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Category Archives: Art
Reasonable Expectations
Posted in Animation, Art, Books
Tagged Cartoons, Comics, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roald Dahl
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Because we love watching the flock’s precision glide
Artist Kate Sweeney turned the poem “Murmuration” by Linda France (below)into a profound and heartfelt animated short film. Created for the 2020 Durham Book Festival, the timely work will surely resonate during this trying period for all of us. MURMURATION … Continue reading
Everybody On Earth
Inspired by the work of the US artist Jenny Holzer, who pioneered compressed texts and slogans she coined “truisms,” Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland has created a series of billboards that can now be seen along the Arbutus Greenway, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Canada
Tagged Douglas Coupland, Jenny Holzer, Vancouver
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Call and Response
I’m disappointed that I will be missing this current exhibition at New York City’s magnificent Morgan Museum and Library. Betye Saar: Call and Response is based on Los Angeles–based artist Betye Saar who emerged in the 1960s as a major voice in American … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, History, Libraries
Tagged Betye Saar, collage, Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
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Teeter Totter
Although it only lasted for less than an hour, the Teeter Totter Wall created by Rael San Fratello with Colectivo Chopeke made international headlines when it was installed in July 2019, and has now been launched back into the spotlight … Continue reading
Tableaux Vivants
Due to Covid curfews, a group of French librarians used their free time to recreate book related paintings in a series of amusing tableaux vivants. très drôle The entire album can be viewed on Calameo .
Travel Between The Pages 