Category Archives: Art

The slides from my talk the other week are now online. You can see them here: A Practical Introduction to Art for the Absolute Beginner (slides). Will have video and audio as soon as Mikey is done processing it. Beginning … Continue reading →

I’ll be speaking this Thursday at the first ever UrHo Talks event (we’re still working on the name). My talk is titled “A Practical Introduction to Art for the Absolute Beginner”. It’s a whirlwind tour through art history, theory, and … Continue reading →

“Untitled (Table & Chairs),” 1999, oil and wax on paper, 469.9 by 350.5 inches Thought: I’ve had Toba Khedoori sitting in my inbox of interesting artists for more than a year now, ever since I first saw her work in … Continue reading →

“Help”, 2005, watercolor on paper, 31.5 by 44.5 inches. Thought: Hankang Huang’s paintings are about humor, which is not to say that they’re particularly funny, or meant to be. Instead of aiming for laughs themselves, Huang’s delicately drawn and deliberately … Continue reading →

“stampographic panorama (detail)”, 2003, collaged stamps, ink on paper, 60 by 16 inches. Thought: Jonathan Herder collages together thousands of US postal stamps to produce large scale landscapes that playfully tweak the traditional image of the iconic American west. Treating … Continue reading →

“Mall of America”, 2004, gouache on paper, 38 by 50 inches. Thought: Amy Chan paints the universe you might find in the imagination of an especially nervous video game designer — as if Philip Guston had somehow been made to … Continue reading →

Note: This post inaugurates an experiment I’m trying with the hope of assuaging the growing group of readers and friends I’ve heard from in horror lately as the proportion of technical content around here has grown. On each weekday, I’m … Continue reading →

Note: This post, while long and somewhat rambling, was once longer and even more rambling. I excised a sizable intro, which, I hope, helps with readability. Unfortunately, the intro also added some useful context and was, if I do say … Continue reading →

During college, I worked for a summer at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, an eccentric, and poignantly beautiful, victorian-style domestic museum housed in a storefront on Venice in Culver City, California. Over the years since, I’ve kept in touch with … Continue reading →

Although it may be hard to tell from the above picture, contemporary artist Jochem Hendricks practices a drawing technique originally advanced by New York Art Students’ League instructor Kimon Nicolaides in the 1920s. Near the beginning of his posthumously-published philosophy-summarizing … Continue reading →