It’s been up for a while, but I also finally got around to listening to the latest episode of RadioLab, this one called “After Life”. The second segment “Metamorphosis” was very poignant, with an unexpectedly logical underpinning.
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August 8, 2009
The Hours
Neat interactive graphic on NYT visualizing how different surveyed groups report spending their time.
February 21, 2009
The Art Ghetto
A snappy post by Daniel Siedell of University of Nebraska-Omaha (tip from AHN) considers “The Curse of the ‘Special Arts Issue’”, and how misguided editors (and complicit writers) doom their work to thematic ghettoes:
These editors actually believe they are are doing art and art writers a favor, you know, “celebrating the arts,” as it were, honoring them [...]
December 11, 2008
Vermeer for Today
Flying Fox: There are a handful of artists that have historically driven people to obsession. For Jonathan Janson it is Vermeer. Not only has he collected images and writings on Vermeer (adding a few of his own,) but in his investigation of Vermeer’s techniques he has executed his own paintings (see here for a release [...]
November 12, 2008
Roland Barthes eat your heart out
Also quality: handing me a mechanical pencil disguised as a traditional wood pencil after his trip to Japan this summer, Alan said, “Here you go, Matt! It’s an indexical sign of itself!”
Last week was a bit of a wake-up call, when I actually sat down to look at all the work left to be done [...]
March 31, 2008
Art Roundup
I’ll be posting about break in Florence and Venice hopefully tomorrow, but this wrote itself quickly this morning, so I decided to post it now.
After sorting through last week’s email (mercifully light given that it is also spring break at Williams) I got to a massive list of unread newspostings. Some choice selections follow.
A week-long [...]
March 7, 2008
New oven mitts!
I’ll write an actual newspost in a bit, but before that:
garfield minus garfield – Selected Garfield comic strips with all the charachters but Jon Arbuckle removed. As the website creator calls it, “a comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life…”
Stuff White People Like – Terrifyingly accurate description of small liberal [...]
June 30, 2007
Lazy Saturday
Man, one would almost think that it’s a summer Saturday given the amount of nothing that I’ve done today. Just woke up from a killer nap, fearful that I should be doing something, then reminded myself to get a grip.
This past week, I went to a new exhibit at the Sackler Gallery which was mind-blowing, [...]
