Art Evangelism & Society 2.0

Lehman Collapse & Cai Guo-Qiang Instress

Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:13 AM EDT

Exactly one year ago I was sitting at my desk in the Time Warner Building doing something or another as Energy Counsel to the Capital Market Contracts Legal group at Lehman Brothers.

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Quantum Theory+Oscar Wilde=19th Century Instress of Art

Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:10 AM EDT

"Artists have mysteriously incorporated into their works features of a physical description of the world that science later discovers." ~ Leonard Shlain

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Some Enchanted Evening

Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:08 AM EDT

We know that there are many reasons people make art. Among them are desires to answer questions, to give expression to uncontainable (and indescribable) impulses, and to create a visually satisfying order out of disparate elements.

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Martin Puryear Instression: Ladder for Booker T. Washington

Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:06 AM EDT

Is it a stairway to heaven or the corporate ladder? Either one is enough to make you cry (though for different reasons). And cry I did when I walked into the Atrium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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