I’m finally getting around to posting notes about “The Future of the Image,” a lecture panel at Columbia University last week featuring visual theorists W. J. T. Mitchell and Jacques Rancière. For an academic lecture, the place was packed–I arrived 15 minutes early and got one of the last seats. Many people were […]
Since the confusing boundaries between science, technology, and art are a favorite topic here at 291–and yesterday’s post was such a grisly example–it’s only appropriate to make note of the Times‘ morbid little article about the 1962 Stereoscopic Atlas of the Human Body. Apparently Stanford University plans to put the 25-volume masterpiece online to […]
Am I the only one who’s disappointed that this Yale abortion thing seems to be a hoax? Well, it’s not a hoax, but rather a stunt, where the art is the information and documentation about the thing, rather than the thing itself–which it seems never happened.
According to the Yale Daily News, this […]
Despite the unimpressed response from the blogosphere (see here and here), I think this year’s AIPAD marks a significant improvement over last year’s. AIPAD ‘07 sticks in my mind as a bunch of galleries trying to sell the same non-vintage Kertesz and Lartigue prints around every corner. While there’s still plenty of late […]
There are currently three different features on Gregory Crewdson in the media right now–not counting reviews of his new show at Luhring Augustine. There’s an art/human interest piece in New York magazine, an essay in Aperture redacted from a talk given by Crewdson about his influences, and an interview with Crewdson online at the […]
As of April 1st, the Brooklyn Museum’s experimental photography show, “Click!”, has been open to the judging public. Here’s how it works:
1.) Register with the museum’s website.
2.) Describe your approximate level of expertise.
3.) Begin judging!
The judging period ends on May 23rd, at which point I’ll share my thoughts on the pool as a whole. […]
Check out the blog here. (via Eyeteeth.)
Researchers at Tel Aviv University say they have successfully programmed a computer to recognize beauty in women. Rather than dreaming up abstract ideas of beauty, then trying to explain them to a computer, scientists had men and women evaluate faces for beauty without explaining their judgments. Reseachers then made geometric maps of each […]
There’s a great article in U.S. News & World Report on the photograph that won that Pulitzer prize in 1976, The Soiling of Old Glory. The article is an interview with Louis Masur, a professor of American culture at Trinity who’s written a book on the photograph. Incredibly, I’d never seen this image […]
After a two week hiatus, 291 is back. I’ll be posting again shortly.
