Weekend Miscellany

Marsha Pels, Installation view, Image via: Schroeder Romero

Marsha Pels’ Dead Mother Dead Cowboy at Schroeder Romero isn’t really my bag — too many candles and skulls for my taste — but it gets a nod regardless, due to the above sculpture. I’m not sure I like that one either, but I don’t think you can cast a tomb like that, wrap it in fur, adorn it with a handbag, and not have a sense of humor. As my friend aptly decreed earlier this week, “That sculpture is bitch’n”.

Alison Armstrong presents a myriad of philosophical thoughts on teaching through the course of her book review on Why Art Can Not Be Taught by James Elkins, a must read for art professors. Although most people I know don’t subscribe to this line of thought, I do believe creativity can be learned. I’ll have more thoughts on this next week as it’s a sticky topic and I’m out of the office most of today (hello slow comment moderation.)

Graffiti spotted in a woman’s bathroom in Toronto: So, I want to relive my past glory, pretend I’m 19 again, and truthfully believe that art shows and shit are mind blowingly awesome like they were once upon a time. Instead of just getting drunk. Via: Mooney on Theatre.

Admittedly I too miss the excitement I felt about all art. But not too much. Like most people my early 20′s were defined by remarkably stupid behavior.

http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
It can be learned, just not in schools. Life is our teacher, gotta have one first. Academia is clinical, protected, and asks silly questions that have noting to do with life. And so we have Contemporary Art.
Art collegia delenda est
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
It can be learned, just not in schools. Life is our teacher, gotta have one first. Academia is clinical, protected, and asks silly questions that have noting to do with life. And so we have Contemporary Art.
Art collegia delenda est
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
It can be learned, just not in schools. Life is our teacher, gotta have one first. Academia is clinical, protected, and asks silly questions that have noting to do with life. And so we have Contemporary Art.
Art collegia delenda est
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
It can be learned, just not in schools. Life is our teacher, gotta have one first. Academia is clinical, protected, and asks silly questions that have noting to do with life. And so we have Contemporary Art.
Art collegia delenda est
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/ L.M.
Creativity can’t be taught by rote, but it can be introduced, the results can be shown to people and underlying structures, critical bumph, & polite assumptions can be observed, then stripped away to show that something marvelous and mysterious is still left behind. (if not, the work bores me anyway)
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/ L.M.
Creativity can’t be taught by rote, but it can be introduced, the results can be shown to people and underlying structures, critical bumph, & polite assumptions can be observed, then stripped away to show that something marvelous and mysterious is still left behind. (if not, the work bores me anyway)
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/ L.M.
Creativity can’t be taught by rote, but it can be introduced, the results can be shown to people and underlying structures, critical bumph, & polite assumptions can be observed, then stripped away to show that something marvelous and mysterious is still left behind. (if not, the work bores me anyway)
http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin
I find that a lot of people’s lives are clinical and protected, and that school can be (potentially) a place to broaden, inform, and challenge students’ creativity. The alternative so often translates into a blase, arrogant, anti-intellectual attitude where so-called “life experience” is really just solipsism run amok.
http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin
I find that a lot of people’s lives are clinical and protected, and that school can be (potentially) a place to broaden, inform, and challenge students’ creativity. The alternative so often translates into a blase, arrogant, anti-intellectual attitude where so-called “life experience” is really just solipsism run amok.
http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin
I find that a lot of people’s lives are clinical and protected, and that school can be (potentially) a place to broaden, inform, and challenge students’ creativity. The alternative so often translates into a blase, arrogant, anti-intellectual attitude where so-called “life experience” is really just solipsism run amok.
http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin
I find that a lot of people’s lives are clinical and protected, and that school can be (potentially) a place to broaden, inform, and challenge students’ creativity. The alternative so often translates into a blase, arrogant, anti-intellectual attitude where so-called “life experience” is really just solipsism run amok.
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
Damn, whats wrong with calling art schools clinical and protected, they are. There is no creativity in such places, sheltered from the real world, just the illusion of such, so they can take your money. Its a business first.
Art collegia delenda est
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
Damn, whats wrong with calling art schools clinical and protected, they are. There is no creativity in such places, sheltered from the real world, just the illusion of such, so they can take your money. Its a business first.
Art collegia delenda est
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
Damn, whats wrong with calling art schools clinical and protected, they are. There is no creativity in such places, sheltered from the real world, just the illusion of such, so they can take your money. Its a business first.
Art collegia delenda est
Art Fag City
Donald the post has nothing to do with art schools. Your other comments have not been approved because they have nothing to do with the topic discussed. Stay focused if you want to participate.
Art Fag City
Donald the post has nothing to do with art schools. Your other comments have not been approved because they have nothing to do with the topic discussed. Stay focused if you want to participate.
Art Fag City
Donald the post has nothing to do with art schools. Your other comments have not been approved because they have nothing to do with the topic discussed. Stay focused if you want to participate.
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
Of course it does, the title of the book you site is Art cannot be taught. TEACHING, thats school. You brought it up, and the naive one did too. THATS on topic. Just not what some want to hear. Truth ahs that effect.
Art collegia delenda est
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
Of course it does, the title of the book you site is Art cannot be taught. TEACHING, thats school. You brought it up, and the naive one did too. THATS on topic. Just not what some want to hear. Truth ahs that effect.
Art collegia delenda est
Art Fag City
You’re right – I forgot about that blurb on why art can not be taught.
Art Fag City
You’re right – I forgot about that blurb on why art can not be taught.
Art Fag City
You’re right – I forgot about that blurb on why art can not be taught.
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
See, thats why i like your site, you can take a joke, a rare ability these days, gotta be intelligent to see humor in life. And admit mistakes. Thanks, i have made a few in my time too.
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
See, thats why i like your site, you can take a joke, a rare ability these days, gotta be intelligent to see humor in life. And admit mistakes. Thanks, i have made a few in my time too.
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
See, thats why i like your site, you can take a joke, a rare ability these days, gotta be intelligent to see humor in life. And admit mistakes. Thanks, i have made a few in my time too.
http://dfimagery.com Donald Frazell
See, thats why i like your site, you can take a joke, a rare ability these days, gotta be intelligent to see humor in life. And admit mistakes. Thanks, i have made a few in my time too.