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That Thing Called The Greater Good

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Art, after all, is one of the places where the pursuit of happiness gains focus and purpose and starts expanding outward, to aid and abet that thing called the greater good. Roberta Smith in The New York Times Occupiers at Sol LeWitt @ City Hall Park – Public Art Fund – All Rights Reserved bruno […]

Art Is For The Living

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Art is for the living. If someone has lived creatively and you are grateful, for goodness sake, write them a letter, or create a website about them; get an article about them published if you have the opportunity, or if you are an editor, commission tributes while she or he can read them. Jonathan Jones […]

How to read images

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Jason Kottke calls it “the most information-rich paragraph I’ve ever read online…it’s like an entire film class in 12 lines”. It’s from a column named How to read a movie written by the great movie critic Roger Ebert: In simplistic terms: Right is more positive, left more negative. Movement to the right seems more favorable; […]