Piatigorsky’s *Cellist* autobiography
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Art
Upcoming lecture in Hong Kong
On Sunday, July 26, I’ll be giving a talk at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. My topic is “The Next Revolution in Art.” An excerpt from the opening of my talk: “Art is a perennial human desire. We need and hunger for stories, images, and sounds that are unique, beautiful, self-affirming, and/or profound. We love
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Michael Pearce on the re-emergence of representational art
Michael Pearce is the author of the recent Art in the Age of Emergence, for which I wrote this blurb: “Michael Pearce is that rare phenomenon — a practicing artist who knows art from the inside and an intellectual versed in what the cognitive sciences teach us about why we make art. This book —
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Philosophy as a bunch of jibjab
A commentator at my site objects to my discussion of Existentialism and the meaning of life: “In all honesty this is just a bunch of JibJab with really no actual true meaning funny how people waste years and thousands studying this irrelevant b***** go out side be outdoors live a little bit” The Urban Dictionary
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O artista mais importante do nosso século
O tema de uma pesquisa recente entre principais artistas e críticos de arte de nossa geração tratou de quem foi o artista mais influente do século XX. Quem venceu? Se você chutou Pablo Picasso — boa tentativa, mas ele ficou em segundo. Antes de identificarmos o vencedor, vamos refletir sobre a importância do 1º lugar
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Aristotle at Pixar Animation Studios
A striking quotation about Aristotle’s Poetics and its contemporary relevance. Pixar Animation Studios is one the great technical and financial successes in the movie industry. Early in its development, two individuals who were to be instrumental to that success, John Lasseter and Pete Docter, knew that story-telling and not just techical wizardry was essential to
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Pairing: Van Gogh’s and Wyeth’s boots
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The Most Important Artist of the Century [new The Good Life column]
The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “A survey asked our generation’s leading artists and critics to identify the most influential artist of the twentieth century. Who won? If you guessed Pablo Picasso — nice try, but he came in second. “Before identifying the survey’s winner, let’s ask why it matters who topped the
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