By: KB Why: With all of the controversy surrounding illegal immigration and immigration reform, it’s important for Mexican art and culture to be part of the conversation. From the National Gallery of Art film series webpage: “GenMex: A New Generation ...
While we might think of pitch, melody, and harmony as traditionally musical elements, non-musical elements and objects also have a place in contemporary improvised music. I play the double bass, and experiment with space, or musical silences filled by ambient ...
“The human condition, even suffering and pain, can shift with the addition of creative energy. When there is no place to turn and the pain seems overwhelming, creativity can redeem that pain.”
“Mann works his ideas out with sketches, some of which are pinned to the wall of his studio. The sketches look like animation cells in their early stages and seem to be drawn to scale.”
“….an artist’s signature can have a great deal of significance. On a work of art, it establishes originality, even when an unsigned work has all the stylistic and technical characteristics of that artist’s hand.”
Saying that a current band of pre-tweens is the “best new punk band” is a bit like asserting that the “best new Impressionist painter” is an American. It’s neither here nor there because there are no new Impressionist painters…
“Same-sex marriage makes for stronger families and happier people overall.”
“We didn’t speak of his early pieces such as Package 1961, where the fabric is linked to a lack of freedom, of being torn or uprooted from everyday life. Perhaps if I speak to him again, I’ll ask him what’s inside.”
“Street artists have stepped up recently in the campaign to get DC a vote.”
Artist Chuck Close was interviewed on the comic news show The Colbert Report on Thursday, August 12, 2010
