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Monday, May 2, 2022

Art Wars

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:31 pm

"Moon Knight" will conclude at 3 AM ET Wednesday.

Related art  —

Related cinematic art — ("Tomb Raider," 2018) —

An image that some — perhaps even Uncle Walt himself —
might prefer to the above depiction of Lara Croft —

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

ART WARS for the Church of the Holy Hubcap

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:34 pm

Monday, September 9, 2019

ART WARS at Harvard: The Wertham Professorship

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:38 pm

See as well an obituary for Mrs. Wertham from 1987.

Related art —

Friday, July 11, 2014

Spiegel-Spiel des Gevierts

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM 

See Cube Symbology.

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube

Da hats ein Eck 

For further details, search the Web for "Wertham Professor" + Eck.

Monday, June 3, 2019

Art Wars for Spaceheads

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:52 pm

From a post of May 23

From the annals of Space Fleet

See as well the previous post.

Friday, September 28, 2018

ART WARS Midrash

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

"When times are mysterious
Serious numbers
Will always be heard."
— Paul Simon,
"When Numbers Get Serious"

"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of
Pontius Pilate's unanswered question 'What is truth?'"

— H. S. M. Coxeter, introduction to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks
on the "story theory" of truth as opposed to the "diamond theory"
of truth in The Non-Euclidean Revolution  (1987)

The deaths of Roth and Grünbaum on September 14th,
The Feast of the Holy Cross, along with Douthat's column
today titled "Only the Truth Can Save Us Now," suggest a
review of

Elements of Number Theory, by Vinogradov .

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

ART WARS: Poetry for Drama Queens

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:08 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180808-Cosima_drank_the_purple_kool-aid-500w.jpg

Thursday, June 7, 2018

ART WARS for Hanna and Her Sisters

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:38 pm

In memory of David Douglas Duncan

"Marissa, we picked up an unencrypted signal
below the Arctic Circle." — Hanna  (2011)

Monday, February 12, 2018

Art Wars

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:55 am

'In the end the space itself is the star'— Gia Kourlas

See also Krauss Cross.

Saturday, April 1, 2017

ART WARS Koan*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:09 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110301-Inception256w.jpg

Show me all  the blueprints.”
— Howard Hughes, according to Hollywood

From an old Dick Tracy strip —

This journal in April 2006

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Cleaning out her studio, Oslo artist Josefine Lyche 
has found some frames from an old art-school audition video —

(Click to enlarge.)

      * Search for "st.+peter"+eve+adam+"first+words"

Monday, December 19, 2016

ART WARS

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:25 pm

See also all posts now tagged Memory, History, Geometry.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

ART WARS continued…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 pm

"J'adoube."

Monday, July 18, 2016

ART WARS: Magic Circles

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:01 am

An artist mentioned in  a NY Times  obituary  this morning —

(Click for the source.)

I prefer some not-so-magic circles —

Primitive roots modulo 17 and a related figure

Click for related posts tagged root circle.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Art Wars

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:45 am

Wil S. Hylton today in the online New York Times

"It seems to me now, with greater reflection,
that the value of experiencing another person’s art
is not merely the work itself, but the opportunity
it presents to connect with the interior impulse of another.
The arts occupy a vanishing space in modern life:
They offer one of the last lingering places to seek out
empathy for its own sake, and to the extent that
an artist’s work is frustrating or difficult or awful,
you could say this allows greater opportunity to try to
meet it. I am not saying there is no room for discriminating 
taste and judgment, just that there is also, I think,
this other portal through which to experience creative work
and to access a different kind of beauty, which might be
called communion."

Or damnation.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

ART WARS: The Story of Four

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 am

The title is a reference to the Chicago character named "Four"
in Veronica Roth's Divergent  series.

"In July 2014, Roth revealed that she initially wrote 
Divergent  from Four's point of view . . . ." — Wikipedia

Other Chicago-related stories — "Raiders of the Lost Code
(on the recent murder-suicide of two Chicago Jungians)
and the following —

See also Jungian narrative art in

https://redice.tv/news/
on-the-nature-of-four-jung-s-quarternity-mandalas-the-stone-and-the-self
.

Friday, May 6, 2016

ART WARS continues…

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

"Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

From this journal on Orthodox Good Friday, 2016,
an image from New Scientist  on St. Andrew's Day, 2015 —

From an old Dick Tracy strip —

See also meditations from this year's un -Orthodox Good Friday
in a Tennessee weblog and in this  journal

" There is a pleasantly discursive treatment 
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’ ”

— Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeau’s
     The Non-Euclidean Revolution

Monday, December 28, 2015

ART WARS Continues

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Combining two headlines from this morning’s
New York Times  and Washington Post , we have

Deceptively Simple Geometries
on a Bold Scale

     Voilà —

Click image for details.

More generally, see
Boole vs. Galois.

Monday, December 21, 2015

ART WARS (continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 am

Today in History —

"On December 21, 1937, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'
premiered to a record-breaking audience at the Carthay Circle
Theatre in Los Angeles."

Related material: Today's previous post and the Red Book.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Art Wars

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:17 pm

In memory of art dealer Leslie Waddington, who
reportedly died at 81 on St. Andrew's Day, 2015, 
a search for "Terry Frost" in this journal.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

ART WARS continued

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:29 pm

The previous post mentioned a new mobile, "Triangle Constellation,"
commissioned for the Harvard Art Museums.

Related material (click to enlarge) —

The above review is of an exhibition by the "Constellation" artist,
Carlos Amorales, that opened on Sept. 26, 2008 — "just in time for
Halloween and the Day of the Dead."

See also this  journal on that date.

Friday, June 6, 2014

ART WARS: Fundamentals of Design

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:15 pm

Thanks to the Museum of Modern Art for pointing out
a new emphasis on design  in U.S. Army Field Manual 5-0.
MoMA supplies a link to an article from May 3, 2010:

Design Thinking Comes to the U.S. Army.

An excerpt from the manual:

An approach to this text by Harvard's legendary "unreliable reader"—

The Unreliable Narrator meets The Unreliable Reader
Aaron Diaz at Dresden Codak

"The risks multiply, especially when a problem involves 26 March 2010…."

Thursday, May 1, 2014

ART WARS

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:44 am

(Continued from Tuesday morning)

IMAGE- Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

… Or what’s a heaven for?

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Art Wars

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

For the late Allen E. Puckett, Hughes Aircraft engineer and CEO,
who reportedly died at 94 on March 31 (the birthday of René Descartes) —

Monday, March 31, 2014

Art Wars for Coxeter

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:30 pm

Geometer H. S. M. Coxeter died on this date in 2003.

This evening’s daily number from the Keystone state:   822.

IMAGE- Review of 'Geometry of the I Ching'

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Art Wars

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 pm

Frederick Hart’s 1982 sculpture “Ex Nihilo” for Washington’s National Cathedral—

Related material — Tom Wolfe on Frederick Hart, said to have been
published in The New York Times Magazine  of Sunday, Jan. 2, 2000—

In 1982, Ex Nihilo  was unveiled in a dedication ceremony. The next day, Hart scanned the newspapers for reviews… The Washington PostThe New York Times… nothing… nothing the next day, either… nor the next week… nor the week after that. The one mention of any sort was an obiter dictum in The Post ‘s Style (read: Women’s) section indicating that the west facade of the cathedral now had some new but earnestly traditional (read: old-fashioned) decoration. So Hart started monitoring the art magazines. Months went by… nothing. It reached the point that he began yearning for a single paragraph by an art critic who would say how much he loathed Ex Nihilo… anything, anything at all!… to prove there was someone out there in the art world who in some way, however slightly or rudely, cared.

The truth was, no one did, not in the least. Ex Nihilo  never got ex nihilo  simply because art worldlings refused to see it.

Art worldings are one thing, Hollywood another.

Al Pacino’s moving wall sculpture in “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997)—

“After the film’s initial release, sculptor Frederick Hart sued Warner Bros.
claiming that a large sculpture prominently featured in the film
(on the wall of Al Pacino’s penthouse apartment) is an unauthorized copy
of his work ‘Ex Nihilo,’ displayed at the entrance of Washington’s Episcopal
National Cathedral.” — IMDb

Thursday, March 6, 2014

ART WARS (continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:04 pm

See “But is it Art?,” linked to here and here

Saturday, February 1, 2014

ART WARS (continued)

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 pm

A sequel to Friday afternoon's Diamond Star

Diamond Star —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110905-StellaOctangulaView.jpg

Log24 on January 7, 2012 —

A doodle from this year's [2012’s]  Feast of the Epiphany

http://www.log24.com/log/pix12/120106-CathyHull-Hillman-Detail.jpg

A doodle based on today's previous post and on
a post for Twelfth Night, 2003

IMAGE- Quilt blocks- Devil's Claws and Yankee Puzzle

IMAGE- 'Yankee Doodle went to London' with musical notes

Context — All posts tagged "Eden."

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

ART WARS

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

Continued from Pensée  (Feb. 10, 2012).*

Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker  of Dec. 2, 2013—

" When one speaks of Zwirner the gallerist, one is speaking
as much of a handful of women in their forties who have been
with the gallery fifteen or more years. Zwirner has made them
partners, meaning, he says, that they 'will participate in profits
as the gallery does well.' They are Angela Choon, who runs the
London gallery; Hanna Schouwink, from Holland; Bellatrix Hubert,
from France; and Kristine Bell, from outside Buffalo. Seeing them
all together, at an opening or a dinner, brings to mind David
Carradine’s gang of glamorous assassins in 'Kill Bill.' " 

See also the previous post, on An Object of Beauty.

* For some related art, see Square Round.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

ART WARS:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 pm

The Mitgang Menu

Related material: This morning's 6 AM post and Wiener News.

Update of 3:29 PM:

From Herbert Mitgang's New York Times  
obituary of Cleanth Brooks

"The New Critics advocated close reading of literary texts
and detailed analysis, concentrating on semantics, meter,
imagery, metaphor and symbol as well as references to
history, biography and cultural background."

Monday, September 9, 2013

ART WARS Midrash

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:48 pm

Poster shown here last night

IMAGE- Poster for film 'MAX'- 'Art + Politics = Power'

Politics this afternoon —

IMAGE- News: Norway's center-right heads for big win.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

ART WARS

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:00 am

(Continued from 24 hours ago and from May 9, 2012)

Quoted 24 hours ago in this journal—

Remark by Aldous Huxley on an artist's work:

"All the turmoil, all the emotions of the scenes
have been digested by the mind into a
grave intellectual whole."

Quoted in a video uploaded on May 9, 2012:

Norway Toilet Scene
IMAGE- Privy scene from 'Headhunters'

Norway dance (as interpreted by an American)

IMAGE- 'The geometry of the dance' is that of a tetrahedron, according to Peter Pesic

I prefer a different, Norwegian, interpretation of "the dance of four."

Related material: The clash between square and tetrahedral versions of PG(3,2).

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