Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Student Work: Tracy Mullen
First time I introduced a "Why unfired Clay" project. This is a pretty great response from one of my Intermediate Students:
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Pieter Hugo
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Steven Mohapi, Johannesburg, 2003 |
Labels:
art,
articles,
black,
my reviews,
photography,
white
Hillary Wiedemann
Gray Area, 2012; reflective fabric; 36 x 36 in. and Untitled (for Goethe), 2012; glass microspheres, paint, vinyl tiles; approximately 300 sq. ft.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Similar but Different
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Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard via: HERE. |
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Western Colorado Petroglyphs via:Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives |
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Spiral Woman, state II, Louise Bourgeois via: moma. |
Labels:
black,
ceramics,
pink,
similar but different
Shoe design 1939
Shoes by the French designer Steven Arpad (1904-1999)
Via: Retornaut via Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Via: Retornaut via Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Happy Birthday Diane Arbus.
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Photograph of Diane Arbus by Allan Arbus, c. 1949 |
"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child." - Norman Mailer
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A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. (1970) |
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Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967. |
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Lady Bartender |
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A lobby in a building, N.Y.C. (1966) |
Labels:
anomalies,
art,
photography,
research
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Berndnaut Smilde: miniature clouds
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“Nimbus II” (2012) |
Farewell to the Monkey House
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The Monkey House at the Bronx Zoo closed last month after 111 years, as the thinking on animal exhibits has evolved. |
Two articles on the closing of the Monkey House at the Bronx Zoo in the New York Times:
"All zoos, from the major accredited to the ramshackle roadside, ultimately pivot around and profit from that bittersweet blend of awe and loneliness we humans feel over being the only animal who can look back at all the others and capture them: not just behind bars, but with names. From the dawn of consciousness, we’ve been trying to frame, in everything from creation mythology to zoological parks, the simultaneous sense of kinship with and irreparable separateness from animals that our consciousness calls to mind." Read More...- By CHARLES SIEBERT
"The Monkey House was also where, in 1906, the zoo exhibited a human, a Congolese pygmy named Ota Benga, who wrestled with an orangutan in a cage. “It’s certainly something that shouldn’t have happened,” Mr. Breheny said. " Read More...- By JAMES BARRON
Labels:
articles,
feral,
hypertricosis,
research
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Louise Bourgeois
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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