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Monday, September 30, 2024

September Song, Day XXX:
“One, two, three . . . But where is the fourth?”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:23 am

The "Where is the fourth?" question above is also by Plato.

One possible answer . . .

Other possible "fourth" locations . . .


Art and Evangelist

Pizza photo credit:  Marcela Nowak on Instagram

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Alphabet Meets Gestalt

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:25 pm

From May 19, 2010 —

Meanwhile . . .

Pharaonic

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:21 pm

NY Times  columnist's advice to the recent Harvard donor of $300 million —

"At least make them build you some weird pharaonic monument."

For the descendants of Leonard Shlain and Harry "Parkyakarkus" Einstein —

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Themes

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:48 am

Remarks by Roberta Smith in the print version of The New York Times
on Friday, August 6, suggest a review . . .

Smith's remarks concerned a show that first opened in 2019
at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

A MOCA-related post in this  journal —

The Nachtmantel  above is a painting by Jörg Immendorff,
who reportedly died at 61 in 2007 —

A 'painter with provocative themes'

A less provocative theme from Log24 on the date of Immendorff's death:

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"The form, the pattern" — T. S. Eliot

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Keeping Tabs

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 pm

Weimar 360

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:19 pm

“… an internal ‘360’ review — in which staff members
offer anonymous feedback — revealed negative evaluations….”

The New York Times  today on MOCA, the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

History of the “360 review” —

“The origins are with the German Reichswehr around 1930,
when the military psychologist Johann Baptist Rieffert
developed a methodology to select officer candidates.”

Wikipedia

Related material suggested by a Harvardwood email today
reporting a recent alumni death —

See also CV Books.

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Geometry Battlefield

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:33 pm

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Design Warmed Over

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Today's announcement of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize
to Arata Isozaki suggests a review.

Isozaki designed the Museum of Contemporary Art building
in Los Angeles in 1986.

A related article from May 19, 2010 —

An excerpt from the Walker article — 

Throwback fun with Chermayeff and Geismar —

Other news published on May 19, 2010 —

See also "Character of Permanence" in this  journal.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

All-Spark Notes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:55 pm

(Continued)

"For years, the AllSpark rested, sitting dormant
like a giant, useless art installation."

— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider.com yesterday

Related material —

Dormant cube

IMAGE- Britannica 11th edition on the symmetry axes and planes of the cube

Giant, useless art installation —

Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA.  See also LeWitt in this journal.

Friday, June 16, 2017

Chalkroom Jungle

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:33 am

At MASS MoCA, the installation "Chalkroom" quotes a lyric —

Oh beauty in all its forms
funny how hatred can also be a beautiful thing
When it's as sharp as a knife
as hard as a diamond

Perfect

— From "One Beautiful Evening," by Laurie Anderson.

See also the previous post and "Smallest Perfect" in this journal.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Building Six

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:47 pm

Berkshire tales of May 25, 2017 —

See also, in this  journal from May 25 and earlier, posts now tagged
"The Story of Six."

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