What Future For Photography?
We recently went to the Bill Brandt show at the Museum of Modern Art. Brandt is a very famous photographer, but in all honesty, when I saw most of his work my reaction was ‘what’s the big deal?’...
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Not a team player There was an interesting article in The Harvard Business Review that caught my eye this week: “Why A Great Individual Is Better Than A Good Team” by Jeff Stibel. Stibel is the Chairman and CEO of...
Read moreModern Journalism?
Modern art – Bathers by a river by Henri Matisse 1910 Yesterday we went to see the new Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NY. (As we live on top of the museum, this was not...
Read morePicasso and Video
Picasso’s The Dream: It features his mistress Marie-Therese Walter and is estimated to be worth £70m This afternoon we went to see the Picasso exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show admittedly had problems from a lack...
Read moreIF PBS RAN THE ART WORLD
Can you make it more like South Park? Television, despite all the billions of human labor hours that have been spent making stuff (and that is what TV is all about, making stuff..just like painting or sculpture), has produced...
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