Though the concept of “binge” doesn’t seem the sort of thing that makes sense during Lent, [Read more]
Tag Archives: art
For all I know, there’s a whole field devoted to figuring out what seems cozy to which populations of people, what coziness does to our brains, [Read more]
How much poorer we would all be if we somehow believed that important art is limited to certain kinds of works or certain genres or media [Read more]
The finished piece looks so right and polished that it gives the impression that the work to bring it about was somehow effortless. [Read more]
Making allowance for some exaggeration, [Read more]
In one collection from the national library of Chile (Memoria Chilena) I found a medieval jester on a donkey as well as diagrams showing various views of cranial anatomy. [Read more]
But after splashing a lot of color around, it’s good to be reminded of the power of black and white, and slow, careful, tangible work, [Read more]
Until I make that shift, too much of my energy gets burned up in irritation and judgment rather than in action. [Read more]
But it turns out that the more I write, the more I find to write about, so I guess it shouldn’t surprise me. [Lori Notes]
In this age of ubiquitous digital manipulation, it’s easy not to trust what we’re seeing. When I first saw works by the pastel artist Zaria Forman, I was a bit confused– [Read more]