A haunting picture – remembering a comrade (Photo credit:Linda Davidson/THE WASHINGTON POST)
There are in reality three Vietnam Veterans Memorials. The third one is not Read More »
Vietnam Veterans Memorial(s) – Which One Is Art?
Posts Categorized: Art
Reality Check – How Is Art Faring In Schools?
100 Cans (1962), Andy Warhol (US 1928 – 1987)
In my recent post here on Harvard University’s new admissions policy, I suggested the introduction Read More »
Why Quilt? Because You Can’t Read Or Write…
The Loving Quilt (2012), Barbara McCraw (US) (Reprinted from The Art Newspaper).
NEWS & UPDATES FOR Cartographer’s Conundrum Revisited – Sanford Biggers Was Right (2015)
3/6/2016 Can anyone of us imagine Read More »
Harvard’s New Admissions Policy – What’s Art Got To Do With It
Water Lily Pond (1917) Claude Monet (1840-1926) * 
Harvard University announced in late January of this year a major revision to Read More »
Ten Years On – Information vs Knowledge
DIKW pyramid (1991)
It was ten years ago, in late 2005 that I completed the essay which appears as the ‘flagship’ of this website: Information = Knowledge? My thesis is that knowledge is Read More »
When A Museum Experiments – The Hillman Photography Initiative At CMOA
The Persistence of Memory (1931), by Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904 – 1989) is a kind of soft image. *
Photography has always had a Read More »
Cartographer’s Conundrum Revisited – Sanford Biggers Was Right
The Cartographer’s Conundrum (2012), Sanford Biggers (USA b.1970, Installation view from art21)
Church pews ascend towards the heavens as they recede Read More »
Tech Use In Museums – Tate Sensorium & More…
Basket of Apples (1895), Paul Cezanne (French 1839 – 1906)
Can you smell, taste, or feel the roundness, or the ripeness of these apples? Do you need help? (See note below)
Digital technology has Read More »
The Polite American – When It Comes To Art Criticism
Das Kapital Recital, Venice Biennale, 2015
Reviewing the Venice Biennale, with its large number of artists in the main show alone (136 in 2015; 156 in 2013) is a difficult task. Add to it Read More »
Venice Biennale 2015 – The Loud & The Quiet
Shout it out
In a world that is increasingly explicit, words are written or read (and images made) in Read More »
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