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9 to 5 paintings creates images from the movement of your mouse during the day.
- jim 11-28-2006 11:06 pm [link] [1 ref] [6 comments]

All-time dumbest comic book covers.
- alex 11-12-2006 9:13 pm [link] [5 comments]

rbt williams


- bill 11-07-2006 2:15 am [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

!?!?!?

Tucker also excelled at ending things. In 1997, after 22 years of directing her beloved institution, she did another thing people don't do much: She voluntarily stepped aside. Nudge-nudge, museum people everywhere, and I suppose also art critics. Like I said, Tucker was a hero.

- bill 10-31-2006 5:22 pm [link] [4 comments]

brice marden at moma (is it so wrong to like this work - i think not.)


- bill 10-27-2006 4:03 pm [link] [3 comments]

Heard a talk yesterday by Julie Taymor. Wow. Incredibly smart woman.

To start the program there was a 15 minute video with clips from many of her works, including a 5 minute preview of her upcoming film Across the Universe, parts of which were filmed on Clinton Street.

Not really much to report, except that I couldn't have been more impressed by her. She reminded me of my favorite professor from college in the way she combines an overpowering intellect with a genuine sense of compassion and caring. Very rare in my experience (where such smart and accomplished people are often arrogant, or worse.)

On a side note, the one line I took away actually came from the Irish interviewer who gave a rather pithy definition of mythology: "a past that never was, and always will be." That's a good one I think.
- jim 10-02-2006 3:43 pm [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]