Art becomes political the moment culture places meaning on what it sees or hears or reads, and politics requires some measure of creative work when it tries to synthesize civic strategies into cogent messages.
Read MoreIN THE ART UNIVERSE THERE’S SUDDENLY A NEW SUPERNOVA
A recent move by the famedMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is having the effect of opening opportunities that will be fabulously valuable to all of those who simply cannot expect to travel the globe just to see paintings and sculpture.
Read MoreSOMEWHERE IN NEW MEXICO THE FIRST ASTRONAUT TO MARS LEARNS ALGEBRA
Creativity takes a gutsy, tireless person to see something in the intangible spaces between us, something you can’t touch or easily characterize.
Read MoreA CHILDREN’S STORY
Childhood depends on creative sparks. The process of invention is the process of discovery, which is another way of saying that invention often yields growth.
Read MoreYOUTH OBSESSION
Fleeting youth is the thing we all want, even if we’re pleased to be finally old enough to feel a little more stable.
Read MoreCHEERING THE DEATHS OF ANONYMOUS SOLDIERS PLAYED BY EXTRAS
It’s not too far of a stretch to say that “good” behavior, with all of the flexible, fungible, subjective aspects that term connotes, has become the cultural anomaly outside of our fictions.
Read MoreBIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, MORE!
More media does not mean better media. The ubiquity of distribution and ease of endless consumption is dulling the cultural palette.
Read MoreAGENTS PROVOCATEUR
Rarely do ideas survive for long if they’re not worthy. But just because some expressions have been perceived as shocking does not automatically make them irrelevant or useless. In fact, provocations in creative thought are not only natural but necessary.
Read MoreUNCONSTRAINED BY FACTS
Without a desire to examine the surrounding world—without intense curiosity about how things might look or sound or be told to others—people don’t generally feel powerful urges to create.
Read MoreONE LEAF AT A TIME
The next time you’re working on a project requiring many hands to complete, be sure to introduce yourself to the person making coffee with as much generosity as you introduce yourself to the top dogs on the team. The sum total of the effort requires the sum total of all involved.
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