“The Great Wave,” Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print from the early 1830s, may be the most famous artwork in Japanese history, and its popularity isn’t cresting anytime soon. By Ellen Gamerman | via Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2015 | Image: Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ (1830-31) Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The image of a wave towering over…
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looks matter: a century of iconic food packaging
Article by Tove Danovich | The Salt {NPR} | March 16, 2015 We take the packaging our food comes in for granted. Yet many of the boxes, bags and bottles that protect our edibles were once groundbreaking — both in their design and in how they changed our perception of what’s inside. Sometimes, packaging is so…
blood on the canvas: the greatest feuds in art history
In his exhibition You Were Shit in the 80s, artist Mackie imagines fictional feuds between great artists. He didn’t need to. Real art history is riddled with rivalries – from Leonardo’s attempted castration of Michelangelo’s David, to Picasso and Matisse’s love wars article by Jonathan Jones | via The Guardian | 12 March 2015 {featured image: Van Gogh…
the beautiful lost art of letter writing
via The Huffington Post | by Priscilla Frank | 03.13.2015 “Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations,” John Graham wrote to his wife Elinor in 1958. “In fact, it is its finest residue.” So begins Liza Kirwin’s More Than Words, a stunning collection of artist-made illustrated letters mined from the Smithsonian…
Van Gogh landscape to be shown for first time in 100 years
Experts expect Le Moulin d’Alphonse to fetch around $10m after research tying it directly to the artist via the records of his sister-in-law Johanna author Dayla Alberge | March 9, 2015 | via The Guardian A landscape by Vincent van Gogh is to be exhibited for the first time in more than 100 years following the…
the loss of faith made music mute
Oliver Rudland | STANDPOINT. | March 2015 It is a mystery to many people why so few contemporary classical composers seem capable of writing “a good tune”. Surely, given the number of students who pursue composition in our universities and conservatoires, and the hugely increased access which technologies such as music-notation software give to prospective composers, we…
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