pansophy of perceptual painting

I have recently discovered Francis Cunningham’s You Tube Channel.This guy seems to know what he is talking about.

-Mat

origami is unreal

Much of the Beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

- Henri Matisse

I saw this at the beginning of a nice, 54 min documentary about origami, titled, “Between the Folds”. It’s on Netflix if you got it.

Mat

The Art of the Steal

Hello everyone! I am pleased to make my first post as a Sabu Collective member.

As my first matter of business, I would like to highlight a documentary I watched last night, The Art of the Steal. It is a very engaging film about the Barnes Foundation art collection scandal. Definitely worth checking out…

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a warm, kind-of-creepy, fun, hypnotic music video to cuddle up with this winter.

Matthew

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The weather was kinda crummy this weekend and I loved it.  I stayed in and drew quite a bit.  It was lovely.  Here are a couple.

-Mat

time

I watched this recently, and it breaks down our current understanding of time quite well. It moves from how we measure time, and how time exists on a quantum level. Quite interesting concepts.

-Neil

new intimists

I don’t work with interior space, but I came across this link and found two artists that make interior spaces look fantastical and quite intimate.

The New Intimists

Tamara Thomsen

Heejung Cho

-Francesca

Beanstalks and You

In some of my research I’ve been looking at old fairytales and myths, recently becoming interested in the Jack and the Beanstalk tale.  I found an interesting article analyzing and comparing it, I thought it was a good read.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v015/15.1goldberg.pdf

-Nick

Unitarded Artists, Relational Art

In May of 2005, I was part of an art installation called “Unguarded Art and Unitarded Artists” which attempted to bridge the relational gap between artists and attendees, commonly found at gallery openings. This presentation, by a loose artist collective of a dozen people, created an engaging social environment where the attendee became a [...]

The artist’s role in the civic space

While working in a local municipal planning department in the 70’s, I witnessed first hand the ignorance and accompanying issues brought on by poor city planning. The down town area of this municipality fell victim to this phenomenon due in part to shuttering of a major employer in the area, coupled with a rush [...]