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Toward an experiential art
stilleatingoranges: We have said that art does not exist. However, those works which are called “art” do exist; and, when we are immersed in them, we have experiences. The most honest aesthetic theory does not go beyond these immediate surface experiences, in which the viewer connects to the work intuitively, without attempting to take control via…
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There are of course many photographers who work completely outside of the assignment-photography mainstream, and I admire their tenacity. However the truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a pure artistic practice. After all, the fine-art and gallery circuit is simply another type of market, with frustrations that I think…
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who-wore-it-better: Gerhard Richter 4900 :: Tauba Auerbach Half Times a Half Times a Half
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nevver: Tear this up
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thesochillnetwork: The day graphic design died
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These writers function more like programmers than traditional writers, taking Sol Lewitt’s dictum to heart: “When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art,” and raising new…
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hautepop: via cibelle: Transparent Business Coffee Shop #newtrend?! #hunt;darton cafe on Lower Clapton road I like this. There’s lots of talk about “transparency” vis-a-vis the “social business”, which is mostly just jargon but here it is in action. I also think it’s likely to be good business sense – it brings the customer into the…
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cyberpunkculture: William Gibson, Google Glass
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What About Denise Scott Brown?
What About Denise Scott Brown? When Venturi got the Pritzker phone call, though, his surprised reaction was to ask: What about Denise? “Denise” is Denise Scott Brown, who had been Venturi’s intellectual collaborator since the early nineteen-sixties, and a partner in the firm since 1969, deeply involved in everything it had done. Scott Brown was…
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alexainslie: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Didn’t Foucault also say something similar in describing the specific intellectual?