The summer concert season of 2007 swept America back into the 1980s as scores of hard rock/metal bands from that decade began touring again, drawing large crowds, new, young fans, and solid revenues 25 years after first emerging. Who toured? Tesla, Dokken, Great White, Winger, Warrant, Queensryche, Poison, ...
First you laugh. Then you wonder why. This is the one-two punch of humor in art today, where laughter is nervous but never cheap, and comic turns are but the gateway to a world of doubt. Indeed, funny art comes so loaded with piercing ironies, sudden surrealities, and deadpan expressions of horror or ...
One vertical line. A foot long. Crude as a stroke of greasepaint. Tattooed on the back of a Mexico City man who had been approached at random and paid $50 to serve as a canvas. Captured in a photo documenting the 1998 event, the mark, drawn by a hired tattooist, runs a foot long down the man’s ...
As an art student at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1960s, Monona Rossol took a sculpture class where she and other students repeatedly melted pipe lead in a poorly ventilated studio. After class, “I would only get as far as the library before I had to vomit,” she recalls. “Back ...
Am I interested in art?
This may seem like a basic question, but too often novices enter the art market without a passion for the medium. The result is that they make poor choices and end up with pieces they don't even like.
Am I knowledgeable about art?
If you took an art history course in college, ...
The great feat of the Turner prize is not that it rewards art many people consider to be "just a bit of rubbish" but that it claims to make absolute, not relative, distinctions between four such pieces every year. It shortlists four artists that to conservative eyes are just charlatans, exhibits ...
Whether depicted realistically or in impressionistic technique, in subdued colors or in full explosion of their natural colors, in bud or full bloom, flowers as a subject in art, both by the artist and the collector, has always had a universal appeal.
Artists have always tried to capture beauty, which ...
Sports
Britain is known to be the first country to organize sport as national activity. In the second half of the nineteen century it organized an exported a number of games, notably football, rugby football, hockey, lawn tennis, golf and cricket. The initial purpose behind organized sports was to ...
To many Pu-erh lovers, the appreciation for Pu-erh goes beyond its wonderful taste. A piece of Pu-erh Bing Cha is a piece of arts work by itself. Things like its outside wrap, inside label, and its shape and tea leaves all suggest the level of craftsmanship of its manufacture. In comparison to regular ...
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