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Category Archives: Art

Why didn’t I think of that?

June 22, 2010 – 7:33 pm

According to the Herald Sun yesterday: An artist has been paid $10,000 to float 10,000 paper planes in Victoria’s State Library. Ross Coulter wants to track “thought patterns” in the La Trobe (Domed) Reading Room by releasing the planes from balcony “stacks”, and will use a Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship to pay for the project. [...]

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

April 12, 2010 – 12:46 am

This image came to me via Catallaxy’s Rafe Champion, and it’s so well executed I have a feeling it may have been painted by his late wife, noted illustrator Kilmeny Niland. (If this isn’t the case, Rafe, please advise in the comments). It made me chuckle, anyway, and as I come to the business end [...]

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Books with ideas

March 14, 2010 – 5:27 pm

Books with a heavy philosophical component don’t usually sell well, and publishers tend to avoid them for that reason, but when they do, they can sell very well indeed, and it can be very difficult to explain why. Over at Catallaxy, Sinclair has a thoughtful piece on Ayn Rand, whose books sell by the pallet load, [...]

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In which SL gets her art deco fix

February 27, 2010 – 10:18 am

I have just arrived in Oxford (via a somewhat circuitous route) from New York. Everything was very late, I was astoundingly lucky to catch a cab (NY end) and astoundingly lucky to catch the last bus back to Oxford (after catching the last Heathrow Express). I came within a whisker of spending the night among [...]

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An ‘unvalued person’: guest post by Adrien

February 10, 2010 – 7:07 am

[SL: Adrien, as you all know, is a regular commenter on this blog and over at Catallaxy. A while ago, he offered us a series of occasional guest posts on matters artistic, to which we heartily agreed as Adrien has forgotten more about fine art than most of us have ever known. In light of [...]

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Japanese ghosts are the scariest

January 23, 2010 – 7:20 am

I was talking to a Japanese friend about how my parents had a book of Japanese myths and legends, and I loved to read it as a kid, but some of those stories were so scary. I am sure that Japanese ghosts are the scariest and the weirdest. Anyway, I thought I would put together [...]

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Revolution

November 7, 2009 – 6:30 pm

Since some of the discussion on Legal Eagle’s ‘Eating Greens‘ post revolved around China, I thought this image was apposite.

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H R Giger’s Tarot Deck from Hell

September 23, 2009 – 6:47 am

… Well, not quite, although the detail that his mother sometimes asks him to tone his art down is interesting. The background music is rather irritating, but the rest is distinctly worthwhile.

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Artist’s view of the court

May 9, 2009 – 9:12 am

Saint (via Boynton) pointed me to this lovely whimsical commentary by artist Maira Kalman at And the Pursuit of Happiness about her visit to the US Supreme Court. My favourite line is: In the Court the Lawyers are arguing cases that I kind of Understand. But Not Really. Not Really is putting it mildly. But [...]

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Uncivil rights

April 12, 2009 – 6:00 am

Councils in England and Wales have used controversial spying laws 10,000 times in the past five years, figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) was designed to fight serious crime. But officials have been using it to spy on suspected dog fouling, littering and other minor offences. The [...]

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