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If there is really an area where it is obvious that we have entered a renaissance it is in the Arts where new electronic tools have allowed creators to expand their limits
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Shakespeare a stoner? Evidence indicates he may have smoked marijuana
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Legendary authors of the 16th and 17th centuries — they’re just like us!
Well, like some of us anyway. According to a study originally published in the South African Journal of Science, William Shakespeare may very well have been a user of marijuana. In the study, clay pipes found in the garden of Dude Bill’s home at Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK were analyzed and evidence of cannabis was found in some of them. Continue reading Shakespeare a stoner? Evidence indicates he may have smoked marijuana
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Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists
Wassily Kandinsky, ‘Yellow, Red, Blue’ (1925)
by Maria Popova
“To harmonize the whole is the task of art.”
“Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit),” 31-year-old Susan Sontag wrote in her diary in 1964. “Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness,” wrote Alain de Botton half a century later in the excellent Art as Therapy. But perhaps the greatest meditation on how art serves the soul came more than a century earlier, in 1910, when legendary Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinskypublished Concerning the Spiritual in Art (free download; public library) — an exploration of the deepest and most authentic motives for making art, the “internal necessity” that impels artists to create as a spiritual impulse and audiences to admire art as a spiritual hunger. Continue reading Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists
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The market for computer-created artwork is growing
LONDON — Is digital art the next big thing in the contemporary art world?
At the moment, the market for art that’s created and displayed on a screen — as distinct from paintings, prints and photos that are generated digitally and then printed — is small. Phillips’s inaugural “Paddles ON!” sale of 20 digital and digitally-related works in New York last October, held in association with the image-posting site Tumblr, was the first such event to be held at an international auction house. It raised just $90,600 — enough to buy a few square inches of a Christopher Wool painting. The top price of $16,000 went for “Asymmetric Love Number 2,” a chandelier made out of CCTV cameras, by the American “anti-disciplinarian” artist Addie Wagenknecht. Continue reading The market for computer-created artwork is growing