“I am a magnet to the strong, powerful poses because I wish to be a magnet to a strong, powerful life.” -Kira Marshall-Mckelvey, “A Yogic Journey” Using Kira’s wonderful description of yoga as a metaphor for art, let’s ask the question: Is your art a projection of who you want to be? Or, should your [...]
The High Line Park in New York City (with its new sections opening just a week ago) is a prime example of constructing a built environment that creatively combines both aesthetic and functional purposes. By converting a pre-existing railroad line into a much needed green-space, the High Line also has exhibition space for public art [...]
From GOOD article When Urban Planning and Obesity Collide by Peter Smith “Are cities making us fat? After all, research has linked urban sprawl, a car-dependent culture, and even the absence of a sidewalk in front of homes to neighborhoods full of people with higher body mass indexes. “As the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Risa [...]
From GOOD article The Google Teacher Academy Helps Teachers Bring Tech Innovations Into the Classroom by Liz Dwyer “Technology companies are always coming up with new apps or hardware, but it takes way too long for some of the really useful innovations to trickle down to classrooms. Part of the problem is that teachers aren’t [...]
From Artforum International Magazine article Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and Public School Announce Opening of Center The Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and Public School New York are working together to create a new arts and culture center in the Greenpoint, Brooklyn on 155 Freeman St. The new center will be called 155 Freeman. 155 Freeman [...]
When Art Plays Church from Matthew Milliner at First Things… “What are we to make of the growing ubiquity of church references in the world of art? Does this confirm Dan Siedell’s charitable suggestion that contemporary art can serve as an altar to an unknown God? Or does it buttress Sarah Thorton’s thesis that art [...]
From the Comment Magazine article On Discipline by Carey Wallace… “The art world is full of talk: gossip, politics, and a smattering of actual ideas. But the question of artistic discipline, the central problem of a working artist’s life, is almost taboo, perhaps because the answers are at once so obvious and so daunting. Tellingly, [...]
The irrational is essential. Save for those atop the food chain, being a musician anywhere means hustlin’ for life, with little job security or even business model. I suspect that after a few years of making a living as an average musician, you realize that your dreams really are your anchors. Clark: “You have to [...]
From William Writes About the World Around Him: “When we’re told stories of the great modern stylistic changes in Western art—representational to abstract, tonal to dissonant, formal to free verse—we always hear about photography’s effect on visual art and we sometimes hear about the effects of recording and amplification on music. Maybe there’s a story [...]
Published at Public Discourse, Raymond Hain addresses the idea of ”new urbanism” in his article Building Virtue. “The heart of “new urbanism,” is the claim that human beings are better off if they can perform their daily activities without the necessity and complexity of artificial transportation.” “My first argument is the following: We need others in [...]