Verse
February 26, 2010
A poetic photo essay featuring photographer Claire Burge.
Archive for the ‘Visual Art’ Category
In Defense of Quatchi
February 12, 2010
Quatchi, Miga, Sumi, and Mukmuk – you’ll be seeing a lot of them for the next few weeks. A Vancouver native clues us in.
Project 365 | 2009
January 29, 2010
I saw what’s beautiful in my life – the simple, ordinary, lovely things I have that have sustained me through this year’s ups and downs.
The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius
January 29, 2010
Fine art is a recent category midwifed by the Renaissance humanists, reared by Enlightenment philosophers, and now, in the 21st century, it has grown old beyond its years and has forgotten its own nature.
Albert Hastings and Other Strangers
January 22, 2010
Photographs of our possessions and domestic patterns can be portraits, just like the photographs of our faces.
Paper Gives Peace
January 8, 2010
Neo craft is an embodied art that slows us down and grounds us in what is.
Art in the Time of Holocaust
January 1, 2010
During the Holocaust, art was created because the act of creating is essential to what it means to be human.
Woodcuts in a Time of Destitution
December 4, 2009
By being traditional without being a quietist, and by being contemporary without being Avant-Garde, Grieshaber acts out an answer to the artist’s ethical problem of history.
Out of the Classroom,
Into the Museum
July 24, 2009
Like most Americans, I used to go to museums mostly for class field trips. This type of museum-going tends to be more a social experience in which the group tries to see the greatest number of pieces, limited only by time and physical exhaustion. By contrast, yesterday was about the art-about seeing it and looking at it, and learning to receive it.