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The new creators
The birth of digital interconnectivity brought with it an intrinsic challenge: Would our participation in the global conversation be active, or passive? And the answer came almost at once, because the digital revolution determined, definitively, that content is king. Content … Continue reading
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Tagged content creation, Mark Smith, New media, what is culture?, Youtube
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Past masterpieces, new perspectives
This is the second time we’ve seen this, so we’ll go ahead and call it a trend. Modern digital artists are revisiting the canvases of painters departed, lending dimensionality to their works. When last we checked in Picasso’s haunting “Guernica” … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d art, Art, Budavár Repossession, Guernica, Gyula Benczúr, Picasso, what is culture?, Zsolt Ekho Farkas
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Join the culture cadre
The United States is one of the few modern societies that, from the top, generally ignores most of its internal cultural development, and ruthlessly politicizes the rest. We haven’t been verging on cultural wasteland-edness for generations on accident—it’s imprinted on … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, culture, Glenn Beck, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, what is culture?
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AntHill Art
I have no words for how cool I think Anthill Art is. And animal lover I may be, these are nonetheless some creatures that are a creepy-crawly bane of my existence. So if a few colonies are wiped out in … Continue reading
Arts and culture as economic profit centers
Some might have doubted whether the economic value of the creative arts could ever be quantified. Many others probably preferred that they wouldn’t be. Arts and culture are ethereal; economics are the opposite of that. There was never supposed to … Continue reading
Happy birthday Marina Abramović (you scare the hell out of me)
My take on performance art is…complicated. My better self has the same respect, the same esteem, for this art and these artists as I do for any art, any artist. My kneejerk self, though, tends to look at performance artists … Continue reading
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Who is burning the Heidelberg Houses?
Art has to transform something, beyond its own medium and materials. It has to transform a space, even a landscape. Often in doing so, it transforms some minds. Which is intended, or at least hoped for. But then there are … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, deconstruction, destruction, Detroit, Heidelberg Project, what is culture?
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I culture you: Hop aboard
Humulus lupulus: the hop flower. Fruit of a herbaceous perennial vine, cultivated mainly in northern temperate regions, used extensively as an antibacterial herbal additive. Which is nice. But for my money, hops have one beautiful, noble purpose: they’re what turns … Continue reading
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Tagged ale, beer, bitter beer face, hops, I culture you, India Pale Ale, IPA, Jim Kock, lager, PSA, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, what is culture?
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Saving art by shutting it away
At some point, if we’re smart enough and responsible enough to make the sacrifice, we have to stop being consumers of art and start being conservators. And it is indeed a sacrifice. The art that demands our protection is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art preservation, culture, ecology, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sistine Chapel, what is culture?
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Banksy in Manhattan
Sometimes the artist becomes a brand, a profit center. Usually when that happens the results are regrettable. But sometimes the artist hangs on to his or her integrity. Sometimes the lure of fame and success aren’t enough to dilute the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Banksy, culture, graffitti, New York City, street art, what is culture?
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Kill your Buddha
I try not to too often use this soapbox as a dispensary for artistic advice (my good friend Robin K. has that all sewn up for writers over at More Ink and for visual artists at Ink and Alchemy). But … Continue reading
Inside the Whitney’s I-You-We exhibition
It’s not often that a storied art collection like that of New York’s Whitney Museum gets up and changes address. But that’s exactly what’s going to happen in 2015, when the museum’s new downtown building is complete, and the Whitney … Continue reading
To glimpse a Van Gogh
Funny thing about Vincent Van Gogh‘s series of sunflower paintings. As a subject, they’re as synonymous with the artist as any could be. His self-portraits and his visions of starry nights are iconic, of course; when it comes to still-life, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, Lost Sunflowers, Martin Bailey, Vincent Van Gogh, what is culture?
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