Computer nerd solves art mystery?
I don't even know how to sum this up, so I'm just going to link to the story and throw out a few keyweords to intrigue you: software engineer, Penn & Teller, movie, Vermeer, Hockney, centuries-old mystery, forgotten technology. Clink on the link, you're dying to.
The student becomes the teacher. Literally.
CVHS graduate and first-year teacher Rachel Vogel writes about taking a few of her students to the Menil. It's a great read, both because it's a great story and because Rachel is a great writer. (She was one of the 11 students in my first-ever Art History class. They really helped shape the class and what it's become. Thanks again, Rachel!)
Banksy follow-up
It seems that the social media are the only places left to see the new Banksy New York pieces, since the first two have already been painted over.
Banksy is in NYC!
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How does he keep his anonymity when he announces ahead of time that he's in town? People will surely be scouring the NYC area all night looking for him. Will he employ decoy artists? Walk around in his monkey mask to remain disguised? Or just allow himself and his crew to be photographed while he works, like he did in Israel?
The mimes are asking you to tone it down
In one of those "surely this is an April Fools prank" stories, Paris has a troupe of mimes that wander the nightlife sections of the city and encourage people to be less rowdy. Question of the week: what other behaviors would mimes be good at encouraging?
Lascaux coming to Houston
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The Houston Museum of Natural Science will have a big interactive and high-tech Lascaux Cave Painting exhibit beginning October 18. Ideally, you would have to follow a dog into a hole that drops you down into the exhibit, but I doubt they'll organize it that way.
Music review
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For only the second time ever (the first in 1960, conducted by Klein himself), Yves Klein's "Monotone-Silence Symphony" was performed last week in New York. It's exactly what the name describes: musicians playing a single note for 20 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of silence. This performance didn't include nude women dipped in paint and literally thrust up on a canvas while the music was being played, but it seems the performance was a hit anyway. I wish I could have been there. Klein has been a favorite of mine for a long time.
Sparkly Warhols
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The other weekend I went to a show called Warhol Out West. I wanted to see some big bright canvases (they also had a good collection of tiny Polaroids), but wasn't really expecting to see anything new. Even if you haven't seen all of his paintings, after a while you feel like you've got the basic ideas. But then I turned a corner and found a few pieces that were quite shocking. A number of the paintings (notably a big one with shoes and a slightly smaller one with a portrait of Georgia Okeefe) had diamond dust mixed into some of the ink, giving the works a literally shimmering appearance. I've never seen one of the sparkly Warhols before, and I'm so happy I paid the way-too-high fee for the show.
Glasstire's Fall Preview
Want to go see some art shows without travelling to New York or Venice or some other vaguely art-sy city? Check out Glasstire's Fall Preview of upcoming shows in Texas.
Secret Fore-Edge Paintings
We all agree that books are wonderful.
We all agree that paintings are fantastic.
And we all like hidden messages.
But where can we find all three brought together? Where?
Here.
We all agree that paintings are fantastic.
And we all like hidden messages.
But where can we find all three brought together? Where?
Here.
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