Original lithograph 30" x 22" 2008"Convergence" is an image of a Maasai spear suspended by a finger hook, a 150 year old clock spring and a primitive wooden cabinet. This image is part of a series of cabinet images that are assembled to honor the substance of the...
I recently ran a discussion on aesthetics that was highly personal, evocatively objective and maybe aggravatingly debatable.
What has happened to our K-12 education? We prefer sameness over distinction, and mediocrity is the inevitable result. We don’t hold students accountable to high standards. Instead, we rescue, drug, track and eventually pass unqualified students.
We don’t live in a fail-proof world. Reality is harsh; easy street is over. It’s time to hold students accountable, and let people fail, American Idol-style.
A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.All are invited to the opening reception of "Sealed|Revealed," Thursday, May 7, 7:00-9:00 pm at...
Linocut 5" x 7" December 2008I am a big fan of Sadao Watanabe's work, and was inspired this past Christmas to try and make a Last Supper image that would have a similar feel to his art. My homage to Watanabe did not succeed as I had hoped, but I still ended up with...
A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Christian faith informs the activism of exiled Cuban trade union leader Pedro Pablo Alvarez...
The breaking of bread is an integral part of mentoring relationships—shaping and moulding over great, or even ordinary meals.
In these days of ideological confusion, we are all scrambling to make sense of a political landscape more fluid and difficult to map than anything since the 1930s.
By 3:29 p.m. EDT, on Tuesday, April 21, the YouTube clip of Susan Boyle singing “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables had enjoyed 37,001,482 views. Media like YouTube are changing the way we participate in musical culture.
Comment asked regular contributors to answer two questions in response to this phenomenon:
What is your favourite YouTube clip?
How has YouTube or similar media affected your media consumption habits?
—The Editors
A contemporary Canadian poet has a radical take on the cross, because he is a carpenter who pays close attention to city trees.
The neglected but necessary everyday aesthetics of children’s books.
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