Friday September 4, 2009

Continued from Monday

“This is a chapel 
 of mischance;
ill luck betide it, ’tis
the cursedest kirk
  that ever I came in!”

Philip Kennicott on
Kirk Varnedoe in
The Washington Post:

“Varnedoe’s lectures were
ultimately about faith,
about his faith in
the power of abstraction,
 and abstraction as a kind of
    anti-religious faith in itself….”

Kennicott’s remarks were
 on Sunday, May 18, 2003.
They were subtitled
“Closing the Circle
on Abstract Art.”

Also on Sunday, May 18, 2003:

 “Will the circle be unbroken?
  As if some southern congregation
  is praying we will come to understand.”

Princeton University Press:

See also

Parmiggiani’s 
  Giordano Bruno —

Dürer’s Melencolia I —

and Log24 entries
of May 19-22, 2009,
ending with
    “Steiner System” —

George Steiner on chess
(see yesterday morning):