Leonardo was the kind of person we have come to call a “genius.” But he had trouble focusing for long periods on a single project. After he solved its conceptual problems, Leonardo lost interest until someone forced his hand. Even then, Leonardo often became a perfectionist about details that no one else could see, and [...]
On day two of the Yves Saint Laurent auction there was further proof that the financial crisis doesn’t appear to be keeping people from spending tens of millions of dollars for pieces of the St. Laurent collection. A collector shelled out $28,341,909 for a chair today. Yes, a chair. The estimate for the piece was between [...]
HIDDEN IN THE SHADOW OF THE MASTER:
The Model- Wives
of Cézanne,
Monet, and Rodin.
By Ruth Butler.
Yale Univ. Press.
354 pp. $35
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master is Ruth Butler’s masterfully researched examination of the lives of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret, the three women who mod eled for, bore sons to, lived in poverty with, and [...]
Horace “Woody” Brock…. read mathematical economics and political philosophy at Princeton (he has five degrees in all) and is the founder and president of Strategic Economic Decisions Inc., a think tank specializing in applying the economics of uncertainty to forecasting and risk assessment…. He believes he has cracked the secret of beautiful design. He even has equations and [...]
The world may be embroiled in a crippling credit crisis, but that didn’t stop collectors from paying record prices at what Christie’s is calling the “sale of the century.” The auction house brought in $262 million in its first night of the three day sale of Yves Saint Laurent and partner Pierre Berge’s 733-piece art [...]
I absolutely loved this animated film, Kunstbar, about cocktails inspired by artists when I saw it a couple of years back.
Recently, I found it again and so I hope you enjoy it.
The “Polygon Playground” is a large scale interactive lounge object. It offers room for up to 40 persons at a time to walk, sit and explore its multifaceted surfaces. Gradient ramps guide to the top plateau or offer space to sit and rest. The installation features a software aided 3D surface projection system to cover [...]
Red Chair is a video - light - projection - installation by Teemu Määttänen. Simple and beautiful.
Some music, some paper, some light and LOTS and LOTS of creative imagination. Enjoy “Mykenos” by Sean Peckhnold whose website is Grandchildren.com.
Gustavo Dudamel is the new Musical Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He had performed miracles in Venezuela with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. The youth orchestra programs in Venezuela involve more young people than the soccer programs there, and one reason has to be the enchanting, charismatic Gustavo Dudamel. Lots of his performances are [...]