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Vancouver And Region | View on Canadian Art
Vancouver And Region | View on Canadian Art.
It’s been over one week since Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government at Beijing airport. He has not been heard from since and the government is accusing him of ‘economic crimes’.
Where is he? And why aren’t Canadians demanding to know?
Ai Weiwei is best known for his installation Sunflower Seeds, currently on view at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Each porcelain seed was made and hand painted by Chinese specialists working in Jingdezhen, emphasizing the labour that has gone into the project. As someone suggested to me recently, seeds are about potential growth. So you can imagine the impact of a hundred million seeds carpeting the Turbine Hall.
rites behind rites: the dark gods | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
rites behind rites: the dark gods | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
RITES BEHIND RITES: THE DARK GODS
Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dave
What are the rites behind the rites. When we observe Easter or celebrate May Day, we are actually walking in the ghostly footsteps of men who worshiped plants and murdered kings. James Frazer’s The Golden Bough was a primeval source of interwoven of legends, tales, enigmas and superstitions in the culture of the Western world. … The scene is idyllic at first: a sunlit Italian landscape just outside Rome; a small lake nestling in a hollow of the Alban hills, and by its shore the grove that is the heart of the mystery. Once it was sacred to the goddess Diana, and its guardian in ancient times lived and died by a stranger rule…
The House of Commons Heritage Collection
Fine Arts
Fine arts represent one of the most recognizable elements in the Heritage Collection. Official portraits, paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals, and frescoes all fall within this category. This part of the collection also includes some of the oldest heritage items on Parliament Hill, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. Fortunately, most of these older pieces were saved when the original Parliament building was destroyed by fire in 1916.
Canadian Tories campaign pledge: We will spy on the Internet – Boing Boing
The Meaning of Liff
BELPER (n.)
A knob of someone else’s chewing gum which you unexpectedly find your hand resting on under a desk top, under the passenger seat of your car or on somebody’s thigh under their skirt.
via The Meaning of Liff.
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The Fauxreel Interview – unurth | street art
Dan Bergeron, a.k.a. Fauxreel, creates stunning photo-based street art that also explores really interesting themes – from homelessness & community to the intersection of art & advertising, so I was excited to get into it with him.
Quicksilver Flash Back
Mona (1969) – Quicksilver Messenger Service
Virtual Choir
Virtual Choir on TED
Not really Art History but still cool use of the medium.
I particularly like the quote “All my life I had seen in black and white and… now shocking technicolour. The single most transformative moment in my life.”
Be sure to click Keep reading…
For those unfamiliar with Mozart TURN UP the volume and press play:
While I have heard an amazing version of the Kyrie in la Madeleine in Paris
few years ago, for me this moment of revelation was Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in d minor.
Again TURN UP the volume and BASS, imagine yourself 18 years old, alone in France, and standing in the middle of the labyrinth in Chartre Cathedral when suddenly:
Press play:
The day before the world had exploded into Technicolour as I stood in front of my first Van Gogh.
It is also called an epiphany
…lane