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The Amen break
To talk fascinatingly about 40-year-old drum break you don’t know that you know. Brilliantly oblique! This is the apparent subject of a fantastic youtube recording of what amounts to an art project, but which is also a dissertation or argument for open copyright as an essential ingredient in the health of culture. Nate [...]
If for no more reason than the new Dan Brown has just been published, today’s post nods back to books. (’The [Dan Brown] books came straight off the printer, went straight into boxes and were then wrapped in black plastic and sealed,’ Random House spokeswoman Ms Reid said.)
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To a book with a cosmically different level [...]
“Ninety percent of everything is crud.” Sturgeon’s Law
On a roll – we follow on from yesterday’s post about the theft of Damien Hirst’s £500,000 pencils.
You may recall: the reputedly richest artist in the world (pictured left, poss. net worth £200 million) is in dispute with an 17-yr-old graffitist, Cartrain, which will end up in court [...]
Long story short: teenager steals a pack of pencils (above) from multi-millionaire artist, is arrested and up to be fined £500,000.
Slightly longer story: 18-year-old graffitist Carwreck, sorry – Cartrain – arrested by the Art and Antiques squad from New Scotland Yard for the theft of a packet of pencils from Tate Britain gallery. Currently out [...]
Photography v painting. That hoary old argument*. Naturally enough, photography wins, with hands tied behind its back. The density of detail, that magical documenting of evidence – today was fine, there was no wind, the sun was brilliant, the shadows were dark, she was smiling etc. (We have to trust that no photoshop was applied [...]
We’re not in Kansas!, said Dorothy to Toto.
And we’re not in NSW or SA or Victoria either, Toto.
We’re somewhere over the rainbow …
What did eventually penetrate my poor head as we wandered around Carnarvon Gorge in central Queensland was that I might have been lost on a parallel planet. It was all eerily familiar – [...]
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, aka Edgar Degas, arrived 19 July 1834, born into money. A god of art, the finest drawer of the human animal of his time and since, Picasso, Egon Schiele et al notwithstanding. He turns 175 this Sunday.
Did you manage to catch the Degas show in Canberra? (See the NGA’s slideshow.) Not a [...]
I’ve had art making on my mind. How one makes art. How one arrives at making art. A vague and fluid region – as the nun trilled about Maria in The Sound of Music, ‘How do you pin a wave upon the sand?’.
A grand old artist told me recently how, in his youth, he had [...]
If you’re going to New York this northern summer, you’ll no doubt be checking out the Met’s grand centennial show, or coronation, (as Slate puts it) of Francis Bacon. Like the New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl, I have mixed feelings about the paintings – still, Bacon is unavoidable. He’s got the car crash factor. Not going [...]
The inscrutonable Roger on the modern intoxication with ugliness.
At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, “beauty” would have been the answer…
The current habit of desecrating beauty suggests that people are as aware as they ever were of the presence [...]
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