October 2007
124 posts
Painting By Blunders →
Between millions in needed repairs, staff cuts, and weak returns on “Modernism,” the Corcoran Gallery of Art is having a hard time betting big.
How Robert Mapplethorpe Contributed To A Great... →
“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it...”
– Robert Mapplethorpe
Are Monet's Water-lilies Political Statements? →
About The Water Lily Paintings
Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The paintings depict Monet’s flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet’s artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted as Monet suffered from cataracts. In 1923, Monet had a lens removed from his right...
““It took me time to understand my ...”
– Claude Monet
“For me a circus is a magic show that appears and disappears like a ...”
– Marc Chagall
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in...”
– P. T. Barnum
“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the...”
– Erica Jong
Ancient History Of The Circus
In Ancient Rome the circus was a building for the exhibition of horse and chariot races, equestrian shows, staged battles, displays featuring trained animals, jugglers, and acrobats. The circus of Rome is thought to have been influenced by the Egyptians and Greeks, with chariot racing and the exhibition of animals as traditional attractions. The Roman circus consisted of tiers of seats running...
“Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is...”
– Edgar Watson Howe
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
– Dorothea Lange
Richard Prince Exhibition Now On At The... →
Floral Carpets In Antigua, Guatamala →
The Flower Carpets Of Guatemala
For days in advance, various social and neighborhood groups construct alfombras—carpets made of sawdust, fruits, and flowers—both in the churches and along the streets. Some include Christian symbols—a cross, or an ox for St. Luke—others owe their designs to the woven patterns of huipiles, the garments of Guatemala’s indigenous people, still others incorporate more contemporary, popular messages....
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal...”
– Jean Giraudoux
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
Renaissance Ceramics →
Official web site for the International Museum Of Ceramics, Faenza
““Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You...”
– Shirley Maclaine
““I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express...”
– Ruth St. Denis
Balafon West African Dance Ensemble →
“Too bad you can’t buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin...”
– Jack Handy
“I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that...”
– Geraldine Ferraro
“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.”
– Ben Okri
The process of Glitch Art Explained →
Glitching As An Artform →
Glitching - A Definition From Wikipedia
Glitching is the practice of finding and exploiting flaws in video games to achieve something that was not intended by the game designers. (Glitch Art may or may not start with a video game, in most cases it does not, but this and the following uses and definitions of the word show that the word glitch, a term first recorded in the 1960’s (see word history below) has grown virally like no...
“1. A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer...”
– Glitch - a definition from The Free Dictionary
“ 1) In electrical service, a glitch, sometimes called a power glitch, is a...”
– Glitch - a definition from Whatis.com
Glitch
Probably from Yiddish glitsh, a slip, lapse, from glitshn, to slip, from Middle High German glitschen, alteration of glten, to glide, from Old High German gltan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.
“glitchy adj. Word History: Although glitch seems a word that people would...”
– The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.