Amirah
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Research culminates in some output . Research isn’t just about collecting references and evidence and the ideas of other people. It isn’t even about synthesizing them in an interesting way. Research is about advancing new arguments and ideas in some form—typically a conference presentation, paper, book, etc.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Red-chip art comes in many guises, but certain visual patterns predominate: super-flat cartoons, a street art/graffiti aesthetic, and multi-colored chrome. A crypto component is always welcome.
Red-chip collectors include mysteriously affluent millennials who like artworks that look like toys, newly wealthy techies that the traditional art world has
... See moreArt feels like an expression of creativity for the sake of beauty or emotion whereas content can do that as a secondary purpose but usually has a primary function - financial, educational, visibility etc
X. It’s what’s happening
To paraphrase contemporary artist Tania Bruguera, 'art' —if we dare attempt to define it-might be characterized by its basic instability. • Or, as the artist and writer Jon Thompson puts it, for him producing an artwork is 'a shot in the dark'. 6 'Art' occurs when an artist (or group) brings together aset of materials (or circumstances) and the
... See moreIn the essay "Labor, Work, Action", Arendt writes “In the sphere of fabrication itself, there is only one kind of object to which the unending chain of means and ends does not apply, and this is the work of art, the most useless and, at the same time, the most durable thing human hands can produce”.
When I first read this I baulked at the sentiment... See more
When I first read this I baulked at the sentiment... See more
nathanbeck.eu • A Wasted Life
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
—Leonard Bernstein
Writer J. G. Ballard once told Obrist that he should call what he does “junction-making,” building intersections between different artists and ideas.
Elephant Magazine - Artists Led Arts Coverage
"Ar" in common parlance has a double meaning: It designates creative activity in general and represents work that circulates within the specific tradition and set of institutions of the visual arts; thus, something can be "art" (that is, creative) but not be "Art" (that is, not fit within the visual arts sphere), or something can be "Art" (that is,
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