Stunning geometric shapes appear in snow on frozen, isolated lakes {by Allyssia Alleyne, for CNN, January 6, 2015} CNN – If you frequent the pistes of the French Alps, you may see more than just skiers and snowmen scattered around the trails below. For the last 10 years, British artist Simon Beck has been decorating snow-covered…
the starry messenger
VAN GOGH | A Power Seething | by Julian Bell | Illustrated. 163 pp. New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $20. As a fledgling artist, Vincent van Gogh hired a carpenter to build a perspective frame: a wire-grid window. He used it to draw the Dutch countryside, his eyes darting between his pencil and the views through the frame….
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…
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