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understanding the real business of content

Leading twentieth-century artist Yves Klein helped to generate enormous growth in art. His influence is readily apparent in major recent works of contemporary fine art such as Maximillian Miles’ sensuous and provocative Masterwork in Bluish. Klein’s work, however, has much broader importance. Klein pioneered marketing “zones of immaterial pictorial sensibility” — what media businesspersons today … Continue reading understanding the real business of content

real, sacred, natural passion: 17th-century Spanish art

The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700, a traveling exhibition in 2010, shows the sensuous power of sacred, realistic art. … Read the post real, sacred, natural passion: 17th-century Spanish art

exhibiting creative commons

Don’t look for a good product. Seek a creative space. G-40: The Summit, in Crystal City, VA, through the end of March, exhibits a collective greater than its individual pieces, a creative space.

transversal poetics confronts modern art

The Corkinhorn Gallery’s current exhibition, Painting Transversally, rides the frontiers of literary criticism and literary theory to raise profound questions for modern art. Painting Traversally violently interrogates modern arts’ failure to become post-modern. It complicates the relationship between art object and art consumer and implicates mass media and corporate America in the symbolic commercialization and … Continue reading transversal poetics confronts modern art

Sukeyasu Shiba's expansive inspiration

Imagine plucking a lute slowly and deliberately. The impulse could arise from emotions within yourself. But possibilities for inspiration other than the self also exist. Sukeyasu Shiba’s Gagaku Universe, performed this past Wednesday evening by the Reigakusha Gagaku Ensemble at the Freer Gallery, drew inspiration from within and from without, from relations with objects and … Continue reading Sukeyasu Shiba's expansive inspiration