RafaelFajardo

Tag: art

  • On the other hand, it must be satisfying to see his gifts as a director, so long forgotten, be praised. “The Force Awakens” makes it once again possible to think about George Lucas as a man of imagination, of conviction, and (minus Jar Jar Binks) of taste—as a brilliant appropriator rather than an average one.…

  • But he’s at pains to point out that this “anti-art” is itself part of art. “Art has something which destroys its own cells,” says Kiefer. “Damien Hirst is a great anti-artist. To go to Sothebys and sell your paintings directly” – as Hirst did in 2008 – “is destroying art. But in doing it to…

  • Fav games of 2015

    Fav games of 2015 my collaborator @andreblyth‘s Patient Rituals was included in Mattie Brice’s favorites of 2015 list, which is all kinds of cool!!!!

  • and now the Share Festival and Casa Jasmina is asking, what if the endpoints look different, if they themselves are also treated as art in the domestic landscape? http://www.toshare.it/tshr/bando-concorso-share-prize-2015-house-guests/?lang=en

  • So I want to talk about two questions tonight. The first one is, is art a luxury? Is it only a luxury or does it do something for us beyond that? And the second question is, is there a way that you can create a situation in which the arts flourish. If you think they’re…

  • Film Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent’

    Film Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ The ravages of colonialism cast a dark pall over the stunning South American landscape in “Embrace of the Serpent,” the latest visual astonishment from the gifted Colombian writer-director Ciro Guerra. Charting two parallel journeys deep into the Amazon, each one undertaken by a European explorer and a local shaman,…

  • damcollective: hollislana: Second in a series of videos produced by ReDouble Magazine and Gildar Gallery. This video takes you through our studio where we are preparing paintings, drawings and sculptures for our show.  Our friends in rabbit is a sphere provided the purty song.  We’re a little late to the party, but are still super…

  • damcollective: hollislana: Second in a series of videos produced by ReDouble Magazine and Gildar Gallery. This video takes you through our studio where we are preparing paintings, drawings and sculptures for our show.  Our friends in rabbit is a sphere provided the purty song.  We’re a little late to the party, but are still super…

  • (via Joaquín Torres-Garcia: The Arcadian Modern | PRESS REMARKS – YouTube) timings are approximate:00:08:00 time is not linear00:09:45 small, precarious, constructivist (constructed?) structures in wood… intentionally precarious…00:11:05 small wood constructures are a laboratory for formal invention and structural composition00:11:52 he comes to New York and there is this Ludic Laboratory of toys, and the importance…

  • What is it that an art student is learning when she learns to use her own blindness or ignorance as a tool? That blindness can lead to insight is something I was never taught as a philosophy major, and I suspect I would not have learned it if I’d studied chemistry, history or French either.…