May 22, 2012

This was a fabulous 360 projection installation at the Hirschhorn in D.C. It just ended Sunday.

May 3, 2012
April 8, 2012

The New Aesthetic?

So I was catching up on my art and culture blogs and I came across this “Essay on the New Aesthetic.” I like art and aesthetic theory, so of course I started reading.

If you want to read it to, here’s the URL:
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/

To be honest, I hadn’t heard of the “New Aesthetic” ever before. After his exhaustive essay, I’m pretty sure I get what Bruce Sterling is talking about. He certainly dropped enough names and art historical references for me to think he’s credible. But if this new movement has the potential to be bigger than Cubism, why haven’t we heard about it before? At the moment it seems like more of a buzz word. Perhaps similar to the Occupy Movement, this New Aesthetic is trying to do something new, but it hasn’t quite organized itself just yet. 

Here are some other responses to the essay. It looks like a lot of the creatives are on the same page:
http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/in-response-to-bruce-sterlings-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic 

April 7, 2012
I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. You don’t look like any girl I’ve seen before.
I couldn’t say: “Well. she looks just like Jane Fonda except that she’s got red hair and her mouth is different and of course she’s not a movie star.”
I couldn’t say that because you don’t look like Jane Fonda at all.
I finally ended up describing you as a movie I saw when I was a child in Tacoma, Washington. I guess I saw it in 1941 or ‘42: somewhere in there. I think I was seven or eight or six. It was a movie about rural electrification and a perfect 1930s New Deal morality kind of movie to show kids.
The movie was about farmers living in the country without electricity. They had to use lanterns to see by at night, for sewing and reading, and they didn’t have any appliances, like toasters or washing machines, and they couldn’t listen to the radio.
Then they built a dam with big electric generators and they put poles across the countryside and strung wire over fields and pastures.
There was an incredible heroic dimension that came from the simple putting up of poles for the wires to travel along. They looked ancient and modern at the same time.
Then the movie shows Electricity like a young Greek god coming to the farmer to take away forever the dark ways of his life.
Suddenly, religiously, with the throwing of a switch the farmer had electric lights to see by when he milked his cows in the early black winter mornings.
The farmer’s family got to listen to the radio and have a toaster and lots of bright lights to sew dresses and read the newspaper by.
It was really a fantastic movie and excited me like listening to “The Star-Spangled Banner” or seeing the photographs of President Roosevelt or hearing him on the radio.
“…The President of the United States…”
I wanted electricity to go everywhere in the world. I wanted all the farmers in the world to be able to listen to President Roosevelt on the radio.
That’s how you look to me.
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March 28, 2012 • 1 note

Art advice from sculptor Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse. So good!

March 28, 2012
March 27, 2012

Can I have Truman Capote's old house in the Hamptons?

March 23, 2012

So good. Puts me in a creative mood.

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