Through the Mind Hacks blog, I’ve learned about a group of very interesting painters, a group of thirteen talented individuals who just happen to share the same body. Kim Noble has what is, perhaps, the least understood of psychological conditions, Dissociative Identity Disorder, more commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Her story is very inspiring: [...]
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“Feet First” (“Zuerst die Füße”) is a 1990 work by artist Martin Kippenberger, which has been making the news because of how much it’s pissed off the Catholics: “Surely this is not a work of art but a blashphemy and a disgusting piece of trash that upsets many people,” [Franz] Pahl told Reuters by telephone. [...]
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So I’ve been neglecting to follow all the artsy blogs I used to follow. Shame on me, maybe, but it’s just another part of the encompassing art ennui. Thank goodness for The Smart Set for having enough variety to keep me coming back, because otherwise I would’ve missed all the entertaining critical fallout of the [...]
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Where Art Meets Science Geekery: Although Einstein achieved an unprecedented degree of recognizability amongst the general public for a scientist, I don’t believe his theories became instantly well-known to the average, non-technically-trained individual, but at least among the intelligentsia, including the art set, his ideas made some major waves. Still his most well-known work, Dali’s [...]
Are you listening, Right Said Fred? (Holy crap, they’re still around, even?) I’ve been saving these up for a while now, so these are hardly recent, but here are some artsy things I’ve looked at recently: Neurophilosophy has a small post about Monet’s ongoing vision troubles: In 1923, Monet finally agreed to have the cataract [...]
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Here are a few of my recent arts-related readings: The Onion reports: Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not: The fact that the web page continually reverts to a “normal” state, observers say, is either evidence that ongoing vandalization is being deleted through vigilant updating, or a deliberate statement [...]
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Here are more of my recent internet findings—posted to distract you while I come up with something original… First up, I give you 52 Influential Photographs “that shaped a technology, an art form, and the world.” The author’s use of the number in the post title at first misled me to believe that this was [...]
Marie Internette: Let Them Eat Links!
Posted: 27th July 2007 by Jonathan in Link RodeoTags: Collage, Link Rodeo
I’m going to copycat some of my favorite websites and have a link rodeo where I can list some of the things I’ve been reading lately—I’ll try to stick to artsy/pretentious things but I make no guarantees. Do artists and non-artists use their eyes the same way? Do they look at objects, scenes, or artworks [...]