arts
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Reversion, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Toward Tranquility in the Current Empire
Looking Back Almost twenty years ago, I began troubling the word peace. Like many of us, I had long imagined peace as the cessation of violence, the arrival of stillness, the mutual exhale after the fire. But something in the… Continue reading
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Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz
Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond… Continue reading
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Lost art of speaking to a mass audience
According to [John Armstrong, University of Melbourne] the way [the professionalization of the humanities] all got started was an accident of history that divorced the humanities from a mass audience. “They were set up without any concern for marketing because… Continue reading
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7 Must-Read Books on Education | Brain Pickings
Education is something we’re deeply passionate about, but the fact remains that today’s dominant formal education model is a broken system based on antiquated paradigms. While much has been said and written about education reform over the past couple of… Continue reading
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The Odd Habits and Curious Customs of Famous Writers | Brain Pickings
This should be a very interesting read. The article itself gives us a great glimpse at what the book offers. Famous authors are notorious for their daily routines — sometimes outrageous, usually obsessive, invariably peculiar. In Odd Type Writers: From… Continue reading
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Oscar Peterson Trio and Ben Webster – Come Sunday [1972] – YouTube
NDR Jazz Workshop “Funkhaus Hannover”, Germany – December 14, 1972 Ben Webster – Tenor Sax Oscar Peterson – Piano Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen – Bass Tony Inzalaco – Drums Related articles BEN WEBSTER: from Kansas City to Copenhagen (rocketgrants.org) Oscar Peterson… Continue reading
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Coffee and van Gogh
In honor of my new job as the Social Media barista at Denton’s own Shift Coffee, I am putting up here a gallery of images from the work of Vincent van Gogh. Enjoy with a cappuccino or an espresso! Continue reading
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Video Games Inspiration for the Dying Art Of Japanese Woodprinting
Whether Hyrule or the Mushroom Kingdom, we’re used to video game heroes saving their own respective pixel worlds. This is the story of how video game characters like Mario, Link, and Kirby helped save a “floating world” (literally translated): ukiyo-e,… Continue reading
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Henri Martin
Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (August 5, 1860 – November 12, 1943) was a renowned French impressionist painter. Born in Toulouse to a French cabinet maker and a mother of Italian descent, Martin successfully persuaded his father to permit him to become… Continue reading
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Amazing 19th-Century Illustrations of ‘The Divine Comedy’ – Flavorwire
Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy holds an important place in the pantheon of world literature. Countless artists have been inspired by Dante’s allegorical, visionary work, which describes the Italian poet’s journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Perhaps the best-known artist… Continue reading
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Autobiografia: Recluse of History | Saffronart Blog
New York: The exhibition, Autobiografia: Recluse of History, is an intriguing group show of artists from different eras. Simplistic and powerful, it stimulates one’s historical chord through classic drawings of soldiers during World War I, with titles such as ‘le commencement… Continue reading
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Alphonse Mucha
…Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was termed initially The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau (French for “new art”). Mucha’s works… Continue reading
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Gallery 17 August 2013
Write text here… Related articles Gallery for Christopher (keithwaynebrown.com) Maxfield Parrish (keithwaynebrown.com) Ernst Fuchs (keithwaynebrown.com) Art Talk: MoMA’s Mea Culpa to Hopper and O’Keefe (wnyc.org) In the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo opened an interactive exhibition (photovide.com) MoMA Plans Ileana Sonnabend Show… Continue reading
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And When You Lose Control: Drawing by Davit Yukhanyan
Faith is Torment | the Art and Design Blog puts up a gallery of great interest: A drawing of a goat made of hundreds of smaller drawings. Click the jump to examine sections of the drawing and see what parts make… Continue reading
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Contre temps | Vimeo
My good sister, Angela, posted this on her FB wall today. Appears that it is a student animation from France. Beautiful! Here is our graduation movie Contre temps, directed at Supinfocom Arles in 2012. We hope you will enjoy it!… Continue reading
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Acrylic Storm – Michelle Manly
Texas-based artist Michelle Manley explores the intensity of nature through dramatic acrylic paintings. In her Storm series, she uses earthy color palettes to create landscapes filled with dark clouds swirling together into distant and powerful storms. As the severe weather… Continue reading
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Art in London: Not ticking | The Economist
THE shadow of a giant second hand sweeps in silent arcs around a sundial’s shaft, patterning the floor. It lengthens, then reverses, crossing tracks with shorter stripes that represent the minute and the hour. In the industrial vault of London’s… Continue reading
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What’s Inside Play-Doh That Makes It Different — Wired – YouTube
Accept no substitutes because there is only one Play-Doh. Learn the magic formula inside that classic yellow tub. Hint: there’s more to it than flour and water. via What’s Inside Play-Doh That Makes It Different — Wired – YouTube. Continue reading
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