Category Archives: Art

340. Art that is diagnostic.

Part of a review of an exhibition. This disparate collection has been selected and in some cases created as a response to Ballard’s ‘enormous cultural significance’. It aims to illustrate ‘a dystopian vision of the present and future which is the prevailing landscape for a wide range of artists working today’. Ballard’s creation of worlds …

March 7, 2010 – 1:24 am | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

190. New Mozart Pieces Unveiled (VIDEO)

no commentary necessary. New Mozart Pieces Unveiled (VIDEO) via New Mozart Pieces Unveiled (VIDEO).

August 3, 2009 – 12:35 am | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

168. Cartoons and thought

This is terrific Welcome to Secret Acres.

July 20, 2009 – 8:28 pm | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

124. Why we are slow to change..

Why We Speak English by Lynn Pedersen Because when you say cup and spoon your mouth moves the same way as your grandfather’s and his grandfather’s before him. It’s Newton’s first law: A person in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force— scarcity …

June 23, 2009 – 3:22 am | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art, Community | Comments (0)

94. paired lecturers

May 8, 2009 – 2:13 am | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art, doug art | Comments (0)

92. Jeffrey Schnapps blog | Stanford Humanities Lab

The value of iamges in backgrounds. here, the announement of futurism and wild energy, so the music score.. Jeffrey Schnapps blog | Stanford Humanities Lab.

May 5, 2009 – 11:02 pm | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art, Strategy Center | Comments (0)

37. dc painting march, river in flood Russian River

April 4, 2009 – 9:40 am | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

12. LRB · Peter Campbell: At the National Gallery

For some relief.. At the National Gallery Peter Campbell ‘I have a feeling,’ Picasso said as he got older, ‘that Delacroix, Giotto, Tintoretto, El Greco and the rest, as well as all the modern painters, the good and the bad, the abstract and the non-abstract, are all standing behind me watching me at work.’ He …

March 21, 2009 – 10:10 pm | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

9. Faulkner on truth and literature.

 I don’t know the source but “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”  — William Faulkner Which of course is true. via Quotes by William Faulkner (page 1 of 3).

March 21, 2009 – 8:53 am | By doug carmichael | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

drawing dec 6

he and she  

December 6, 2008 – 10:34 pm | By | Posted in Art | Comments (0)