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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:12:48 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

What is the difference between design and art?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:32:00 -0500

Question: What is the difference between design and art?

Milton Glaser: There’s this stupid overlap between the two that no one understands. And the lack of distinction between art and design and art and non-art is so puzzling to people. And everybody wants to be an artist because, in terms of status, there’s almost nothing better you can be in almost any culture; basically, [this is] because art is terribly important as a survival mechanism for any culture. As a result, the people in primitive cultures who can create art as such are those who are highly respected. And that basically occurs in sophisticated cultures as well. But the only purpose of art is that it is the most powerful instrument for survival—art is so persistent in all our cultures because it is a means of the culture to survive. And the reason for that, I believe, is that art, at its fullest capacity, makes us attentive.

But if you look at a work of art, you can re-engage reality once again, and you see the distinction between what you thought things were and what they actually are. Because of that, it is a mechanism for the species to survive. And because of that, it is terribly important in human consciousness. I also believe, curiously, that beauty, which is very often something we confuse with art, is merely a mechanism to move us towards attentiveness. You realize we all have a genetic capacity and need to experience beauty, but beauty is not the ultimate justification for art. It is merely the device by which we are led to attentiveness.

Anyhow, this is all very complex. And I’ve been thinking about it most of my life and now I finally feel that I can distinguish between what is art and what is not. And my distinction is if it moves you to attentiveness, it is art. If it doesn’t, it’s something else.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:29:38 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:54:54 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22)

via minusbaby

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:29:28 -0500

via minusbaby

"Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:12:53 -0500

““Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.””

- Ernest Hemingway
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:24:33 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15)

sympathyfortheartgallery: nevver: Trophy Wife, Art Observed

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:45:35 -0500

sympathyfortheartgallery:

nevver:

Trophy Wife, Art Observed

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:40:39 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:13:23 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

ADAM MCEWEN - “TEXT MESSAGING”

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:58:09 -0400

ADAM MCEWEN - “TEXT MESSAGING”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:35:10 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:02:24 -0400

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:29 -0400

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My favorite fire extinguisher tag — Curtis near the...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:54 -0400

My favorite fire extinguisher tag — Curtis near the Williamsburg Bridge

Everyone is always trying to legitimize graffiti as street art,...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:27:11 -0400

Everyone is always trying to legitimize graffiti as street art, and thats cool, but I love graffiti as a fuck-you expression of existence and life. These fire extinguisher tags amuse me to no end.

If you have ADD like me, check out the Katsu tag at 1m28s.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:43:19 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)

minusbaby: (via bhell13 via tedr via bringtheruckuss)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:44:42 -0400

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Funky life, I been told!

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:20:08 -0400

Funky life, I been told!

Snakes!

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:35:59 -0400

Snakes!