tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75664251416389292672024-03-13T11:59:47.387-07:00Miscellany and ApocryphaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.comBlogger765125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-89426916107470510292016-05-12T19:02:00.003-07:002016-05-12T19:02:51.185-07:00Olympic GoldDid you know they used to have <a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/article/olympic-architects-forgotten-gold-medals-awarded-arts/" target="_blank">Olympic medals for artists</a>?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-53381304985478738042016-05-09T19:30:00.002-07:002016-05-09T19:30:34.530-07:00Grown-up punk rockersWant to be young and bad-ass forever? <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/07/never-mind-bus-pass-punks-look-back-wildest-days" target="_blank">Take a cue from this invest banker, barrister, and vicar</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-40700714562332818202016-05-09T19:26:00.004-07:002016-05-09T19:26:58.229-07:00The Cistern is finally going to open to the public!<a href="http://glasstire.com/2016/05/09/houstons-magical-cistern-opens-to-the-public-and-to-artists/" target="_blank">On May 13, to groups</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-15157064666071943862016-04-20T21:18:00.000-07:002016-04-20T21:18:25.549-07:00Paying AttentionI'd like to try all--ok, most--<a href="https://medium.com/re-form/how-to-pay-attention-4751adb53cb6#.h67o7cdu7" target="_blank">of these exercises</a>.<br />
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I've given the "Look really, really slowly" assignment to Art History students before, only for me it was 20 or 40 minutes, not three hours.<br />
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"Repeat your viewpoint" reminds me of some pivotal moments in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind-Up_Bird_Chronicle" target="_blank">The Wind-up Bird Chronicle</a>.<br />
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I think the one I'm going to try immediately is the "Misuse a tech tool" with the compass.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-54860425812200807962016-04-11T21:22:00.001-07:002016-04-11T21:22:39.706-07:00Panama Papers, Modigliani, and NazisI've been a bit confused about all the hubbub surrounding "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers" target="_blank">The Panama Papers</a>." Yes, the leaked documents has shown precisely which wealthy people have used precisely which off-shore tax havens, but it's certainly not news that tax havens exist and are used by wealthy people for a number of reasons. Two of the most popular tax havens are the state of Delaware and the City of London. You don't have to actually go off shore to go off-shore.<br />
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But anyway.<br />
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One interesting thing that has turned up is the ownership of a Modigliani painting allegedly looted by Nazis and possibly being reclaimed. If I'm reading <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35986035" target="_blank">the news reports</a> correctly, the Nahmad family has claimed that they do not own the painting in question, but that it is owned by a company called IAC. Only ow it's been leaked that IAC is owned, and has been owned for decades, by the Nahmad family.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-59561784814608759402016-04-11T21:10:00.002-07:002016-04-11T21:10:32.824-07:00Why not make art funny?<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/287835/darkly-absurd-gifs-of-famous-paintings/" target="_blank">These GIFs </a>make funny little cartoons out of a few of art's most somber pieces. Enjoy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-90668700187431464252016-04-06T18:15:00.000-07:002016-04-06T18:15:02.219-07:00A new painting from Rembrandt<a href="https://www.nextrembrandt.com/" target="_blank">The Next Rembrandt</a> is a project that used a lot of data and algorithms to make a very good, and original, Rembrandt painting. I have to say the product looks pretty good.<br />
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It's an interesting (and scary) project. Be warned, though: the video and project are basically an ad for ING and Microsoft.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-55616931064357701732016-04-04T19:38:00.001-07:002016-04-04T19:38:38.185-07:00GTA DeerI don't quite know how this all works, but an artist inserted a <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/286837/the-immortal-deer-an-artist-set-loose-in-grand-theft-auto/" target="_blank">wandering and unstoppable deer</a> into a famous video game. So, you know, yeah.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-11367565839709074722016-03-30T20:26:00.002-07:002016-03-30T20:26:38.500-07:00Art and politics1. A <a href="http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/March-2016/Can-We-Please-Get-Beyond-the-Building-the-Border-Wall-Boycott/" target="_blank">competition</a> in which architecture is influenced by politics.<br />
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2. A <a href="http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1363744/10-notable-times-art-influenced-politics" target="_blank">list</a> of times that politics were influenced by art.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-73798833648277057452016-03-29T15:57:00.000-07:002016-03-29T15:57:00.767-07:00Lost WaxI've seen (and drawn) plenty of vaguely helpful illustrations of how lost wax bronze casting works. But the <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/bronze-casting-step-by-step/" target="_blank">Israel Museum did it right and made a fun video</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-37132168785086914302016-03-29T15:54:00.000-07:002016-03-29T15:54:04.068-07:00I don't think these really count as secretsFor this year's Museum Week, museums around the world were <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/286553/art-institutions-share-secrets-to-kick-off-museumweek/" target="_blank">asked to post secrets</a>. Some of these are pretty cool, and I guess it would be unfair to ask institutions to tell their actual secrets.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-83785266836141050902016-03-22T19:43:00.001-07:002016-03-22T19:43:27.941-07:00Big sales at the art auctionNot Christie's or Sotheby's. <a href="http://glasstire.com/2016/03/21/clown-painting-sells-for-220000-at-houston-rodeo/" target="_blank">The Rodeo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-68042729055288801602016-03-21T21:00:00.002-07:002016-03-21T21:00:31.561-07:00Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One SeesI started reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Forgetting-Name-Thing-Sees/dp/0520256093" target="_blank">Lawrence Weschler's boo</a>k about the artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(artist)" target="_blank">Robert Irwin</a>, and it's one of those books I wish I had read years ago.<br />
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Originally published in 1982, the book has been expanded several times to almost double its original length. It's part biography and part critical history of Irwin, an artist I'd never heard of, even though <a href="http://www.getty.edu/visit/center/gardens.html" target="_blank">I've admired his work before</a>.<br />
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I can't wait to finish it and reconsider a giant portion of all the art I've ever considered.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-78154944482078657462016-03-10T15:18:00.000-08:002016-03-10T15:18:31.374-08:00What is statistics good for?Among other things, <a href="https://news.artnet.com/people/banksy-identity-revealed-scientists-441185" target="_blank">identifying Banksy</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-28179425651882305002016-03-01T20:08:00.001-08:002016-03-01T20:08:35.879-08:00VantablackYves Klein famously had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue" target="_blank">his own color</a>, and now <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/279243/anish-kapoor-gets-exclusive-rights-to-the-worlds-darkest-pigment/" target="_blank">Anish Kapoor does as well</a>. Kapoor has somehow got the exclusive rights to a high-tech nano-pigment called <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/57807/vantablack-material-so-dark-you-cant-see-it" target="_blank">Vantablack</a>. It absorbs more than 99.9% of light, and Kapoor is the only artist who can (legally) work with it.<br />
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What does an artist do with a virtual black hole? Let's find out.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-78907324925438246442016-02-29T18:37:00.002-08:002016-02-29T18:37:43.696-08:00Dion McGregorYears ago on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTRU_Rice_Radio" target="_blank">ktru</a> I heard a really weird story, involving a hot-air baloon, that went on for much too long. But then the DJ said it was from a <a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160219-the-dark-tales-of-the-worlds-most-epic-sleep-talker" target="_blank">recording of a man sleep-talking</a>. Now, thanks to BBC, I know who that man was and how that eery story ended up as part of my morning commute. The article has several of his recordings.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-90817930079561460452016-02-29T18:29:00.001-08:002016-02-29T18:29:30.408-08:00Opening, "Found: Ourselves"Carnegie students (and some others, but whatever) were featured in <a href="http://glasstire.com/2016/02/24/party-pics-february-19-at-blueorange-houston/" target="_blank">Glasstire</a> for the opening of <a href="http://glasstire.com/events/2016/02/09/found-our-selves/" target="_blank">Found: Ourselves</a>, curated by Carnegie's own Lynn Huynh. Way to go!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-76657488846563660892016-02-29T18:24:00.003-08:002016-02-29T18:24:54.384-08:00Don Justo's CathedralSpain's newest cathedral--though technically not a cathedral--has been under construction for 55 years. And almost all the construction has been <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/100-wonders-the-self-built-cathedral" target="_blank">completed by one man</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-52403007342029627352016-02-23T15:34:00.003-08:002016-02-23T15:34:25.381-08:00Watch Kandinsky at work!A <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/wassily_kandinsky_captured_in_the_act_of_creation_1926.html" target="_blank">short film</a> of an abstract picture being made in 1926.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-11991118044448534052016-02-21T15:01:00.000-08:002016-02-21T15:01:05.485-08:00Light show in the Temple of DendurSimilar to the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-them-turn-off-the-rothkos" target="_blank">projected-light restoration </a>of the Harvard Rothko Murals, a projection experiment at the Met is bringing back the <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/color-the-temple-light-display-metropolitan-museum-425522" target="_blank">original colors of their ancient Egyptian temple</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-13967629949418158142016-02-15T19:33:00.001-08:002016-02-15T19:33:30.504-08:00It turns out that even doctors can use artMed students at Brigham an Women's Hospital in Boston are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-medical-residents-learn-from-art-museums_us_56bb95aee4b0c3c5504fd6c5?" target="_blank">required to take a special art class</a> at the MFA Boston. Apparently empathy and emotional understanding are really important to doctors.<br />
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I think this is a wonderful move, as long as the students aren't there to try to diagnose the art subjects.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-45601745429324992212016-02-14T20:17:00.000-08:002016-02-14T20:17:46.762-08:00Looking for artistic real estate?You can <a href="http://www.handsomepropertiesinternational.com/listing/cms/villa-michelangelo/" target="_blank">buy Michelangelo's Tuscan villa </a>for around $8 million.<br />
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If you have more to spend, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/realestate/a-chateau-that-picasso-fell-for-in-the-south-of-france.html" target="_blank">this $10 million French chateaux includes murals by Picasso</a>.<br />
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But if you're on budget, you can <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/10981658?" target="_blank">rent a replica of Van Gogh's bedroom</a> in Arles from Airbnb for $10 per night. (It's part of an <a href="http://extras.artic.edu/van-gogh-bedrooms" target="_blank">exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago</a>)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-211628339262359182016-02-10T19:26:00.000-08:002016-02-10T19:26:03.824-08:00Starbucks is now selling art<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWl6TLvlFEk" target="_blank">No, really</a>. They have a gallery/coffeehouse space in Chelsea where they've started selling art from young artists, in the $1,000-$3000 range. I don't know if those prices are certified fair trade or not.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-76309802482909073412016-02-04T16:24:00.000-08:002016-02-10T19:26:36.984-08:00Utah may get an Official Work of ArtTo be fair, Utah has had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Jetty" target="_blank">The Spiral Jetty</a> in Utah for more than 40 years. But now Utah may <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/utah-spiral-jetty-state-work-of-art-419870" target="_blank">declare it their Official State Artwork</a>, becoming the first state to adopt an official work of art.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566425141638929267.post-68331203172317440242016-02-03T20:31:00.000-08:002016-02-03T20:31:00.464-08:00Intriguing MusiciansHere's a critic's <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/30/the-40-most-intriguing-musicians-of-2016.html" target="_blank">list of 40 musicians</a> to listen to in the near future: "they play by their own rules, and they grab your attention." I'm only familiar with three of them, so I've got some listening to do. Let me know if you try any of these out.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655319142798362462noreply@blogger.com0