ART + ARCHITECTURE
The Lost Painting: A Caravaggio Found
by John Bailey
When cinematographers talk about their craft, many are keen to reference paintings as a window into their work. Some of them cite specific artists: Rembrandt (Gordon Willis), Georges de la Tour (Nestor Almendros), Edward Hopper (Laszlo Kovacs), Vittore Carpaccio (Vittorio Storaro)—- of course, Vermeer for all of them. However, n More...
Street Conquistador
by Daniel Rolnik | Argot and Ochre
Jesse Hazelip creates his awesome wheat-pastes with meaning. He's a fearless conquistador of the street, having hit up the now-popular abandoned gas station at Ashby and Telegraph in Berkeley, CA before anyone else with his classic buffalo piece. Jesse and I spoke about his new body of work exploring the prison industrial complex as w More...
Heike Weber: Changing Expectations
by Daniel Rolnik | Argot & Ochre
"What's the best place to build a snowman?" Daniel Rolnik asks in this interview.
"In a lush garden with a multiplicity of plants and blossoms, and the most important thing is to build it in the summertime," German-born artist Heike Weber tells him.
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The Mad, Mad Chase for Innovation in the Arts
by Diane Ragsdale | Jumper
A few weeks back, I wrote in a post that I’m beginning to wonder whether the process of adapting to a changing environment has become harder for arts organizations than it needs to be because many arts funders seem to be fixated on the idea that future success will come only through ‘radical innovation’. I suggested that perhaps we More...
The World’s First Photograph
by John Bailey
He took his middle name from the ninth century Patriarch of Constantinople. He and his brother, Claude, invented the world’s first combustion engine, receiving a patent from Napoleon Bonaparte in July of 1807. A lunar crater is named after him. He was an independently wealthy farmer who raised a plebian crop of sugar beets. He coined the term v More...
In a Dark Room. Intoxicated.
by Edward Goldman | Art Talk
My recent trip to Europe ended up in Barcelona, sneaking from one dark room to another in the hotel where I was staying. But let me assure you, I was doing this for all the right reasons. About fifty art dealers from around the world gathered there for Loop, an annual video art fair. Each dealer, in his or her room, was allowed to show only one v More...
“Isfahan is Half the World”
by Aram Yardumian | Times Quotidian
Of Isfahan in the mid-seventeenth century, French traveler Jean Chardin wrote, “It is the grandest and the most beautiful town in the whole of the east” and its surrounding countryside “incomparable for its beauty and fertility.” Situated on the central Iranian Plain, at the vertex of trade routes, Chardin found the city a bus More...
3 Fragments of a Lost Tale
by Daniel Rolnik | Argot and Ochre
John Frame currently has an exhibit at the beautiful Huntington Library in San Marino, California. “Three Fragments of a Lost Tale”, showcases sculptures and an accompanying animation in a totally immersive environment that took Frame over 5 years to build.
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Why Stein?
by Chloe Veltman
Gertrude Stein was unkind about the Bay Area. "There is no there there," she once famously said about her home town of Oakland.
Nevertheless over the next few months, the region is going to be abuzz with cultural matter centering on the grande dame of 20th century art.
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