Coney Island at the Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth Atheneum is one of the oldest public art museums in the United States. Okay, they say the oldest but Wikipedia disagrees. I’m not here to fight it out, but rather to praise. The Wadsworth Atheneum has an impressive…
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Barbara Kruger – Subverting Subversion
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Her work takes the visual language of mass commercial communication and flips it. Basically, she appropriates commercial photographic imagery and overlays it with philosophical slogans that run counter to the imagery. This inversion…
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Restoring Ancient Artifacts With Frickin’ Laser Beams
Few technologies evoke the future like lasers. For instance, who can forget the opening sequence of Star Wars? The awesome yellow planet of Tatooine emerges from a total eclipse, her two moons glowing against the darkness. A tiny silver spacecraft,…
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Robert Rauschenberg – Monogram
There are few artists whose work I admire more than that of Robert Rauschenberg. Not only for his work itself, but how it pushed boundaries of how art was considered. In 1964, after Robert Rauschenberg won the Venice Biennale Grand…
The Redemption of Salvador Dali
One of my personal favourite artists is Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), more commonly known as Salvador Dalí. Or even more often, as Salvador Dali…
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