Author: Catherine

blue wall, brooklyn

Highlights of today: Conversation with a stranger about Alison Knowles. And this wall triptych:       

visually apparent repairs

Flickwerk, The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics (PDF) urushitsugi “to patch with lacquer” ursuhitsukuroi “to repair with lacquer” urushinaoshi “lacquer repair” kintsugi “to patch with gold” kintsukuroi “to repair with gold” naoshi “repair” kinnaoshi...

sun drops

Stunned in the neighborhood this morning, trees sparkling with sun drops.

International Pwoermd Writing Month

International Pwoermd Writing Month starts tomorrow! I’ll be posting pwoermds here and on twitter. For more pwoermdists, check out http://napwowrimo.blogspot.com/ For a description of pwoermd, and other interesting vocabulary, see http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-vocabulary-30.html

“expansive ways of looking”

Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73 If some of us have learned anything since 1984, it’s how to value indigenous arts. Thank you, Thomas McEvilley. …Mr. McEvilley was a...