied that, however frequently replaced, the cigarette kept being stolen by vandals; and the council could not agree to a request from the sculptor, Maggi Hambling, for CCTV to protect it. Times Of London UK Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/fashion/02poss.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://tobacco.org/news/256071.html Lawrence Weiner has made a career out of taking abstraction to new levels. . . . Then he decided to lose the end product and just let his titles do the talking, as printed words on walls. The results -- which can be imagined, if not seen, in Mr. Wiener's new retrospective at the Whitney Museum -- are like paint-by-numbers ideas viewers fill in for themselves. . . . As the Whitney show, “As Far as the Eye Can See,” makes clear, his art is for those who like to roll their own, so to speak. The artist does this literally, with Gauloises loose-leaf tobacco. He started smoking at 13 or 14, he said, as a boy in the South Bronx, and has been smoking ever since. Smoking’s charms are, appropriately, hard to capture; it is both smoke signal and smoke screen, both upper and downer. So Mr. Weiner is realistic and imaginative about its role in his life. “I don’t see smoking as a ritual,” he said. “It’s a habit. I wouldn’t say it’s an admirable one. New York Times Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071120/lf_nm_life/arts_latinamerica_dc_1 http://tobacco.org/news/255579.html A snow white sculpture of a voluptuous nude daintily holding a cigarette fetched $1.6 million at Christie's Latin American art auction on Monday, a record for a sculpture by Colombia's Fernando Botero. With 86 percent of 76 lots of Latin American art finding buyers, Christie's said the evening auction showed the resurgence of international interest for Latin American art. . . . The $1.6 million record high for his sculpture was for "Smoking Woman." The woman figure is lying on her stomach, propped up by crossed arms, unabashedly revealing her plump breasts and playfully kicking up a leg Reuters Owner:gschen@yahoo-inc.com (Walker Simon) Latin America Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/20/2007-10-20_east_side_cigarette_fire_kills_author_78-1.html http://tobacco.org/news/254109.html An elderly art collector and writer was killed in her upper East Side apartment Saturday when a fire erupted while she was smoking in bed. The blaze engulfed Marilyn Kaytor's third-floor apartment at 111 E. 79th St. shortly before 7 a.m., forcing neighbors out of their homes. . . . Kaytor, 78, wrote books on home entertaining and a history of the '21' Club. She lived alone and was reclusive, neighbors said. New York Daily News tmfuni@nydailynews.com (TANANGACHI MFUNI and CHRISTINA BOYLE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS) Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/arts/design/13grap.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://tobacco.org/news/253684.html The exhibition "Graphic Modernism From the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935" at the New York Public Library. Above, a display containing designs from journals and literary magazines. . . . The curators, S. A. Mansbach and Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, have pulled rare books, journals and ephemera from the library's Slavic and Baltic division. Tattered, date-stamped and marked with the names of immigrant readers, these materials show new and reconstituted countries embracing the aesthetics of Modern art and design (though not always the radical politics.) . . . Then as now, advertisers cashed in on the counterculture. The cigarette rolling-paper company Modiano established relationships with Hungarian artists, publishing a multivolume survey of its favorites. On the cover of Volume 4, created by Janos Tabor, the letter O has been enlarged to accommodate the figure of a smoking man. As a suavely commercial use of Modernist design, it stands out in this literary context. New York Times Hungary Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/business/media/08altria.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin http://tobacco.org/news/253491.html For four decades, as New York’s arts scene flourished, the most reliable source of corporate funds for the city’s dance companies, theaters and art museums was the Philip Morris Companies, maker of the world’s most popular cigarette. At first, some arts groups hesitated to take funds from a tobacco company. But most of them got over it, and now more than 200 organizations in New York, including many known for experimental work, receive a total of about $7 million every year from the company known for the last few years as the Altria Group. That money is about to go away as Altria prepares to move its headquarters out of New York because of a corporate reorganization of its tobacco business. The city's arts world is bracing for the money to run out. Arts groups as varied as the Urban Bush Women in Brooklyn and the Dance Theater Workshop in Manhattan are hustling to find other companies, hedge funds or real estate developers to replace Altria's grants. . . . Nationally, Altria ranked 11th in corporate giving last year with about $200 million in cash and in-kind donations, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Besides plowing millions into the arts across the country, Altria has been a major contributor to domestic violence shelters, hunger programs and disaster relief. New York Times Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT