Apparently, a scrambled Rubik’s cube can be solved in 26 moves or less and certainly on average, under 55 manipulations of the standard 3x3x3 cube. Invented in 1974, Erno Rubik’s 3d mechanical puzzle has also been the source of an art sub-culture called Rubik’s cube art. It could be regarded as Rubikcubism, Cubestraction, or simply [...]
She was compared to French painter Henri Rousseau and Breughel. It was comfort art. In her paintings there is no despair, unhappiness, or aging, yet this unrealistic view of life is presented with remarkable power. Grandma Moses ( Anna May Robertson Moses 1860-1961) invented a unique style of art, categorized as ”folk” yet her paintings [...]
He was left handed and wrote from left to right. The word in Latin for left is ”Sinister”. His antagonism towards the Church and their mutual distrust of Leonardo are deep rooted, a Ying and Yang of conservatism vs. creativity. A century before telescopes, Leonardo claimed that the earth was not the center of the [...]
The Recording Academy has decided to de-list Polka music by eliminating the polka album of the year award. Deemed not relevent in the current musical landscape, it nonetheless is a valid and artistic form of musical expression. Much like reggae music, it is international and the variety of styles, tempos, beats, instruments employed, and arrangements [...]
What musicologist and culture critic Griel Marcus termed ”the old weird America” , an invisible republic that lingers in the background and is interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. Bob Dylan and The Band’s ‘‘The Basement Tapes” was recorded, yet not released, two years before the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Recorded in 1967 [...]
Typewriter sculptures in figurative forms by Jeremy Mayer seem to be complementary to the kinetic art and metamechanics of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely ( 1925-1991 ). Tinguely was part of the ”Nouveau Realisme” which aimed at a reassessment of artistic form and material. Like Tinguely, Mayers sculptures seem caricatures of the utilitarian mechanical world and [...]
No pretension about social change, art and culture.A certain cynicism for Liberalism. In a way its refreshing to see the detachment from the zeitgeist of the moment, the ”noise” that distracts. Artie Kornfeld was essentially a street-wise Brooklyn boy from lower-middle class origins who didn’t need an Ivy League diploma to understand the mechanics of [...]
Whether so called agents of change and ”radicals” of the Woodstock generation were lulled into a state of passiveness and psuedo individualization by pop culture seems probable.The illusion and reality of Woodstock seemed opposed to each other. A purported attack on middle class culture and simultaneous glorification of its values. on the one hand, a [...]
It was forty years ago today Sergeant Pepper told the band to play…..Did Woodstock change anything? The hyperbole was three days that changed the world at the Woodstock Music And Arts Festival…and the messiah will come again. In retrospect, Woodstock seemed more a diversion. If it didn’t exist it would have to be created. Vietnam [...]
Houston…Houston do you hear me? He packed an easel, some paint , brushes and a couple canvases before boarding the Apollo 12 spacecraft on a November 1969 mission in which he walked on the lunar surface of the moon. He needed a 240,000 mile trip to the earth’s moon to be driven to the edge [...]
