Art Lectures Tomorrow!
Zach "Shrimp Boat" Moser
University of Houston Sculpture Building
3 pm
Lisa Marie "Prettier than Palin" Godfrey
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Andres "Postmodernismo" Janacua
Contemporary Arts Museum Dungeon
6:30 pm
also by Sean Carroll
- Top Ten Old Things Its Good To Have Around 2008 - December 31st, 2008
- Top Ten New Things of 2008 - December 30th, 2008
- Top Ten Losses of 2008 - December 30th, 2008
- Top Ten Sculptures, Intallations and Giveaways in 2008 - December 30th, 2008
- Top Ten Paintings, Drawings and Performances in 2008 - December 26th, 2008
“Talking about art is like dancing to architecture” – David Byrne? But enticed, I prefer ideas with a better pedigree. Certainly, I don’t agree to limiting understanding of art to emotional response. Would revulsion then be an indicator of greatness? Rather – grant me asylum in art. The world is sloppy with “feelings” already. Effete.
The scar is a practical joke, a venal raison d’etre.
if you look at Irwin’s production, I don’t think that is what he’s referring to. He’s no maudlin expressionist. But I like that he’s not so coy or pretentious as to say that art ought to be only generating lofty ideas, or something.
What else is art supposed to do but generate a response – which at every level is in the end purely synaptic. Emotions and ideas and yes, feelings, are just the symptoms, call them what you will.
I go to art to be vivified in some way; to have life seem more interesting. Don’t you?
it seems to me that life actually should seem interesting, because it is really, and we’re in this constant process of losing that thread, and finding it, and losing it, and finding it…isn’t art, by definition, really that which helps us find it?