Art
November 13, 2009
- After Chagall A man grips a woman by the shoulders On a bed in the open air, a courtyard With a wall no taller than their knees stopping No one from getting in or seeing them there In the middle of a town blue as the sky, An anxious overcast blue, both of them clothed, Both of them solemn and seated, ...
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November 8, 2009
- It seems they gave me a blog feature on this website. It sounds pretty exciting, I've never wrote a blog before. As far as blogs go, this ones busting my cherry.We should get this trash train a' rollin'.For starters my name is Philip, you can call me Phil if you want and I reside in Athens GA. Check out my profile if you're interested in anything further.As for right now I'm not sure what to make ...
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November 7, 2009
- By the numbers on my dashboard, I see that quite a few of you have visited the art on my media page. I really appreciate your dropping by. For a weekend mini-vacation, I invite all of you to stroll through a fresh posting of my visual art. Come as you are. Guaranteed easy on the feet! The luxury of living deep in the Maine woods brings me fresh artistic inspiration daily ...
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November 6, 2009
- Born in Tahiti, Pele is the Hawaiin Goddess of fire, lightning, volcanoes, dance, and violence. Landing first at Ni'ihau, then Kauai, Pele moved down the chain of islands in order of their geological formation, eventually landing on the Big Island's Mauna Loa. As a word in the Hawaiian language her name, pele, means molten lava. She is not, therefore, a spirit who lives in the molten lava, she is ...
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October 31, 2009
- Phyllis Kornfeld – whose Cellblock Visions is a powerful and beautiful collection of art made by people in prison – has begun the Inside/Outside Envelope Project. As Phyllis describes: “Envelope art is a long-standing tradition in prison art. Beautiful envelopes sent to loved ones communicate a deep connection. The Inside/Outside Envelope Project is expanding that connection. Incarcerated ...
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October 30, 2009
October 28, 2009
- We are opening our doors! The concept is a conservatory where the archetypes method is used as an organizing principle for all work.Our curriculum opens with a weekly Friday night "AW Movie Night," where we will watch a "UoD" movie from the list in the book. UoD movies contain two worlds or "universes of discourse" which interact in a particular way. ...
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October 26, 2009
- What a fall for art in the US! I've previously blogged about finding Michelangelo in New York and Ft. Worth as well as Caravaggio in Chicago. Well, now add Minneapolis to your list of cities to visit this fall. Personally, I love Minneapolis -- the sculpture garden, the Minnesota Orchestra, the downtown Dayton's (now Macy's) -- Minneapolis is a fabulous city. And this fall there's one more ...
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October 25, 2009
- I'm not known for the brevity of my blogposts, but if I had the power to command, this one would consist of three short sentences: Go here and read the Framework. Go here and sign on as an endorser. Go here and share your stories of culture and community. You can do all those things now, then come back and read the rest, okay? But in case you want to be persuaded first, let me try. Art & ...
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October 21, 2009
- I watched Howard Deutch's Some Kind of Wonderful the other day. The film was written by the late John Hughes and was released in 1987. I'd seen it only once, on VHS when I was in grade 9. A friend of mine had put me onto it, and he was a mad fan of the movie, writing 'SKOW' on his school bag and so on.The film is terrific and well worth another viewing, especially if you haven't seen it in a long ...
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