Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 – 2018, a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine Lake. *
The middle of June is probably not Read More »
On the Wall and More – June in London and Paris
Posts Categorized: Art
2017 Venice Biennale (I) – Art As Mirror
[A note from Cecilia: See end of text] This year’s Biennale, in spite of some critics, for me fits the bill of art… Read More »
Desert X – Everywhere & Nowhere
Desert X, the first edition of a biennial in the vast Coachella Valley, 120 miles east of Los Angeles, opened Read More »
Thermal Military Camera – On The Refugees
Still from Richard Mosse’s Incoming
I had no idea this was only the beginning…
In the winter of 2002, I was crossing Read More »
Art & Math – Percussion Of Stone-age Serengeti
1.6 million-year-old stone handaxe (British Museum) from the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Stone knapping was what Read More »
Cézanne The Neuro-artist – Form Over Color
Mont Sainte-Victoire (1906) Paul Cézanne (French 1839–1906) #/media/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_111.jpg)
Keep your eyes at one of the dark spots in the painting – you can Read More »
MoMA 1929 – Monet, Cézanne, & Van Gogh Revisited
Alfred Barr, the legendary founding director of MoMA has Read More »
Helping The One-Percenters – The 99% Do Their Best
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Robert Smithson, Dead Tree, 1969 (Destroyed. Reconstruction at the 2015 Venice Biennale). *
‘“When you look at the issues facing society now – whether it’s health care, climate change, terrorism, energy – these are the kids who have the most potential to solve these problems,” says David Lubinski, professor of psychology in Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. “These are the kids we’d do well to bet on.”’
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Out Of Africa – How Picasso Got It Wrong
This Ori Olokun head (or one like it) was first discovered in 1910 in Read More »
Is Technology Art? Clifford Ross’s Photography
In reviewing the exhibition catalog, Seen and Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross for Leonardo Reviews, I came upon Read More »