Lana Norris is a recent graduate of the Moody Bible Institute, where she double majored in Piano Performance and Theology. Originally from the Chicagoland area, she moved as soon as possible to New York City. She is spending a year gaining experience as a collaborative pianist and preparing for graduate school; she is pleased to be working with IAM in curating content for artists pursuing thoughtful and communally affective creation. Lana is currently enjoying walking her lush neighborhood of Washington Heights and mastering the NYC subway system.
When you hear “Detroit”, what images pop into your head? dETROITfUNK is a photo blog that is creating an ongoing photographic archive of Detroit and its surrounding areas. After browsing their archives, Detroit becomes a place again, full of beauty, seasons, and history. More at dETROITfUNK.
Treehouse + indoor?
July 29th was the international debut of the all-new BMW i3 electric car. While clearly part of the BMW brand, BMW Group’s lead designer Adrian van Hooydonk talks about the new fusion of design and eco-awareness that they hope to bring to the automobile industry. “The design or the shape of the thing becomes the […]
Photographer Jakob Wagner specializes in wide-angle and aerial photographs, working both commercially and privately. Based in Dusseldorf, he travels the world and uses both his flights and destinations as an opportunity for his craft. The images below should whet your appetite to lose yourself in his website. Initial discovery via COLOSSAL.
It may or may not have been lunchtime when I discovered this treat.
Artists create not only for the sheer joy of the creative act, but also to meet the challenge it inevitably entails—to communicate and articulate an aspect of reality that is best heard, shown, or experienced. In this way, the artist gives form to the intangible dimensions of humanity. In viewing art, one is given the […]
RUMINATE Magazine 2013 Kalos Art Prize
RUMINATE Magazine is currently accepting entries for their 2013 Kalos Foundation Visual Art Prize, and you’re invited to enter. If you haven’t read RUMINATE and would like to get a better feel for the type of visual artwork that they publish, you can order a copy of last winter’s Issue 22: Up in the Air featuring […]
Art and Resistance in Istanbul
The relationship between Turkey and its public spaces has recently been personal, political, and dramatic. The Mural-Istanbul Festival, held in Kadıköy, Turkey, continues exploring this relationship. The first of its kind, the festival presents four of the world’s leading street artists supporting the Turkish in their dreams by creating vibrant and attractive points in the […]
From One Of Our Own: A Novel About Willful Death And Redemption
A Chair Between The Rails, the latest novel from The Curator’s own George Anderson, takes the concept of willful death and works it into something almost transcendent. The book will launch on November 1, 2013. An Indiegogo campaign, running now through July 31st, will fund its publication. Anderson, who publishes fiction under the […]
VERY SEMI-SERIOUS is a documentary six-years-in-the-making about the legends, hopefuls, and culture behind the iconic New Yorker cartoons. Its unprecedented access to the world of cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, and the private studios of acclaimed cartoonists pieces together “an offbeat meditation on humor, art and the genius of the single panel.” Leah Wolchok, director/producer, says […]
Seasonal comparisons, human faces, and melting apocalyptic images are all ways artists and developers are using Google Maps and Google Earth.
“The streets are the veins of a city. They gather, transport and transform our daily experiences and interactions. We can read a city by its streets, the same as we can read a sample of blood from a body.”
This recent fantastical work of Seoung Won Won captured my imagination. These landscapes, part of “My Age of Seven”, are legendary and surreal. Isn’t this childhood? You’re shorter than everything around you; then you grow up, and the act of remembering childhood becomes surreal. Certain moments from the mists become signposts and harbingers. JUE Festival comments: […]
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