Posted in Design, New York City, Visual Art, tagged Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Pont Neuf, Reichstag, The Gates on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Wednesday, the artist Jeanne-Claude, wife and creative partner of the artist Christo, passed away. New Yorkers remember Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s ambitious 2005 piece, The Gates, a sweeping installation with 23 miles of saffron fabric fluttering throughout Central Park.
The couple showcased their dramatic work all over the world, famously wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and [...]
Posted in Film, Music, Theater, Visual Art, tagged Black 47, Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, Gregory Burke, Iraq, Jess Klein, Matt Lowy, Suzanne Opton, Tom Long, Veteran's Day on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t know anyone who’s served in the military, Veteran’s Day is a holiday that’s easy to disregard; even if you have the day off, for the most part, business continues as usual. We decided instead to take a moment to look back at some of the stories we’ve aired on Studio 360 that [...]
Posted in Technology, Visual Art, tagged Brushes, cell phone art, David Hockney, iPhone, Touch Phone on November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was lucky enough to be a fly on the wall for Kurt’s interview with David Hockney last week. It was a revelation to hear him talk about his way of seeing. And I was surprised to learn that he has started painting on his iPhone, using the “Brushes” application, to “paint” lovely little pictures [...]
Posted in Literary, Video, Visual Art, tagged Billie Jean, Genoways, In Verse, Keannelly, Olkowski, poetry, single mothers, Somers-Willett, Troy, Virginia Quarterly Review on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Generally when somebody says to the editor of a radio program “I’m going to get a grant to do long-form multimedia reporting with a poet writing about the working poor,” the editor gets a look on his face. Poetry and poverty — not the most popular subjects in the rundown. But when that somebody is [...]
Posted in New York City, Theater, Visual Art, tagged Bob Marley, Candace Breitz, john lennon, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Performa '09, Performance art, South Africa, twins on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week New York welcomes “Performa ‘09“, the third biennial of performance art to hit the city. The event features more than 150 artists over three weeks, and one of whom has me very excited.
I was lucky enough to experience South African artist Candice Breitz’s video installation “Legend” a few [...]
Posted in Design, Visual Art, tagged Baby Clothes, Dave Cole, Iraq, Jeremy Dller, Kevlar, knitting, Studio 360, Visual Art on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got outed on the elevator the other day. A co-worker spotted knitting needles in my bag.
I rarely have a chance to knit these days, and compensate by indulging in the next best thing: looking at weird knitted art online.
Listening to this week’s show, I remembered an odd, thought-provoking site that can add to Jeremy [...]
Posted in Film, Literary, Visual Art, tagged Bill Carman, Chris Houghton, Cory Godbey, Maurice Sendak, Terrible Yellow Eyes, Where The Wild Things Are on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow, the much-anticipated film, “Where the Wild Things Are” is coming to theaters. It’s based on the beloved children’s book by Maurice Sendak, whose fantastical illustrations have inspired innumerable artists.
One of those inspired artists is Cory Godbey. Godbey is an illustrator who started the fabulous blog Terrible Yellow Eyes, an homage to Sendak [...]
Posted in Visual Art, tagged ArtPrize, Chuck Close, Eric Daigh, Georges Seurat, Grand Rapids, Ran Ortner, Tracy Van Duinen, Visual Art on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Out of 1,262 artists from 41 states and 15 foreign countries, Ran Ortner was declared the winner at ArtPrize, the festival that took over Grand Rapids, Michigan for the last couple of weeks. There were balloon sculptures and paper airplane demonstrations, but in the end, the public got behind Ortner’s two-dimensional painting, [...]
Posted in Literary, New York City, Visual Art, tagged carl jung, Jungian, psyche, red book, Sonu Shamdasani, unconscious, william blake on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Carl Jung, one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, had his own very fraught and very formative “confrontation with the unconscious.” He meticulously documented the experience. But his journals have remained unpublished and shrouded in mystery — until now. Bound as a single volume, The Red Book will be released [...]
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