Lucinda Williams, where the spirit meets the bone
Then Williams cleared her throat and quoted her father’s poem from memory: “Have compassion for everyone you meet,/ even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,/ bad manners, or…
M. Anneneberg, Check, Checkmate art installation
M. Annenberg art installation
Conceived as a metaphor from the game of chess, the artwork, Check, Checkmate, takes the global warming debate beyond partisan politics. It examines the role American media plays in…
How to hear creations song
It's true, I hear the song creation sings when I am fully involved. Fully involved in painting, cooking, driving, playing games, mowing the lawn. it doesn't matter which noble undertaking…
are you an independent artist?
I started out independent but slowly I succumbed to the lure of international art stardom and began to see myself as an undiscovered genius. I patiently exposed myself to the…
The Problem with Big Art
the art itself doesn’t encourage thinking. Rather, it privileges emotional response — particularly the feeling of being impressed and awed — over understanding; in other words, passive consumption versus active.…
Worthwhile Art
what is worthwhile art? --The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it. You see I…
what is real?
With the arrest over the weekend of Art dealer Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz the noose is tightening for Pei-Shen Qian, the artist who created works in the style of some…
1000 true fans part 2
Besides deeply seated subconscious programming that I need to deal with there has been a long term love hate relationship with the gallery model. Yesterday, allowing myself to have a…
1000 true fans
Yesterday I devoted the day to marketing my art. I committed to one full day a week and it seems to be effective. I started out giving myself permission to…
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.…
Paintings | Alexander Yulish
Paintings | Alexander Yulish.http://alexanderyulish.s3.amazonaws.com/media/E02C6226-retouch1.jpg
This American Life; The Essay: Cubism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmh1n Talking about monumental visual art in a picture-free medium means, as The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik admits, that the odds of failure are quite high. How can you…
more rumi
THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome…
Rumi
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside!” – Rumi
creativity
A final clue came from “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention” (1996), in which Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what…
If the 1% stifles New York’s creative talent, I’m out of here | David Byrne | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Unlike Iceland, where the government let misbehaving banks fail and talented kids became less interested in leaping into the cesspool of finance, in New York there has been no public…
Berkeley College, Artists of Quality
Berkeley College: 255 Duffield Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201EXHIBITION DATES: October 1, 2013-December 27, 2013RECEIVING DATE: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:00am-2:00pmRECEPTION DATE: Saturday, October 5- 1:00pm-3:00pmREMOVAL DATE: December 26, 2013 11:00am-2:00pmExhibition…
Heartbeat
Two new studies regarding heartbeats and virtual worlds. Apparently the heartbeat has a powerful influence. Eindhoven University of Technology (2011, April 8). Personal touch: Hearing a heartbeat has the same…
Foresight
not realizing I was assimilating the photos of tree branches I painted this on the back of the Magik Shoe Collaborative piece
Step 2 A.R.T.S.
Step Two Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. http://www.artsanonymous.org/about-arts/twelve-steps/ Step Two Essay "Blocking out our Gifts and/or great parts of our life…
Upon entering the world
it is nearly without pleasure that i bring this news to you today. It has come to my attention that some of you aren't eating your pudding. How can you…
1 year ago
It's been a full year away from posting. A self imposed moratorium. I have reached the other side without soup or sorrow and am stronger because of it. I may…
Art Grows
The artist as gardener idea has been recently clarified by Brian Eno in this short talk at Serpentine Gallery. The concept is a basic difference in the way we see…
Discussion I like
comments on Generation Blank We are living in a time of intense nostalgia (in an already nostalgic culture). Everything is about the "remix." People feel comfortable in this brave…
Art as Commodity
This is an idea which has been acting as a backdrop for the virtual work and is fostered by a lack of interest in the trading of art for money.…
US Artists erect giant Dove sculpture in Tahrir Square
Our Augmented Reality 3d model now available in Tahrir Square in Cairo, accompanied by the text, “It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world…
Edward_ Winkleman
http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2011/01/oh-places-youll-go.htmlthe process vs product question as applied to older artists.See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anrst
Brice Marden at Matthew Marks (Contemporary Art Daily)
URL: http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2011/01/brice-marde...i get a nagging feeling that now he's just jerking off.See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/blxfu
we can question each other’s ideas without questioning each other’s love of country
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/us/politics/13obama-t... A way forward doesn't require denying the negative but focusing on the positive colors the discourse with respect and keeps the communication flowing. The loss of these wonderful…
Sometimes the Truth Doesn’t Set Them Free Its Just Another Burden
Watched the final episode of Treme Season 1. It's rare to see a reaction such as the character LaDonna had to further investigation of her brothers death in police custody.…
Can you read cursive letters?
http://www.twentyhood.com/2010/09/09/twentysomethings-cant-rea... I looked this up because some teachers were complaining about it recently. I guess I need to rethink some web design choices for the younger set. In the novel…
Browse images from gallery openings worldwide – artnet Magazine
URL: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/nathan/gallery-op...Finally the promise of the internet is fulfilled. Well, close but no cigar. Despite the obvious lack of scale and texture resulting from jpeg viewing, we are used to…
Browse images from gallery openings worldwide – artnet Magazine
URL: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/nathan/gallery-op...Finally the promise of the internet is fulfilledSee this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/blet4
Target the slackers
I am loving this new blog, (standard) INTERVIEW. It's refreshing to see questions such as this asked of artists. There are as many ways of working as there are artists…
Target the slackers
I am loving this new blog, (standard) INTERVIEW. It's refreshing to see questions such as this asked of artists. There are as many ways of working as there are artists…
remember you will not die
remember you will not die you didn't and you had plenty of chances back and forth over and over yet here you are
International Field of Voices
If you haven't had a chance to contribute your voice to the project we open simultaneously in six countries: Italy, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, and the USA this April 7th.…