Just when we think we know why we are superior to monkeys – the larger size of our prefrontal cortex: that ‘thinking’ or executive brain – now neuro-biologists are telling us we don’t really
Author: Cecilia Wong
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
Who’s the Real Artist – Leonardo or Michelangelo?
Who is the greater novelist, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? The writer Kevin Hartnett, writing in The Millions admitted to his preference for “Tolstoy’s ability to see the angles of everyday life to Dostoevsky’s taste for the manic edges of experience.
Robert Smithson’s Dream Come True – In a Quarry Hotel in Shanghai?
Land Art in the form of a hotel?
More than that – it’s also an aquatic park, aquarium, rock climber’s haven… not to mention extreme sports fanatics’ playground. Best of all, all these will provide great entertainment for the hotel guests on their balcony, win-win, I imagine.
London Spring – No Stone Unturned…
St Paul’s cathedral over the Millenium bridge from Tate Modern
Going to the Tate Galleries in London for me is like reading the New York Times.
