Knowledge and technique used to be closely guarded secrets. Admission to the guild was reserved for a few, and crafts like typesetting, plumbing and medicine were off limits to most folks. One of the reasons for the explosion in productivity and innovation in the last century
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly
Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space.
Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers.
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War.
The work was part of an exhibition exploring women's roles in faith and tradition.
Blame the clients. And blame the conditions. But then, you’re on the hook to get better tools, find better clients and work in better conditions. It’s not convenient, but it’s possible. If it’s not worth the effort, we can simply accept what we’ve chosen and get back to work.