The above title phrase is from the Windows lockscreen
I encountered at 7:59 AM ET today:
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
“Modern Meets Historic”
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Usual Suspects
This post was suggested by the 2019 film “Synchronic,”
by Google News this morning . . .
. . . and by posts tagged Crux in this journal.
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Saturday, April 17, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Dot Patterns
Apparently because of its usual visual representation,
the Fano plane has now been put in the Wikipedia category
“Dot patterns.”
Some dot patterns many will prefer: Braille Nude.
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Art Issue*
"… the beautiful object
that stood in
for something else.”
— Holland Cotter quoting an art historian
in The New York Times on May 13
From a post of April 27, 2020 —
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity,
the whole meaning of which lies within the shell
of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical
(if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted),
and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside
like a kernel but outside….”
— Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
The beautiful object —
Something else —
* The title is a reference to other posts now also tagged Art Issue.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
The Art Issue
“A sort of pointillist mosaic”
— Author David Mitchell on the film adaptation of
his novel Cloud Atlas .
See also the previous post, Cloud Atlas of Unknowing.
“Art isn’t easy.” — Sondheim.
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Monday, April 27, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
Art at Cologne
This post was suggested by a New York Review of Books article
on Cologne artist Gerhard Richter in the May 14, 2020, issue —
“The Master of Unknowing,” by Susan Tallman.
Some less random art —
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