Archive for the ‘Art & Design’ Category
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Most people are usually a bit confused when they look at Belgian artist René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images for the first time. The painting is of a simple smoking pipe with the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (”This is not a pipe”) written below it. (more…)
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
In the vernacular of furniture, the chair is the apparatus that forms the intimate bond between the individual and the room, as the great architect and designer Eero Saarinen no doubt observed. A chair may only be empty space until someone sits in it (more…)
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
“I am not complete”, says Edward in Tim Burton’s movie Edward Scissorshands. This quote captures the essence of most of Burton’s characters. (more…)
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
If you don’t own a pair yourself, you probably know someone who does. That probably has something to do with the fact that over 750 million have been sold. Their look is unmistakable: a simplistic combination of cheap canvas and rubber (more…)
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
New York is a city of islands: Manhattan, Roosevelt, Governors and Staten, not to mention Long Island, which is anchored on the west end by Queens and Brooklyn. In fact, the Bronx is the only borough attached to the mainland. (more…)
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Setting up an easel at concerts and inviting people to watch as you paint (or sculpt, or arrange flowers, or whatever art form you do that is more typically hidden from prospective audiences) is…different. (more…)
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
This year, the hottest toy isn’t a string rag doll like those that ancient Egyptian kids played with or a button-collecting game popular with kids of the Middle Ages. This Christmas, the hottest toy on every kid’s list is a robotic hamster. (more…)
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
In a scene from Martin Scorsese’s film about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home Joan Baez laughs while telling the story of the master songwriter composing lyrics. Baez says that Dylan told her that some day scholars will explain what these words mean, (more…)
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