by admin | Feb 12, 2010 | Bullying, Identity-based art, Name Calling, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
I remember. Unlike so many people I know, I remember. The details may not be 100% but the colors, emotions and general tone of the experiences are still vivid. So many middle-aged adults, like myself, look at young people and say, “Look at them. How can...
by admin | Feb 2, 2010 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working out the issues of how I want to spend the balance of my days. Given my family history (mom dead at 62, dad at 76) if I make it to 80, it will be a miracle. Combine that with having smoked for way too many years, which...
by admin | Dec 2, 2009 | Painting, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
Had you ever heard of this word? I certainly hadn’t until recently when I read it in a blog interview with Claude Emile Furones on the website The Art Point. It’s an amazing interview with the most articulate of artists. Unfortunately, the interview is no...
by admin | Nov 2, 2009 | Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
There is a wonderful series on Public Television called “ART:21” that I recently started watching (ah, the wonders of Hulu!). This particular series seeks an in-depth investigation into the why and wherefores of contemporary art of all kinds. A portion of...
by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
What would a reinterpretation of this very famous painting be like? How would one handle it in a post Duchampian world? This is the question I am puzzling over at this very moment. It’s both marvelously frivolous and frankly serious being such an event and...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
A month after the now infamous urinal by R. Mutt (Marcel Duchamp) was rejected by the exhibition he had submitted it to, a little magazine called The Blind Man, which was co-edited by Duchamp, defended Mr Mutt’s Fountain: “Whether Mr Mutt with his own...
