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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Great Championer of Art (Books - Kenneth Clark: Life, Art, and Civilisation by James Stourton)

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Kenneth Clark, I think it is safe to say, was the most influential championer of art of his time.  Art consultant to King George VI, Direc...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

A delayed account of bookeywookey's New York cultural wanderings (Books - The View from the Tower, Robert Oppenheimer, Night in Shanghai) (Film - Les Petits Mouchoirs) (Art - Gaugin, Sonnabend, and Jasper Johns)

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I have gotten hopelessly behind with a regular accounting of my reading this year, never mind the theatre, films, operas, and exhibits th...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

A thing of beauty is not a joy forever unless we make it so (Books - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt)

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Shorter days and colder temperatures made me crave a long, enveloping story with equal parts warmth, adventure, suspense, and romance.  I ...
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Monday, September 3, 2012

Aesthetics transforms vision and the mind, which transforms aesthetics... (Books - The Age of Insight By Eric Kandel)

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There has been a bevy of books examining wider aspects of culture as they intersect with brain science written by scientists in the past y...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Is art precious for its beauty, its value, or its usefulness? (Film - Summer Hours by Olivier Assayas)

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The 2008 film Summer Hours is all about legacy. It captures the lives of three siblings around the death of their mother, Helene, who was ...
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

The presence of the artist in the art - developing talent versus promoting it (Exhibits - Matisse: Radical Invention & Film - A Single Man)

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I just stared and stared at this painting at the stunning show currently on at MoMa - Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 . Exploring its...
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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Glorious New York update, gallery hopping, book hopping, book shopping, collapsing in a heap...

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What a glorious New York day I had yesterday! Had brunch with a friend in from L.A. Then met The Ragazzo and we walked the Highline ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Art and artists of a summer's day... (Art - James Ensor at MOMA & Books - Beautiful Shadow, The Children's Book, and The Snow Geese)

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A variety of activities at Bookeywookey central this weekend which all began with seeing the James Ensor show at MOMA . Who? I didn't...