Editorial views, thought and opinion pieces, and miscellaneous writings about art and culture.
Statistically art sales are down, but this is only relative to multi-million dollar art sales taking place day after day. Like art itself, the market is dependent on the opinion (or confidence) people have in it. When their confidence is weary, that is, when their perception is distorted, people buy less, and the market is [...]
What is art? Art, to me, is the appreciation of anything set aside from reality. Dictionary.com defines art as being something that is appealing or more than ordinary in significance. Art is the story of a culture. Whether the art topic is Michelangelo’s David or Colors by Joe Shmoe, it all symbolizes one-thing and that’s [...]
My color for 2007? A glorious red informed with brown, what the 1960s Sherwin-Williams catalog would have termed “Autumn Red.” Not that it signified for me the end of summer or the onset of winter. No, it is a glorious burnt red, older and more cautious than brilliant scarlet, richer and more alive than dull [...]
I am completely naked. And 15 total strangers are studying every inch of my exposed skin by the gray daylight streaming through the window.
Just when I think I can’t stand it anymore and if I don’t move my feet they’ll fall off, I realize I have no choice but to stay. If I move, I’m doomed. Worse than that, I’m bad at my job. And it’s my first day.
Art…a word with many meanings. For my purpose here, let me qualify this particular word to mean…creative or imaginative activity esp. the expressive arrangement of elements within a medium. I am speaking only of the finished product of the creative or imaginative activity. The art, in whatever form it was presented was meant to create [...]
Ships, a collection from Google Satellite by Jenny Odell
Photography by Oleg Dou, via El Dado del Arte
Generative art by Franz Thues and Dirk König, via Alex Wain
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