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Inside the Fight for Free Education at Cooper Union. In November of 2009, then-president of Cooper Union Dr. George Campbell Jr. delivered a speech accepting the Green Building Design Award, which had just been awarded to the institution’s recently completed home at 41 Cooper Square. The building was a symbolic shift for the school, its stainless steel facade something one would expect to find at a large research university with a global brand, not at a small arts, engineering, and architecture university where students attended gratis. With a droopy bowtie, tiny spectacles, and a teacherly grin, Dr. Campbell exudes a quaint, avuncular honesty. In his speech, Campbell briefly mentioned Cooper’s free education, touted the building’s environmental sustainability, and quickly alluded to some unspecified risks behind the project. “It’s enormously gratifying to be recognized and to be rewarded for taking those risks—and succeeding,” he said.

Yet, as Dr. 19th-Century Album of Ottoman Fashion. In this section of the site we bring you curated collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. With a leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age, a kind of hyperlinked Wunderkammer – an archive of materials which truly celebrates the breadth and variety of our shared cultural commons and the minds that have made it. Some of our most popular posts include visions of the future from late 19th century France, a dictionary of Victorian slang and a film showing the very talented “hand-farting” farmer of Michigan.

With each post including links back to the original source we encourage you to explore these wonderful online sources for yourself. Check out our Sources page to see where we find the content. Art history class: Learn to analyze and appreciate fine art in museums. Illustration by Mouni Feddag There are few things I dread more than a trip to an art museum. The spectacle of visitors drifting aimlessly between masterpieces, tossing a fleeting glance at each, is depressing enough. But then come the quips and faux bon mots—always minor variations on a theme. Greek and Roman sculptures: They’re naked. Mark Joseph Stern is a writer for Slate. Museumgoers drop these sallies with a smirk, but to my ears, these would-be witticisms just sound sad. Americans struggle to appreciate art for a variety of reasons, but most trip up on three big stumbling blocks. Second, visual art demands analysis. Third, the history of art is sprawling. These problems are significant and understandable.

Survey courses get a lot of flak from art historians, many of whom consider them to be shallow. Art is humanity’s cultural heritage. What classes did we miss? Photos About Mental Health. A surreal work by Christian Hopkins, who explains, “I’ve been suffering from Major Depression for the past 4 years and it has manifested itself throughout that period in many ways, photography included.” (via mymodernmet.com) Maybe there’s something to Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” song: summer can sometimes be an intense, heavy season, so perhaps that is why two recent articles have been dipping their toes into the pool of complex emotion that is contemporary life. The first, which appeared in Salon, has an intense title: “Living in America will drive you insane — literally.” Here’s what writer Bruce E. The reality is that with enough helplessness, hopelessness, passivity, boredom, fear, isolation, and dehumanization, we rebel and refuse to comply. And then the New York Times came out with an even more depressing exploration of the topic simply titled, “The Trauma of Being Alive.”

Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. Tagged as: Bruce E. Fantastic explanations of the movie trickery in Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis,’ 1927. A great find by Mike Novak at Smithsonian Magazine proves that movie fans were just as interested in “special effects” as any fan of Star Wars, Alien, Terminator 2, The Matrix, or Avatar—a June 1927 issue of Science and Technology magazine laying out the innovative techniques behind Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis. Metropolis is one of the greatest, most astonishing movies ever made—it still holds up. Indeed, it’s arguably the only movie from the silent era that has widespread currency among younger viewers today. That’s how good it is. Imagery from Metropolis is something of a staple in our culture—you can often spot it in random montages of miscellaneous footage, and especially in Queen’s video to “Radio Ga Ga,” which ends with the words, “Thanks to Metropolis.” If you’ve seen the movie, the crowd scenes and the close-up shots of electricity surrounding certain characters—these shots are done so well that you hardly stop to ask how they were done.

Part 2: part 3: Alice Goldfarb Marquis: Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare (2002. Art4anyone : C - Curve by Anish KAPOOR #art... I remember you.

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The girl never owned the pearls, she likes tea with butter & honey on her toast. She likes to attempt empathy, by listening to Janis Joplin wail @8am. Disney’s Tattooed “Princess” | Tattoo History Occasionally. This morning while multitasking parenting and a group project meeting at my house, my daughter asked if she could watch the Disney movie, Pocahontas.

I wavered, not wanting to cave in to screen-as-babysitter so early in the day, but then I remembered that Pocahontas is tattooed. “Hey Eleanor,” I queried, “do you remember that Pocahontas has a tattoo?” Eleanor gave me one of those “duh, mom” looks and proceeded to tell me all about Pocahontas’s tattoo: “She has a tattoo on her arm, and it’s red, and it looks like fire.” (Proud mom moment…she’s just 4…a good interpretation of an abstract image!) Disney will probably get mad at me for using these images here, but here’s how they envisioned her tattooing: (A cover from one of the DVD issues.) (A still from the film) (Front and back of a Secotan woman.) (Detail of the upper torso from behind) [ETA: on further reflection, and perusal of the White manuscript images on the BL site, I think actually the Disney folks might have looked at those too. Linder at Kestner Gesellschaft.

Artist: Linder Venue: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover Exhibition Title: Woman/Object Date: June 7 – August 4, 2013 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; and Dépendance, Brussels. Press Release: The kestnergesellschaft is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition by Linder Sterling in Germany. Linder’s artistic practice has always covered art, music, dance and fashion, and unites various media, such as collage, photography, video and performance. Linder Sterling was born in Liverpool as Linda Mulvey in 1954. Link: Linder at Kestner Gesellschaft Tags: Europe, Germany, Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Linder. Guaranteed to Make You Smile: Emoji Art History 2.0. Thanks to Annie Werner at Tumblr, who has pointed out that Emoji Art History has gone to the next level.

Behold, Emoji Degas! Specifically, Edgar Degas’s “Dancers Practicing at the Barre” (1877) meets the ballet dancers emoji (aka woman with bunny ears). These 2.0 versions of one of our favorite digital art history games is the work of a new tumblelog (or its fans), appropriately titled, emojinalart.tumblr.com. I dare you not to smile at these quirky mashups: A Van Gogh self-portrait … Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” … Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” … Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” … Tagged as: emoji, emoji art history.

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