Getting caught up

I've been putting off choosing the love song that I think expresses the experience of love in a "true" way.

Here it is: Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor (written by Prince)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0

Life as Art?

I'm finishing up a review of David Shields' new book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, and wanted to take a moment to run this one by you all. Shields writes:

"Everything in life, turned sideways, can look like--can be--art. Art suddenly looks and is more interesting, and life, astonishingly enough, starts to be livable."

Thoughts? Examples?

IARTS 101 Spring 2010: Exercise 1

Our first assignment was to take a reproduction of a famous painting and photograph it in three different contexts.  The idea for this exercise came from John Berger's book Ways of Seeing, in which he discusses how the meaning and experience of a work of art changes when it is reproduced.  His most poignant example is of a famous painting that is shown on television.  All of a sudden it is broadcast into the homes of millions of people; it appears there surrounded by the viewer's things and, quite possibly, enters into the midst of a conversation or situation that has nothing to do with high art.  Take a look at the blogs on the blog list in the right hand sidebar to see all the different ways this exercise was interpreted.

Here's one of my own: One (No. 31, 1950) by Jackson Pollock