Repository 148: Top 7 Ways Businesses Should be Like Artists
Still from “What about Bob”, released in 1991 In the past 10-15 years there has been increasing pressure on artists to operate like a business – Rhode Island School of Design ensures their graduates...
View ArticleRepository 149: Art and Empathy | Artists Exploring the Horrific
Art deals with things forever incapable of definition and that belong to love, beauty, joy and worship. The shapes, power and glory of which are ever building and unbuilding and rebuilding in each...
View ArticleRepository 150: Artist Maira Kalman on the Importance of Children Meditating
Below is a lovely reminder from Maira Kalman of why children, now more than ever, should find space and time at school to meditate. Found in the August issue of “Mindful”. Enjoy (click on it and it...
View ArticleRepository 151: Art as Trojan Horse | König’s Russian Manifesta
Image of Kasper König courtesy of the photographer Igor Simkin and The Calvert Journal. The German curator Kasper König was asked last year to curate Manifesta 10, going on now in the venerable,...
View ArticleRepository 152: Perception and Dialog | Language creates thought, thought...
Image courtesy Catherine Haley Epstein What you see depends on what you think – David Bohm As much as we’d like to pigeon language as something that is descriptive and separate from the real thing, it...
View ArticleRepository 153: Quality is Queen
qual·i·ty noun \ˈkwä-lə-tē\ : how good or bad something is : a characteristic or feature that someone or something has : something that can be noticed as a part of a person or thing : a high level of...
View ArticleRepository 154: New Museum | Landlord for Artists or True Visionary
Almost half a year ago I caught wind of the New Museum launching an incubator, “New, Inc.” – which in business speak is a place where you coddle and launch profitable businesses – the hotter it is in...
View ArticleRepository 155: Betrayal of Tradition | Chua Ek Kay
“Tradition has been created by serious people who considered life a serious business and that it was necessary to produce serious things so that serious posterity would understand everything that these...
View ArticleRepository 156: Bon Mots | A Poem to Celebrate New Web Site
***** NEW SITE is HERE ******* (I am trying to move subscribers to the new platform, please feel free to sign up on new site, as I would hate to miss you in the move!!) Another short post as this week...
View ArticleRepository 157: OYGBIV | Europe’s Pending Ban on Red
Image: Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Body Tracks), 1974, Lifetime color photograph. ©Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York. It’s strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate...
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