Continued from Monday
“This is a chapel
of mischance;
ill luck betide it, ’tis
the cursedest kirk
that ever I came in!”
Philip Kennicott on
Kirk Varnedoe in
The Washington Post:
“Varnedoe’s lectures were
ultimately about faith,
about his faith in
the power of abstraction,
and abstraction as a kind of
anti-religious faith in itself….”
Kennicott’s remarks were
on Sunday, May 18, 2003.
They were subtitled
“Closing the Circle
on Abstract Art.”
Also on Sunday, May 18, 2003:
“Will the circle be unbroken?
As if some southern congregation
is praying we will come to understand.”
Princeton University Press:
See also
Parmiggiani’s
Giordano Bruno —
Dürer’s Melencolia I —
and Log24 entries
of May 19-22, 2009,
ending with
“Steiner System” —
George Steiner on chess
(see yesterday morning):
“Allegoric associations of death with chess are perennial….”
Yes, they are.
April is Math Awareness Month.
This year’s theme is “mathematics and art.”
Cf. both of yesterday’s entries.