Toe Jam & the Creative Connection
What does a creative David Byrne video, a controversial political art cover, descriptions of bad real estate, a German Pulse exhibit, Tom Wolfe, a young architect’s program, Garfield and NPR’s Ira Glass’ commentary have in common? Rosecrans Baldwin posts in the Digital Ramble of the NYTimes’ The Moment blog, that they are all examples of the creative process at work. This post had me in stitches because it clearly left it to the reader to determine what was in good taste — without saying a judging word about if these examples were or not. Without disclosing if I thought they were “good” or “bad,” I’ll just say that I thought…
Interactive Art
Interactive art can be seen in some of these examples. I appreciate the general philosophy that art is inspired by many things around us and by interacting with daily objects allows us as observers to then participate in artistic creations. In Baltimore’s “Giving Birth to Dreams” Location exhibit that took place in March, 2008, Scion, the car company that partnered with AM Radio to launch the interactive exhibit noted that, “Everything we see around us is inspired by art, but this concept is not always obvious to the masses. LOCATION bridges the mental divide and illustrates the direct affects of art on life.” The Dallas Museum of Art has a…
Maps & Cosmos
Continuing with the art in science theme there are some artistic and “far-out” pictures to view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Maps: Finding our Place in the World has already passed, however the pictures can be viewed at this link and Mapping the Cosmos is ongoing through July 27th (seen below). [There are two other exhibits here that look very appealing — Artwork of Sonya Clark, especially her bead work (7/1 – 9/7) and The Special Dead, A Medieval Reliquary Revealed (8/2 – 1/18).] What’s even more cool, however, is that Hubble has it’s own wall mural site, where their images can be downloaded as wall art. Since…
