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A tad less impermanence
Countless lifetimes after the art we last explored found its inspiration, we’re happy to see new art, via a modern medium, similarly inspired. Muralist Eric Skotnes, who paints with the intercession of aerosol accelerant, created this tableau and the timelapse, … Continue reading
The art of impermanence
Hat tip and thanks to Huffington Post’s Antonia Blumberg for today’s gorgeously illustrated exploration of the ephemeral art of Tibetan Buddhist sand paintings, or mandalas. In both Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the term mandala is layered with meaning. It can … Continue reading
Lies, damned lies, and viral videos
Could have seen this coming. In fact many of us did see it coming: Viral videos have become commodities, which welcomes lying and cheating into the clicks-into-cash equation. So no surprise, then, to see a dishonest follow-on to October’s NYC … Continue reading
Danish musicians can take the heat
Okay, yes—they look to be in pure agony. And before the last note fades, they drop their instruments and run for the exits like the pyretic victims they are. But judge not — they faced their crucible (almost literally so), … Continue reading
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Tagged capsaicin, Chili Klaus, Danish National Chamber Orchestra, insanity, madness, peppers
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Jian Ghomeshi – a predator in the spotlight
Short of a confession, in these vexing and vicious cases of “he said/she said,” the next best thing for determining guilt has to be a preponderance of evidence. And short of evidence—because the predator often takes care not to leave … Continue reading
RIP Tom Magliozzi (June 28, 1937 – Nov. 3, 2014)
Another regrettable loss – just over two years ago we said goodbye to Car Talk, a truly legendary National Public Radio property. Today, as reported by NPR, we sadly say goodbye to Tom Magliozzi, one of Car Talk’s irreplaceable Tappet … Continue reading
RIP Jack Bruce (May 14, 1943 – Oct. 25, 2014)
Fond farewell to a music legend—songwriter, vocalist, and one of the most influential bass players to ever stride the earth. Jack Bruce, certainly best known for his lead role in the trio that defined “supergroup” (pardon to those who mistakenly … Continue reading
Is the art world wracked by fraud?
Seems like a dirty little secret of the art world, one that’s probably been whispered about since art became a commodity and collections became investments, is breaking out into the open. Dealers, curators, and those investment-level collectors probably aren’t sanguine about … Continue reading
Tattoo new – culling sound from the ink
Staying with the tattoo theme for just a moment longer, the Deconstruction offers the sincerest of hat tips to Muscovite artist Dmitry Morozov (nom d’arte ::vtol::) for creating something brand new with what we’ve just this past week nominated as … Continue reading
The art, it gets under your skin
Since no one is really painting on cave walls anymore, we have to agree that there’s just one art form that has survived since primordial times, and is practiced just as fervently and reverentially today as it was then, as … Continue reading
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Da Vinci’s drafts
Nearly five hundred years after his death, Leonardo Da Vinci is still celebrated, and widely recognized, as one of the Western world’s most accomplished polymaths, inventors, and above all, artists. Even the most uninitiated can easily see why—a glance through … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Art history, lady with an ermine, leonardo da vinci, Pascal Cotte, what is culture?
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Revenge porn and the law of unintended consequences
The fact that revenge porn exists illustrates an entire tragicomic spectrum of unhappy, unintended con-sequences. More aptly, it demonstrates the lowest of the low: infantile exes who aim to shame, and the profit-blinded thugs who give them the platforms for doing … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, culture, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, revenge porn, unintended consequences
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Here’s to Scotland
By any objective standard this summer has been just fucking awful. There has been war and disease, barbarism, and more than our usual apportionment of inexplicable and inexcusable slaughter. Mere hours remain now until the equinox, but even the longer … Continue reading
Bring the Funk
There is music, and then there is funk. And along with all of funk’s myriad attractions (just try to sit still when George Clinton and P.Funk give it up) there is also this: funk is nothing if not inclusive. Or … Continue reading
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Tagged Alissia Benveniste, culture, funk, George Clinton, music, Parliament Funkadelic
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Katie Paterson and Margaret Atwood play the literary long game
Great literature might be timeless, but until now both of those superlatives—greatness and timelessness—have been unintended (and probably too-good-to-be-hoped-for) parts of the writing experience. Writers write, readers judge, and history ultimately decides. That’s how it’s always gone Leave it to … Continue reading
