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Is it real or is it…?
Australian artist Jeremy Geddes creates oil paintings that are astonishingly– dangerously– counterintuitive, at the same time that they’re astoundingly photo-realistic. Geddes’ describes his process...
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Preparing a meal that C.P. Snow would have enjoyed…
source John Lanchester writes: When Ferran Adrià, the Spanish maestro who is undisputedly the most influential chef of the last two decades, gave up cooking at his restaurant El Bulli, he announced...
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“What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum!”*…
From our friends at Coudal Partners (c.f. here, here, and here), The Museum of Online Museums… Here, you will find links from our archives to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of...
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them...
From… I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. —James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young...
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“In economics, the majority is always wrong”*…
“Grumpy Cat,” whose image has flown across the internet– and graced the front page of the Wall Street Journal One may imagine that economics has little bearing on the more frivolous frontiers of...
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“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”*…
Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger has created a series of rings that are sized to show the fluctuating price of gold over the past five decades. Assay the results here and here. * Geoffrey...
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“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train”*…
As part of its ongoing overhaul, the New York Public Library has installed a very clever conveyer train that moves research materials from the expanded Milstein Stacks underneath Bryant Park to the...
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“I have a sweater obsession, I guess”*…
More at: “This guy makes sweaters of places and then takes pictures of himself wearing the sweaters at those places.” * Drake ### As we perl one, knit two, we might send challenging birthday...
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“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything...
“Let’s Put Out the Light and Rekindle the Fire!,” from La Silhouette, June 24, 1830 The poet Charles Baudelaire greatly admired the graphic arts, writing several essays about the major...
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“Why should things be easy to understand?”*…
The universe is kind of an impossible object. It has an inside but no outside; it’s a one-sided coin. This Möbius architecture presents a unique challenge for cosmologists, who find themselves in...
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic”*…
A “Pack Horse Librarian” returning for a new supply of books The Pack Horse Library initiative, which sent librarians deep into Appalachia, was one of the New Deal’s most unique plans. The project,...
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“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint”*…
Studies of various types of water bird, swimming and diving among river weed. This work seems to have been intended as a kind of picture thesaurus. One of the world’s most important collections of art...
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“All familiar things can open into strange worlds”*…
Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958; Whitney Museum of Art A thoughtful consideration of a modern master… In the summer of 1953, after a stint in the army, Jasper Johns, aged 23, moved back to New York...
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“Everything we see hides another thing”*…
Son of Man No artist more perfectly anticipated the banal strangeness of life in the twenty-first century than Rene Magritte… René François Ghislain Magritte: born 1898, died 1967; noted fan of bowler...
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“The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen”*…
Eric Oglander Art without intent… The Found Object Show captures things that are out of control. Happenstance hijacked their original roles. Time blotted out their former significance. As the decades...
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“The Surrealist tradition in all these arts is united by the idea of...
California-based artist Bill Domonkos takes old photos and footage and turns them into surreal, witty GIF mash-ups. Flashbak reports… As he says of his multimedia collages: I experiment by combining,...
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“The imaginary is what tends to become real”*…
Editorial note: your correspondent will be off the grid tomorrow, so (Roughly) Daily will be in “roughly” mode; “daily” service should begin again on Monday. Surrealism took a hit in the later 20th...
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