Through the Virtual Looking Glass
I am working on a project which is kind of snowballing lately and was wondering if anyone knows a gallery that wants to get in on this. I have pasted…
My Niece fights sleep
My niece fights sleep. As if she were involved in a fantastic story where to fall asleep would herald the beginning of the changes. She does eventually sleep, she does…
Politics
* Carol Ann Duffy * The Guardian, Saturday 13 June 2009 How it makes of your face a stone that aches to weep, of your heart a fist, clenched or…
Aequitas June 2009
Social media has drawn together a group of international artists to New York for Aequitas, an exhibit of art based on childhood experiences. Artspace OSA in New York City and…
The passion for dumbness
Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One. Whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambitions to stir things up. I just thought mainstream…
cooked goose?
Interesting post at NPIRL. I will provide a link to the article along with some of the key points for me. (I need to separate them from the text to…
Story of Stuff
Recommended viewing The story of stuff Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals,…
“Life is a Bowl of…” Multi-Artist Collaborative Exhibition at Caerleon Isle
Runs through Sunday, January 11, 2008 Location: Caerleon Isle http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caerleon%20Isle/80/221/2527 "Life is a Bowl of..." is a multi-artist collaborative conceptual art exhibition featuring a wide array of sculptural art created…
Theatre of Cruelty
The Theatre of Cruelty is a concept in Antonin Artaud's book The Theatre and its Double. “Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is…
Virtual Art
Magazine électronique du CIAC Why Art in Virtual Worlds? e-Happenings, Relational Milieux & "Second Sculpture" by Patrick Lichty (in English) I keep returning to this article and mining its bibliography. …
The Face of Innocence
The face of innocence, the aspect acted on. It is this face that smiles and charms and even seems to love. It searches for companions and it looks, at times…
making a clear choice for fear
oops I did it again woke up within a clear choice for fear cant seem to shake it either this weekend i went to the supermarket and in one instant…
Choose Again
I need to be reminded I can choose again. Love or fear, peace or anger, right or happy, awake or asleep. I am not a victim of circumstance, birth, or…
Why do you show your art?
Why do you show your art? That's one of the questions we are asking in our interviews for the ASCA film. We have gotten a few pretty standard replies and…
Is creativity somehow related with meditation?
I was sent this the other day. What is objective art? Is creativity somehow related with meditation? Osho: Art can be divided into two parts. Ninety-nine percent of art is…
Hafiz from The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish
Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul Break into applause. Art is, at last, the…
Live Art in Baghdad
International / Middle East With Fixtures of War as Their Canvas, Muralists Add Beauty to Baghdad By STEPHEN FARRELL Published: August 11, 2007 The city of Baghdad has hired two…
Forgive Me
I decided to photograph folk holding a sign which said simply “Forgive Me”. Upon viewing the photographs I could choose to practice releasing my ideas about that person and maybe…
yes but how does it look small?
The launch of Ebayaday, where art is sold online, cannot replace the supremacy of real things in real time and space. So says Ana Finel Honigman as she reveals what…
Fleshsuit and Crippling Backstory
I woke up this morning with a flesh suit and a crippling back story. I know you can identify because you have a flesh suit too but a crippling backstory?…
Soth on Art Chicago
I was quickly brought back down to earth after visiting Art Chicago. As usual, the toxic mix of money and decontextualized art was nearly devastating. For the record, I think…
If I capture art in my phone is that enough?
Easter week at the Met was a mob scene. I found myself trying to imagine the least popular areas to get away from the crowds but i wasn’t passing up…
content vs. form
What if you were the greatest artist and no one paid any attention. It's an old story with a new twist as an internationally acclaimed virtuoso performs in the subway…
no writing
no writing just painting [youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMiDLHzjsc]
How do I get a gallery?
Great post and discussion over at Edward Winkleman. One More Time, With Feeling (seriously)
an exuberant dialogue between drawing and music
Nice article about William Kentridge and The Magic Flute in the Times today. Inspiring use of mediums and this altered book thing keeps popping in to my awareness. What is…