New research finds neural changes not only reflecting increased technical capacities, but also enhanced creativity. Article by Tom Jacobs | February 11, 2015 | Pacific Standard Mag Are artists born, or made? At the end of Woody Allen’s great comedy Bullets Over Broadway, the John Cusack character concludes that, in spite of his desire and effort,…
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the magic in twilight
‘Water and Shadow’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts engenders a renewed appreciation for the emotional range printmakers can achieve. article by LEE LAWRENCE | via Wall Street Journal Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Through March 29 An island silhouetted in the moonlight, yellow grasses drying…
Picasso’s handyman accused of stealing £50m art hoarde
BBC News | February 10, 2015 {featured image via The Red List} Pablo Picasso’s former electrician and his wife go on trial today in Paris, accused of having stolen 271 pieces of the artist’s work. The cache includes lithographs, portraits, a watercolour and sketches created between 1900 and 1932. Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec say…
Here’s How Japan Marketed Its Sprawling Red-Light District Hundreds Of Years Ago
Article by Mallika Rao | The Huffington Post Hosoda Eishi (1756–1829) Contest of Passion in the Four Seasons (Shiki kyo-en zu), late 1790s–early 1800s; one of a set of four hanging scrolls; ink, colour and gold on silk, Michael Fornitz collection. It was a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the madams and pimps…
when growing an ear on your arm is art
TIME Magazine | article by Arthur I. Miller | Zocalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare | February 3, 2015 Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. Leonardo da Vinci made no distinction between art and science—and the two fields are converging again In 2007, the Australian performance artist Stelarc…
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….
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