ART + ARCHITECTURE
In the Arts, Repeating Our Actions and Expecting a Different Result Defines Insanity
by Diane Ragsdale | Jumper
About a month ago I read an article in the Atlantic on the phenomenal success of Finland’s primary and secondary education public school system—a success which, the article suggests, the US has failed to understand.
There are some notable differences between the US system and Finland’s:
1. Teachers in Finland are given prestige, decent More...
Die for Art; Art To Die For
by Edward Goldman | ArtTalk
There are much better exhibitions I have seen in the past and somehow quickly forgot. But here's one, which I saw over the weekend at the Hammer Museum, that I cannot stop thinking about even though some of the artworks there, to put it politely, are not very good.
So let's start with the difficult-to-pronounce, exotic name of the artist, Alin More...
Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon
by Edward Goldman | ArtTalk
Twenty years ago, when a huge, ambitious show at LACMA celebrated the Splendors of Thirty Centuries of Art in Mexico, something strange happened in the very last room of the exhibition, dedicated to the best Mexican painters of the 20th century. There they were, the great masters: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, fa More...
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which Is the Prettiest Fair of All?
by Edward Goldman | ArtTalk
Love it or hate it, this city of ours is known and defined by perpetual driving along the miles and miles of its freeways. You want to have a perfect portrait of the city? Think about pulling, twisting, thrusting together all these roads. Then add the hundreds of thousands of cars rushing and whooshing around and around. Hmmm...interesting idea, is More...
Cultural Weekly’s Top 10 Stories of the Year
In a year filled with uncertainty, Cultural Weekly’s readers are sure-footed – you like stories with depth, analysis and strong points of view.
Here are your Top 10 most-read stories for 2011.
10. In Why Theatre Will Survive, Adam Leipzig walks down Hollywood Blvd. and discovers that theatre, although the least technological of all the ar More...
Occupy Xmas?
by Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Escape Capitalism, 2011, Adbusters, Vancouver, B.C.
Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism. It was founded in Vancouver by artist Ted Dave, and subsequently promoted by Adbusters Magazine, based in Vancouver, Canada. The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Mexico in September 1992 "as a day for society to More...
