Author’s note: If you have somehow managed neither to see Signs nor learn the ending, there are spoilers ahead. As a Christian watching M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs recently, I quickly noticed that a major theme in the film is whether…
On Sunday, 20 June, the Guardian posted an article titled, ‘Why Modern Art is all in the Mind,‘ reviewing a forthcoming book titled, ‘How Pleasure Works’. The book argues that there is no such thing as pure aesthetic judgment –…
Imagine yourself sitting in a theatre waiting for a play to begin. The lights dim, the curtain is pulled, and the first actors emerge on stage and start to deliver their lines. The first thing you notice is that although…
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A Beautiful House; and the thing to be longed for, I should answer,…
In 1986 Daniel Buren created Les Deux Plateaux (commonly referred to as ‘Buren’s Columns’) in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris. The work, which consists of cylindrical pillars covered in black and white stripes and arranged across a large…
When I lived in Atlanta, I would keep a membership to the High Museum of Art, that way if was ever bored in the city, I could just drop in any time and explore. One of my favorite parts of…
Imagine a large, circular room with several tiers of chairs along its inner walls. In the centre of the room is a large globe on a pedestal. In each chair sits a person looking at the globe and attempting to…
‘There is another danger…that of talking baby language. To see the way some of our best church and cathedral builders decorate their work with nursery emblems, golden stars, chubby Christmas angels, lilies, lambs and shepherds, insipid sculptures and paintings of…
As a result of the global recession, funding for artistic projects, communities, and individuals is being cut. Rather than killing the creative spirit, however, these cuts seem to be spawning creativity in ways to save money in artful ways. For…