New Russian art, AD 1909

These color photographs were all taken in the Russian Empire between 1909 and 1918.Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer born in 1863. After studying chemistry with Mendeleev and later with Adolf Miethe - one of the crucial figures in the invention of color...

Lori McNamara

I am the leader of the Plein Air Painters of the Treasure Coast. I paint mainly Florida landscapes using a palette knife so they have lots of texture.

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Something Else / Asger Carlsen

"You're (really) something!" in Polish is "Ty to jesteś!"*, meaning literally "You are the one that is!".This seems more logical than the English expression - your existence is more, your [way of] being is the right one. Yet there is, hidden within this phrase, a sense...

Moving/Making/Growing

Start off with something nice.Something delicate, subtle, yet not too sharp, just soft enough to create the sensation of closeness. Don't go crazy, don't look for the ambitious project. Focus on this line. This spot. This shape. Something ridiculously precious for the little...

FC Barcelona and the shift of aesthetic paradigms

Apparently the manager of FC Barelona, the young Josep Guardiola, prepared this film for his players before the finale against Manchester United. And before the game, instead of making the classic motivational speech, he showed them the film. And said nothing afterwards. If I'm posting this on the New...

Aliens in Brussels - Althamer's "Common Task"

On June 4, 1989, Poland held the first (partly) free elections of the so-called Eastern Block.It was the first time since WW2 that opposition parties could legally participate in the political process, and the result - a smashing success of the opposition - was the end...

Simple Stories

David Lynch's new project, Interview Project, is assumingly as simple as it gets: travel across the US. Interview people.Here is the first episode.First impressions? It's... nice. Potentially fascinating. Not quite yet. For the moment, it's too early to say.This might seem...