Cité de la Musique plaza on a Friday morning
Have you ever heard the
Category: Art
Art – Science’s Poor Cousin?
Art, glamorous as its image may seem, struggles to be taken seriously as an academic discipline in universities. Perhaps as a consequence, there is the constant
A Halloween Tale of Elegance – The Grotesque Fashion of the Rodarte Sisters
Driving north on the Pasadena Freeway, we would pass a cluster of old Victorian homes. One day, we noticed that a piece of
The Color Blue in Art & Life – Everything You Wanted to Know
It must have been a slow day in the New York Times when an article appeared that talks about the color blue. But, like
Are Museums Intimidating? First Impressions Count
…but I’d wager that the more appropriate adjectives for describing what reluctant museum-goers feel about museums include “boring,” “bewildering,” and “confusing,” because there isn’t enough way-finding information.
What is your experience of entering a large museum for the first time?
Fondation le Corbusier / Villa la Roche – A Lovely Walk in the 16th in Paris
La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France (1950)
Einstein understands le Corbusier.
As one turns from
Le Cabanon le Corbusier – Relevant Today?
Entrance hall, le Cabanon in le Bon Marché
In 1949, le Corbusier, while vacationing in the south of France, sketched
Paul Schimmel and Sanford Biggers – Experience or Interpretation?
The artificial construction people make is that painting is not intellectual, and does not involve much thinking, but involves psychic or subconscious pressures which are released through the act of painting. But I think painting like mine shows obvious kinds of hesitation and reworking which people associate with thought. — Jasper Johns
Allegheny Spring – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Fallingwater, Pennsylvania (April, 2012)
Trip of a lifetime!
Wright had surprised, and occasionally tested