Monthly Archives: December 2009

Marching Under The Banner Of Freedom

By Jens Haas | Published: December 16, 2009
None of the art/photo blogs ever seem to ask the most obvious question: Is there a downside to everybody looking at everybody’s work constantly? Technically, one nice effect for reasonably talented beginners is that you can get to a decent skill level faster by looking at a lot of work; and the web makes this [...]
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A Trip To Postmodernism, By Mara L.

By Mara L. | Published: December 9, 2009
As an architect, I find myself in a field almost free of theory. But many of my dear artist friends love theorizing. This has, in turn, made me think, and come up with a hypothesis: postmodernism has some kind of touristic appeal here in the United States. Americans don’t really live in a culture of [...]
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Elected Office

By Jens Haas | Published: December 2, 2009
A number of photography blogs have linked to Platon’s latest photographs of world leaders, taken in a tiny studio that he set up right next to the General Assembly at the United Nations this past September; the project was commissioned by the New Yorker. I join the chorus of those who recommend seeing the excellent [...]
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