by admin | Nov 2, 2009 | Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
There is a wonderful series on Public Television called “ART:21” that I recently started watching (ah, the wonders of Hulu!). This particular series seeks an in-depth investigation into the why and wherefores of contemporary art of all kinds. A portion of...
by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
What would a reinterpretation of this very famous painting be like? How would one handle it in a post Duchampian world? This is the question I am puzzling over at this very moment. It’s both marvelously frivolous and frankly serious being such an event and...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
A month after the now infamous urinal by R. Mutt (Marcel Duchamp) was rejected by the exhibition he had submitted it to, a little magazine called The Blind Man, which was co-edited by Duchamp, defended Mr Mutt’s Fountain: “Whether Mr Mutt with his own...
by admin | Feb 28, 2007 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke I continue to struggle with the idea of production as an artist. My...
by admin | Feb 12, 2007 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
Last night I saw, for the first time, Paco de Lucia live in concert and I can tell you this was an amazing thing. First, his pure, raw energy is more amazing than just about any other music out there. Certainly this is one of the hall marks of flamenco, powerful,...
