Monthly Archives: July 2011

Weekly Wrap-up for July 29th, 2011

It’s the last weekend in July. If you haven’t had a summery weekend yet because of work, life, tennis elbow, crippling agoraphobia..now is your chance. Show me what you’re workin’ with.   Pentagonal Pods x L.A. Style x A Place … Continue reading

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The Art of the Steal

A friend of mine recommended I watch The Art of the Steal on Netflix, because it seemed ‘up my alley’. So I decided to queue it up one dark and stormy night. Not only is it up my dirty needle … Continue reading

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Web Finds for July 26th, 2011

(Circus, Moussa Kone) Looking for inspiration in all the right places..

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Immersion In My Intuitive Experience

(Moving Stripes, Philip Buller) “I apply paint, remove paint – creating and obscuring forms. A form must be fully realized before it can be obscured. The ambiguity of a blurred image often encourages me to reach below a literal interpretation of … Continue reading

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Weekly Wrap-up for July 22nd, 2011

101°F? Cannot. Sideshows x Skillsharing x Silver Screen x Summer Selections x Surrealist Showcase  

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Nat Tate, The Greatest Artist Who Never Really Lived

Earlier this week I wrote about Peggy Guggenheim. In her autobiography, she claims to have had affairs with numerous artists and in return, many others including artists, have claimed affairs with her. She is even mentioned as having had affairs … Continue reading

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Complete Liberty

(Indefinite Divisibility) “The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch … Continue reading

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The Priceless Peggy Guggenheim

I stumbled upon an article written about Peggy Guggenheim in The Independent from 2009. It is an extremely interesting look inside the life of this scandalous seminal figure from 20th century art history. Thought I would share some bits.. It was said that … Continue reading

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Those Who Confront Danger

(Hans Holbein – écorché (estasi), Nicola Samori) “Works of art are born of those who confront danger, who go to the limit of an experience, to a point beyond which no human can go. The farther one ventures, the more … Continue reading

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Weekly Wrap-Up for July 15th, 2011

(The Penitent Magdalen, Jusepe de Ribera) Was this the longest week ever? I’m serious. Maybe it is the full moon, or eclipses, or a Kraken disrupting tides off the coast of Namibia, but I thought this week would never end. … Continue reading

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