Translation is a Mode

A new group exhibition, Übersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode., at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna includes works from TextEdit Textiles, a collaborative project by Arend deGruyter-Helfer and Aylor Brown. The exhibition is to run 8 April through 29 May 2010.

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A Different Approach to Blueprint

Traditional blueprint technique adapted to ceramic decoration by Studio Glithero. More about Studio Glithero and the blue vases: design.nl idea generation de zeen

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The Hewer

George Grey Barnard, 1904. Photographed in Cairo, Illinois, June 2008, while we were touring old U.S. 51

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Definition

I once tried to come up with a definition of art. Always a risky enterprise. But the best I could come up with was: create an arbitrary set of rules, and then follow them slavishly. You set up an idea of what you should and you should not do, and then you strictly adhere to [...]

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“Taken From Here …”

Located on a wall next to one of the entrances to a group of galleries in the new modern wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, this could easily be missed or perhaps ignored as an informational sign rather than appreciated as a conscious work of art. By Lawrence Weiner, consisting of vinyl letters attached [...]

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Objet d’art?

In his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.” Wilde, I fear, would not have forgiven the person who created [...]

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