“I realize the impossibility of capturing every single ordinary moment and that catching those real moments is innately challenging, but it is that struggle makes those stolen images so much more powerful.”
Check out this article via Metafilter about the Art of Science Competition at Princeton University Princeton’s 5th Annual Art of Science Exhibition “The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. These practices both involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what you perceive suddenly becomes more than the sum of its [...]
From the Wall Street Journal: Love Letter to Philadelphia. “I saw this as an opportunity to reclaim the space on these rooftops and reexamine graffiti,” said Mr. Powers, who grew up in West Philadelphia but now lives in New York. A former graffiti artist, Mr. Powers used the neighborhood as his illegal canvas as a [...]
From n+1: How artists must dress. Artists must first of all distinguish themselves from members of the adjacent professional classes typically present at art world events: dealers, critics, curators, and caterers. They must second of all take care not to look like artists. This double negation founds the generative logic of artists’ fashion. The relationship [...]
From the Wall Street Journal: The Internet As Art. Just as video and computer technology attracted pioneering artists in the 1960s and 1970s, the Internet today is inspiring artists to tinker with the possibilities and boundaries of the World Wide Web. What started as a playful and often tongue-in-cheek experimental venture by a few code-savvy [...]
From the Wall Street Journal: Obama is changing the art on the White House walls. Their choices also, inevitably, have political implications, and could serve as a savvy tool to drive the ongoing message of a more inclusive administration. The Clintons received political praise after they selected Simmie Knox, an African-American artist from Alabama, to [...]
From City Journal: Beauty and Desecration. At some time during the aftermath of modernism, beauty ceased to receive those tributes. Art increasingly aimed to disturb, subvert, or transgress moral certainties, and it was not beauty but originality-however achieved and at whatever moral cost-that won the prizes. Indeed, there arose a widespread suspicion of beauty as [...]
Simple steps to view and appreciate art with humility and understanding.
From the New York Times: Same Man, New Wire and a Secret Midtown Venue. The stealth preparations made the walk a compelling subject in the film “Man on Wire,” which won an Oscar for best documentary feature this year. While on stage at the ceremony, Mr. Petit balanced the Oscar statue on his nose; it [...]