Jed Perl, the art critic for the New Republic, has penned a terrifically long and bombastic broadside against the contemporary art scene, with pot shots aimed towards Koons, Murakami and Hirst amongst others, but sparing no one, not even the museum-going public, ie you and me.
I do not really believe that the educated audience that [...]
Andy Baio of waxy.org interviews Alan Taylor, the Boston.com programmer behind “The Big Picture”, which I referenced a few days back. The lack of organizational obstacles is interesting. Taylor was pretty much able to prototype, launch and maintain the new feature (is it a blog? is it Boston Globe editorial? unclear) without too much interference [...]
An interesting Austrian research study shows that subject matter makes a much bigger, faster impact on viewers of art than the style of that image. Viewers register the image’s content or subject matter in a split second, less than 1/100 of a second into viewing. Still, style’s impact grows quite quickly even within the first [...]
After writing last night’s post, something of a stream of consciousness about whether I know what I’m doing when I take pictures, this morning I read a post in a similar vein from Liz Kuball. I just ran across Liz’s blog the other day, but she raises some similar issues about how you grope your [...]
How are we supposed to learn how to work, how to make pictures? There are plenty of courses on the technical aspects: how to get a proper exposure, rules of composition, eliminating camera shake, etc. What I’,m getting at is how do you come to ideas, how to discover your subject, how to you order [...]
Camilo José Vergara was unknown to me before I attended “Where We Live” at the Getty a little over a year ago. After a road trip through northern New Mexico the summer before, I’d noticed a lot of small churches dotting the highways, often in repurposed buildings, but expressing what I read as an authentic, [...]
