A project by Violence Prevention Coalition of Los Angeles shows us how art can be used to transform the culture of violence. As an artist, how can you use the talent to serve the community in small/big ways? Read the original article In Los Angeles, Transformng Guns Into Art by Zac Stone from GOOD.
Hi everyone, Zac Stone from GOOD introduces a fun web tool called Two of Us that can help you smile and be happier for a moment. Anyone keen to give it a try? Read the article here.
An interview with Michael Oatman by Peggy Nelson, published on HiLobrow. Michael Oatman is a maker whose work investigates a culture seemingly capering about the ambient plateau, yet reeling from the broken promises of progress. From the space race to a well-applianced domesticity, has the cone of uncertainty drained us of direction? Or is [...]
A review of David Hockney’s art in Technology Review in an article The Mind’s Eye by Martin Gayford. It talks about a project by Hockney called May 12th 2011 Rudston to Kilham Road 5 PM (2011), where the artist employed technology in an interesting way to create “moving collage” that extends our understanding of everyday [...]
In her essay “Stealing Norton: Do You Work at Your Art?“, L.L. Barkat confesses: My girl is a middle-schooler. I am not. She is working hard at poetry. I am not. So I steal away and work to change the situation. For L.L. Barkat, her motivation to work hard at her art was the dedication [...]
Over at Culture Making Nate Barksdale references an article from 3 Quarks Daily called Penne For Your Thought. By and large two central interests in my life–food and philosophy– have gone their separate ways. I propose in this essay to combine them by considering the question in aesthetics of whether cooking can be considered [...]
Check out the recent article The Times of India recently posted entitled Mumbai to Get Museum of Christian Art. “Mumbai, which has a sizeable Christian population and rich tradition of reliquious architecture, is set to get its first museum of Christian art.” …………………………………………………………………… “The museum will sensitize Christians and the general public to Christian art and culture.” [...]
The first stanza of W.M. Rivera’s “Blank Slate” is: I hate to see that evening Sun bite down one ruler for another, one America for the next, the race starts over, fresh forgetfulness. Blank slate. The first line immediately reminded me of William Gay’s short story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go [...]
The New York Times recently posted an article Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? “Is it me, or do we seem to have a problem with sculpture today?” ………………………………………………………… “It’s (sculpture) too literal, too direct, too steeped in religious ceremony and too complex for a historically amnesiac culture. We prefer the multicolored distractions of [...]
Megan DeVere shrewdly comments on the drudgery of modern air travel in her piece “Enjoy Your Flight.” Almost all of us have experienced passengers who pack their “suitcase to roughly 15% beyond capacity,” “wear lace-up shoes that are difficult to remove, “keep “small metal objects in pockets” and “bring several large, hard-back books in order [...]