David Horvitz is selling stuff to get into Bard. I want the Star Sand from Okinawa!
"If you give me the total of the above (excluding the independent
study fees) I will send you all (except under certain circumstances
which we will discuss) the art-work I make during my graduate school
studies. I just got accepted into the Bard MFA program. It is
expensive. I am poor. If you just buy one semester, you will get the
art made for that semester. If you pay for all three, you will get all
three. This is an edition of 3, one for each semester. Get it while it lasts.
I
will also be accepting small donations by anyone. For every donation I
will send you a unique edition of one art-work on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of
paper. It will be a conceptual piece and the paper will contain
instructions as to how the piece should be carried out. This will only
be for donations $20 or more."
GOTTA LOVE THIS NUTJOB!
Link: DAVID HORVITZ NUTJOB
FROM THE NY TIMES:
From 1997 until her death 10 years later, Dr Anne Adams underwent
periodic brain scans that gave her physicians remarkable insights to
the changes in her brain.
“In 2000, she suddenly had a little
trouble finding words,” her husband said. “Although she was gifted in
mathematics, she could no longer add single digit numbers. She was
aware of what was happening to her. She would stamp her foot in
frustration.”
By then, the circuits in Dr. Adams’s brain had
reorganized. Her left frontal language areas showed atrophy. Meanwhile,
areas in the back of her brain on the right side, devoted to visual and
spatial processing, appeared to have thickened.
When artists
suffer damage to the right posterior brain, they lose the ability to be
creative, Dr. Miller said. Dr. Adams’s story is the opposite. Her case
and others suggest that artists in general exhibit more right posterior
brain dominance. In a healthy brain, these areas help integrate
multisensory perception. Colors, sounds, touch and space are
intertwined in novel ways. But these posterior regions are usually
inhibited by the dominant frontal cortex, he said. When they are
released, creativity emerges.
Dr. Miller has witnessed FTD
patients become gifted in landscape design, piano playing, painting and
other creative arts as their disease progressed.
Dr. Adams
continued to paint until 2004, when she could no longer hold a brush.
Her art, including “An ABC Book of Invertebrates,” a rendering of the
mathematical ratio pi, an image of a migraine aura and other works, is at two Web sites: members.shaw.ca/adms and memory.ucsf.edu/Art/gallery.htm.
Power to your Tchotkes!
Last year everyone was wearing antler horns, skulls, daggers, and birds around their necks, and a lot of jewelry designers seemed to follow suit. Soon the market was bombarded with Urban Outfitter type knockoffs and it was hard to find a unique piece of jewelry without feeling like a sheep drowning in mainstream bauble kitsch. It's a good thing Meredith Kahn started her own line of wonderful jewelry called "Made Her Think". Although you see a lot of imitators that use the same iconography as her ( ie skulls and horns) - her pieces are worth the price and stand out from the rest of those cheapy necklaces that are currently being sold on the street next to stinky incense and fake bags.
Her lovely gothic storybook style website ain't too shabby either!
"The ideal of joy in both life and death underlies the dark allure of
Made Her Think, a prolific and imaginative jewelry collection by
designer Meredith Kahn. Meredith draws upon the mystical energy of
Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration to create feminine, edgy pieces
with a uniquely spiritual quality."
Link: Made Her Think Website
SNAP SNAP SNAP THOSE PHOTOS BABY!
Frank Horvat was born in 1928 in
what was then Italy and is now Croatia. He studied art in Milan and a
meeting in 1951 with Henri Cartier-Bresson decided his fate as a photojournalist.
He traveled the world in the early 50s and sent his work back to Paris
Match, Life and Realities among other magazines. In 1956 he settled
in Paris and began to photograph fashion with a reportage style: real
life situations, ambient lighting and 35mm cameras.
During his long career, Frank Horvat
has contributed to every major magazine and his work has been exhibited
in Paris, London, Prague, Berlin and New York.
In his quarter-century of work for American, British and French Vogue
from 1950 to 1975, Clarke created indelible images of elegance: women
with veiled hats, swan-long necks and stomachs sucked in like
greyhounds as they showed fashions haute and haughty. "But he never
made photographic effects to the detriment of women," says Vogue's
Susan Train, who worked with the photographer as jet travel brought
exotic locations into fashion.
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