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Stella's Goal

The Whitney Museum of American Art has stated that artist Frank Stella in 1959 "wanted to create work that was methodical, intellectual and passionless." Source: Whitney Museum, transcript of audio guide. Related…

Moment by Stella

"Frank actually makes the moment. He captures it and helps to define it." — Architect Robert Kahn on artist Frank Stella, as quoted by Nancy Wolfson in "Rings of…

Art at Midnight

Art in America — "After considering and dismissing a number of definitions, Danto comes down on one that he thinks captures the 'artness of art': artworks are embodied meanings….

It's 10 PM

See August 9, 2009 at Haaretz and in this journal.

Imaginary Playmate

For Mike Nichols…

Reverse Chronology

Scene I: "Pinter's particular usage of reverse chronology  in structuring the plot is innovative…." — Wikipedia on the play "Betrayal," a version of which     opens tonight Scene…

Days of Future Past

"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today." The New Yorker , May 13, 2002 See also Log24 ,  January 8, 2012. "                  …

Abstraction

Rhetorical questions by art critic Michael Glover— "Has this kind of abstraction to do with ideas of the spiritual? Are we supposed to see behind what we have here…

Annals of Academic Prose

See also St. Stephen's Day, 2012.

For Stephen King

(Continued) Wikipedia — "Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts,  United States, located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts. Originally known as Salem Village, the town is most widely…