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Art in Earnest: Harlem-Based Artist, Tyson Hall

Eric J. Henderson | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: El Anatsui, Howard Gardner, Barry Sanders, Kandinsky, Ellen Winner, Cs Lewis, Jamaica Queens, Harlem, New York, Artist Profile, Queens, Street Art, Art Theory, New York Street Art, Tyson Hall, New York Art, Arts News
Eric J. Henderson

Hall dwells specifically at the intersection of Art and Policy, his work aiming to touch people in the everyday. That is so cliché that it hurts as I strip the meaning of that universality down to a feel-good thing to say. I don't mean it that way.

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Maison Sennelier: Color Inspiration From Paris

Hayley Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Maison Sennelier, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Claude Monet, Robert Lambert, Arts News
Hayley Griffith

My color inspiration is found within the doors of a beautiful historic Parisian landmark located in front of the Louvre in France.

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Synesthesia: A Crossing of the Senses

Jane Chafin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Color, Memory, Kandinsky, Art, Synesthesia, Arts News
Jane Chafin

At a dinner party recently my friend James mentioned that he had synesthesia -- something I had never heard of. He explained that since childhood he had seen numbers and letters as specific colors.

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Stendhal's Syndrome

Jane Chafin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Double Rainbow, Kandinsky, Art, Donald-Judd, Stendhal's Syndrome, Painting, Video, Arts News
Jane Chafin

Stendhal's syndrome (or hyperkulturemia) is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art.

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Art Therapy: Art Displayed In New Children's Hospital Made By Kids

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grand Rapids, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Children, Art Therapy, Kandinsky, Modern Art, Painting, Kandinsky Project, Russian Art, Art, Avant-Garde, Helen Devos, Russian Painting, Richard Wagner, Slidepollajax, Lincoln Development Center, Art Education, Michigan, Children's Hospital, Arts News

Art is not only creative, but also a therapeutic process. When the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital opened earlier this year in Grand Rapids, Michi...

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Artlog's Top Summer Museum Picks

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Artlog.com, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artlog, Kandinsky, Nyc Art, Picasso, Art Galleries, Henri Matisse, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nyc, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Museums, Pablo Picasso, Doug Starn, Whitney Museum, Slidepollajax, New York News
Artlog

We highlight here the best major museum summer shows in New York City.

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Kandinsky's Synesthesia and Rock and Roll ...And, My Mother Has To Understand It!

Charles Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kandinsky, Kandinsky?S the Yellow Sound, Guggenheim, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, New York News
Charles Fabius

For "Levels of Nothingness," inspired by Kandinsky's "Yellow Sound," Rafa Lozano-Hemmerwill position 40 super-duper light projectors in the Guggenheim, surrounding the audience.

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Artist As Second Career: The Wild World Of Kathy Taslitz

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: The Inner Life, Spirituality, First Person Artist, Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Fine Art, Kathy Taslitz, Kandinsky, Snake Charmer, Kimberly Brooks, Henry Moore, Painting, Son of Man, Career Change, Female Artist, Arts News
Kimberly Brooks

I am fascinated by artists who find themselves and their art careers later in life. Unlike, say, mathematicians and scientists who allegedly peak before 30, artists tend to mature and get better with age like a fine wine

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