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The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
An online exhibition created by The National Library of Ireland. When you enter the tour, you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats, one of Ireland’s towering poets, reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’
Posted in Art, Feature, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Technology Also tagged Literature, Poetry, Technology
Architecture Projection Art
Urban Screen building projection videos
Posted in Architecture, Art, Feature, Literature, Video Also tagged Architecture, Video
Understanding Duchamp
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp takes you on a journey through the art and ideas of the most influential artist of the 20th century. Animations and interactivity make ideas come alive with an immediacy that only multimedia can provide: you can spin the Bicycle Wheel, shake With Hidden Noise, and manipulate the elaborate allegorical automata of The Bride Stripped Bare by [...]
Posted in Art, Asides Also tagged animation, interactive
Cy Twombly at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
For the first time in many years – in some cases decades – visitors to these halls will be able to view works like Sunset (1957), Untitled (1962), exhibited in public for the first time ever, and Venus Anadiomene (1962), all from private European and American collections.
Posted in Architecture, Art Tagged Art
Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now.
The Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) presents Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now. This two-part exhibition, organized by the Austin Museum of Art, draws from AMOA’s permanent collection and local collections to explore how modern and contemporary artists merge art and life. It focuses on two distinct periods and areas: the start of modern art in the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe, and the late 20th and early 21st century from diverse cultures and art centers around the world.
“Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then+Now, comprised of rarely seen work drawn exclusively from local private collections and our own permanent collection, is one of the Museum’s most ambitious and broad-reaching exhibitions,” said Dana Friis-Hansen, AMOA Executive Director.
Hidden Van Gogh painting revealed by giant X-ray
It’s rare that new paintings by Old Masters are discovered. But that’s exactly what happened in the case of a recently uncovered work by Vincent Van Gogh. It was found at a museum in the Netherlands — but the painting wasn’t lost in some dusty corridor, it was hidden under the paint of another Van [...]
Posted in Art, Asides, Technology Also tagged Technology
Spinning Plates by Ian McWhinnie
This painting by Ian McWhinnie will serve as my status update for the month thus far.
Posted in Art, Reckon Also tagged Reckon, site updates
The Future of Making
Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade.
Posted in Anthropology, Art, Business, Design, History, Technology Also tagged crafts, creation, creativity, distribution, evolution
Displacements film installation
An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room’s center. After filming, the camera was replaced with a film loop projector and the entire contents of the room were spray-painted white.
The Telectroscope
Yesterday a giant drill bit broke through the surface in London near the Tower Bridge and a similar one appeared in Dumbo, Brooklyn near The Brooklyn Bridge. This was a sign that Paul St George is very close to completing work on an amazing project started by his great-grandfather Alexander Stanhope St George, The Telectroscope, [...]
The New York City Waterfalls
Public Art Fund presents Olafur Eliasson’s The New York City Waterfalls. via SwissMiss hat tip Quipsologies
Posted in Art, Asides Also tagged new york city, water, waterfalls
Yamamoto Masao Photography
Yamamoto is a freelance photographer known for his small photographs which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects.
Posted in Art, Photography Also tagged Photography, printmaking
Inverted Commas: Andy Warhol
Inverted Commas: Andy Warhol: Interesting Andy Warhol quote via Boing Boing and The Happiness Project: “Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just [...]
Posted in Art, Asides, Inverted Commas Also tagged Inverted Commas, quote, warhol
Exactly.
But there is something about messes that lead to great successes. I think it often has to do with teams that focus almost exclusively on the product and the market to the exclusion of everything else. They don’t build the rest of the infrastructure that it takes to be a stable well executing business and [...]
Posted in Asides Also tagged Business, Good Ideas
Hockney donates Bigger Trees near Warter to Tate
Renowned UK artist David Hockney has donated the biggest painting of his career to Tate Britain in London.
Getting Real Digest
Outside money is plan B The first priority of many startups is acquiring funding from investors. But remember, if you turn to outsiders for funding, you’ll have to answer to them too. Expectations are raised. Investors want their money back – and quickly. The sad fact is cashing in often begins to trump building a [...]
Eva’s Complex Mind
Surrealist handmade collages by Eva Eun-Sil Han
Posted in Art Also tagged awareness, Collage, consciousness, eva eun-sil han, semiotics, symbology 2 Comments
Hard-wired for the ups and downs
I’m here not to praise elitism but to understand it, not so much through a history of elites but by talking about elites in prehistory. Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like arranging themselves into hierarchies of skill, age, wealth, competence, experience, whatever. We can deny it if we want, but we all know [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, History, Politics Also tagged Anthropology, hierarchies, History, poverty, Science, Social Commentary, sociology, wealth
Small vs. Big
I always wanted the biggest box of crayons. It was always a really cool thing to have. But as I think about it now, someone that would have taught me how to color, to actually do something with 8 crayons, that could have changed my life. I might have moved from being a consumer to [...]
Adaptable by Gemma Smith
Adaptable (lemon/turquoise) by Gemma Smith
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