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Month: February 2012
Yarn I: It seems one of the primary artistic trends of the 20th century (with spillover, maybe the last two centuries) was the increased acceptance of sketches and raw, undeveloped ideas as legitimate “works of art” ripe for an audience. The beginning of the last millennium would not have indicated this, though– the market and…Continue readingFiguration to Abstraction, our evolution out of language
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Artist as negotiator
Dennis Adams, professor of art at The Cooper Union, has a way of really nailing down works’ gists. In reverse as well, he is able to begin with an idea, crystallize it into a concept of sufficient scale, and name an artist whose work X in year Y best exemplifies it. In a discussion about…Continue readingArtist as negotiator
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evan shinners. grateful dead cover
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The new warming principle
This may be half-cooked conjecture, due mostly to its scary simplicity, but it bears notice. To begin with, the reason our hemisphere is colder during winter months is not because the sun is further away than during summer (in fact, due to the ovular shape of Earth’s orbit around the sun, we may in fact…Continue readingThe new warming principle
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from Microcosmos
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from Invisible Towers
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A story, this time: I discovered very intimate evidence that our brains are always aware of the time– and not just by casts of a net or any such wide margins, but down to the very minute. And it is only exhaustively heightened by images. In this peculiar case it was an instance of realizing…Continue readingSubliminal 9-11, the curious explanation of why I don’t wear watches