his pain, the audience’s pleasure

Woody Allen’s 1960s stand-up character tapped into a personal neurosis. {The Wall Street Journal, written by Raymond Siller, Jan. 26, 2015; featured image via Time.com} After four decades of making movies for the large screen, Woody Allen has struck a deal with Amazon, announced recently, to write and direct a half-hour comedy series for its Prime Instant…

unfinished work :: gustav klimt

The Huffington Post | By Katherine Brooks | Posted: 01/27/2015 Some of the world’s most famous artworks are nomadic. They travel from one institution to another, borrowed and lent across museums so that art admirers in continents too far to touch can view them. They are gently packaged and shipped overseas, ushered into temporary homes by…

theories of both time and space

MetaForms and MetaNudes etcetera, by author JD SAGE, was written as an art piece to document and address the use of transformations, numbers, symbols and the element of time in art. AUDIENCE Educated laypersons interested in art history, the application of mathematics to art and how the arts and sciences interface. Computer artists. Scientists and mathematicians with an…

can art still shock?

Is Grayson Perry right – can we no longer be outraged by art and literature? From Manet’s Olympia to Pussy Riot and Houellebecq, Adam Thirlwell presents a short history of shock {Adam Thirlwell, 23 January 2015, The Guardian; featured image: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917).Photograph: Alfred Stieglitz/AP} For a long time, I’ve been nostalgic for the era of…

radiography of the matter. herman kolgen + the sound perception

{article by Enrico Pitozzi via Digicult, featured image Herman Kolgen – Inject (2010) – Photo by Herman Kolgen} Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, works presented as installations, performances, sound…

raphael’s small cowper madonna :: worcester art museum

{article and image via ART Daily, posted 26 January 2015} WORCESTER, MASS. – The loan of Raphael’s Small Cowper Madonna from Washington’s National Gallery of Art from January 24 through September 27, 2015, provides a rare opportunity to study our own Northbrook Madonna and perhaps uncover the mystery of who painted it. Here Jon L. Seydl,…