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Saturday, February 1, 2014

But Is It Art?

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:35 am

See New York Times  story on some art from Delft.
This may be read as a prequel (online Jan. 30) to
two Log24 posts — yesterday's Diamond Star and
this morning's Delft Version.

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Storyboard for Harvard Philosophy Department

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:03 pm

From a Feb. 26 Aeon  essay, "Folklore is Philosophy," by
Abigail Tulenko, "a PhD student in philosophy at Harvard University,
and a research assistant for the Anansi Story Project at Harvard’s
Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab" —

"In his wry poem ‘The Conundrum of the Workshops’ (1890),
Rudyard Kipling describes Adam’s first sketch scratched
in the dirt of Eden with a stick:

… [It] was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves:
‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’

And so we may ask: folklore may be inclusive, but is it philosophy?"

A related storyboard —

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Definitive

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:30 pm

"(CBS News) Two decades after Morley Safer took
a critical look at contemporary art in his 60 Minutes
story  'Yes…But is it Art?'  he has found the definitive
answer to his snide question . . . ."

— March 30, 2012, introduction to a "60 Minutes" piece 
dated April 1, 2012

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Note on the Death of Culture

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:00 pm

In memory of the late Claus Adolf Moser,
Baron Moser, who reportedly died at 92  
on Friday, September 4, 2015.

Moser, a statistician, later became an arts
administrator as well. (He was chairman of the
Royal Opera House, 1974-1987).

Arts for Moser:

From the current New Yorker  (Sept. 7, 2015) —

New Yorker blackboard cartoon

From this journal last year —

But Is It Art? and Diamond Star
(Feb. 1 and Jan. 31, 2014)

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110905-StellaOctangulaView.jpg

Friday, September 4, 2015

Delft Speaks

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:19 am

Items suggested by yesterday's 7:20 AM EDT post on Intel
and by an August 24, 2015, New York Times  piece

(Waldman was quoted here on Aug. 26 and on Aug. 31.)

"September 03, 2015 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

DELFT, Netherlands–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today Intel Corporation announced a 10-year collaborative
relationship with the Delft University of Technology and
TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Research, to
accelerate advancements in quantum computing.
To achieve this goal, Intel will invest US$50 million and
will provide significant engineering resources both on-site
and at Intel, as well as technical support."

A background search for Delft in this journal yields a link
(from "But Is It Art?") to the Vermeer described by Waldman —

Thursday, March 6, 2014

ART WARS (continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:04 pm

See “But is it Art?,” linked to here and here

Friday, January 31, 2014

Diamond Star

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

From The Diamond and the Star ,  by John Warden*
(London, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd.,  June 1, 2009) —

(The quotation is from Kipling's "The Conundrum of the Workshops.")

IMAGE- The Devil's question - 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Answer — Some would say "Yes."

Part I: From a search for "Diamond Star" in this journal —

The Diamond Star

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110905-StellaOctangulaView.jpg

Part II: From the Facebook photos of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche—

* Obituary link, added at 10:45 PM ET Jan. 31 after reading  a publisher's note 
  saying that "The author sadly died before the book was published."

  Perhaps sadly, perhaps not.

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