Art and Architecture magazine

Arts & Architecture was a great arts/architecture/music/culture magazine published in the United States from 1945-1967. The magazine always had a great cover that reflected the art and design aesthetics fo the era, and now you can see images of all the covers together on the Arts & Architecture website. Here is a taste: But that’s [...]

Flogging art in L.A.

The Flog is a great art blog published by a French artist named Fette that covers the L.A. art scene in extensive, photographic detail. Says the site: Fette is a french visual artist who currently lives in Los Angeles. She started The Flog in April 2005 as a way to connect with the city’s flourishing [...]

Self portrait with Mare aux Songes

It may be the cliché of the moment, but I just got a new iPhone yesterday, and it’s a really great device. I snapped the pic below with the iPhone, then used the great WordPress for iPhone app to write and publish the whole post directly from the phone — very simple and intuitive. Only [...]

Four great little zoo sign mystery stain paintings

Found this a couple days ago at the Sacramento Zoo — click to see a larger version: The kind of beauty that capital improvement campaigns, sadly, usually replace. I should have offered to buy them a new sign if I can have the old one. Maybe I will.

Blogging while under the confluence

Chris King is a writer and musician living in St. Louis, a city born at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Chris has a thing for confluences, both literal and metaphoric — thus the theme of his blog, Confluence City. This fascination with confluences is something we have in common, as you’d probably [...]

Foaming at the mouth over a painting

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book The Black Swan (p. 204), relates this anecdote about Apelles of Kos, a renowned ancient Greek painter from the 4th century BC: Sextus Empiricus retold the story of Apelles the Painter, who, while doing a portrait of a horse, was attempting to depict the foam from the horse’s mouth. [...]

Flamethrower Shooting Gallery

A couple Crucible-dwelling metal/fire artists, Matisse and Roxie, have created a Flamethrower Shooting Gallery for this year’s Burning Man, which debuted recently at The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival in Oakland, California. Here’s a nice shot of the sooty aftermath: Via Gizmodo, where they have more photos and a video posted.

O gramatologia é grande

Pardon my rusty Portuguese (ok, my non-existent Portuguese, which is even rustier), but I just discovered a great art blog, Gramatologia, published by the Brazilian artist Amir Brito Cadôr. Amir’s work and the work of other artists he features is predominantly text-based in many different languages, and the site is mostly visual, so it doesn’t [...]

View of the new studio

I rented a huge new studio in May, then spent the next six weeks painting the walls, painting out the dark blue carpet, building desks, tables and shelves, and basically transforming it into a great workspace. Here is a view of it – click on the photo to see a larger version: This view from [...]

Parallel marginalia: Wölfli and Walser

Sam Goldenrule Jones writes and publishes several excellent blogs, including, Wandering with Robert Walser, “A project dedicated to Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956)”, a great writer I only recently discovered. The fact that Walser was Swiss, ended up in an insane asylum, and wrote stories and articles in a fantastically small microscript handwriting, put me [...]

Cage Cluster, or It Kurtz So Good

A nice composite image of John Cage cooking, from the excellent blog of the greatly named J. Henry Chunko: Mr. Chunko links  to this post about a recording of John Cage: Empty Words Part IV (1973-78). But I especially like the Lichtensteiger.de blog that he turned me on to, which has several pages of John [...]

Malevich Null – Zehn

Great exhibition photo of work by Malevich in The Last Futurist Exhibition ’0.10′, Petrograd, 1915, from a TateETC article: Apparently this is the only surviving photo from the exhibition, in which 21 of the 39 Malevich works in the show can be seen. More about The Last Futurist Exhibition. And take a look in this [...]