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Bookmark The Age of Semi-Post-Modernism
It seems to me part of the problem is that the term "postmodernism" was always so muddy and abstract. To different people, it meant (at least) two different things. First of…

August 16 2010, 2:56am | Comments
Bookmark Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived
It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an artist;…

July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark Last Supper helpings have grown
An unusual study looks at the food portions in artistic depictions of the Last Supper throughout history. The apostles have eaten better and better over the years, scholars say. The Christian…

July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments
Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read
"In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments
Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)
by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments
Bookmark Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel
At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known…

June 1 2010, 2:44am | Comments
Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010
With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments
Bookmark Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to
Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where…

May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm
Animal Farm, as its author later wrote, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into…

April 26 2010, 4:49am | Comments
Bookmark The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius
When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius…

April 9 2010, 3:40am | Comments
Bookmark Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures:…
Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the…

March 29 2010, 8:51am | Comments
Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces
Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings…

March 10 2010, 10:45am | Comments
Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World
Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends
The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments
Bookmark Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn…

November 21 2009, 4:43am | Comments
Portfolio Profane Prisms

November 5 2009, 1:14pm | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image
IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments
Bookmark Beauty, Art, and Darwin
It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from? Judging from his new…

November 1 2009, 3:37am | Comments
Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments
YouTube

October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments
Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…
Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments
Flickr Karaoke Screens (Flickr Pool)

August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments
Bibliography Critical Play

August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

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