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“Yesterday this picture was worth millions…Today, it is worth nothing, and nobody would cross the street to see it for free. But the picture has not changed. What has?”
At least part of the fascination of cave paintings is the fact that, even though they may be anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 years old, they were painted by people who were just like us. They were the same species, homo sapiens, so it’s entirely possible that, if we could travel back in time, or […]
In an article titled Inflated Phrases, art professor Christian Demand makes a staggering attack on “the mass of linguistic strutting, moral imposture and lazy thinking” that fills the texts that usually accompany art exhibits. Admitting that he’s not an art critic, and resisting the temptation to treat that as a virtue, he fires a pretty […]
There have been so many times when I’ve been looking at a work of art that I wished I could meet the artist, ask them questions, or just tell them how much I like their work. And then, by pure luck, I was at the Sarratt Gallery and a tall, white-haired woman with glasses was […]
Few men that I know wear cuff links, but there’s something about a set of Scrabble tile cufflinks that makes me want to go out and buy a tux. They’re interesting conversation pieces, and most of the times I’ve played Scrabble I’ve had a really hard time using the letters Q and Z. The artisans […]
Responding to, and adding to, an article by William Deresiewicz, who said that literary criticism is “losing its will to live”, Jonathan Gottschall has come up with an astounding proposal: make literary criticism more like science. Blaming the decline in criticism’s relevance on the critics themselves, he says, We literary scholars have mostly failed to generate […]
Frida Kahlo is one of those artists who, because her work is so autobiographical, always brings to mind a question that’s practically an obsession for me. How important is an artist’s biography to understanding their work? How important should it be? Here are some interesting facts about Frida Kahlo: she was married to the muralist […]
In the summer between my junior and senior years in high school I got to be part of a special student trip to Europe and spent a week with a family in France. The first night we sat down to dinner and they served sliced fried potatoes. As part of our cultural exchange I asked […]
While tearing down modern art seems to be a regular occupation, it’s rare that I see an article praising a work of contemporary art. While there’s plenty of modern art that deserves to be torn down, the problem, I think, is that critics realize they’re leaving a vacuum in their wake. The recent flare-up of […]
If told I could go anywhere—and I mean absolutely anywhere—my first choice would be Naiad. It’s a tiny moon orbiting Neptune at less than thirty-thousand miles. Neptune’s closest known satellite, I think it would provide a spectacular view of one of the most amazing planets in the solar system. And, with the demotion of Pluto, […] |
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