Fonts of Fame

in Art | May 25th, 2007

Helvetica2

What font do you write in? Do you have strong feel­ings about it? It turns out many writ­ers do. Slate has a fas­ci­nat­ing slide-show essay mark­ing Hel­veti­ca’s fifti­eth anniver­sary, cel­e­brat­ing the font “some have called the offi­cial type­face of the 20th cen­tu­ry.” In an accom­pa­ny­ing arti­cle the mag­a­zine sur­veyed a few famous writ­ers and none of them claimed the big H as their let­ter­ing of choice (couri­er won by a landslide–apparently these peo­ple have fond mem­o­ries of their type­writ­ers). If you’re in New York, you might check out the MoMA exhib­it cel­e­brat­ing Hel­veti­ca’s gold­en moment.

Ready for a new look your­self? There are hun­dreds of sites ready to help you get your font on for love or for money–check out Sim­ply the Best Free Fonts as just one exam­ple. To be safe, always make sure you scan down­loaded files for virus­es before start­ing that new nov­el.

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Art Blogs — A New Addition to the Culture Blogs Family

in Art | May 21st, 2007


      We now serve you 25 art/visual art blogs, all of which have also been fold­ed into a larg­er list of 100+ cul­ture blogs. We’re now call­ing it The Big List of Cul­ture Blogs (pret­ty cre­ative, eh), and we’ll add to it over time.

As always, please **@******re.com/”>email us and let us know if we’re miss­ing some­thing essen­tial.

  • Absolute Arts.com Art Blog: A sta­ble of versed blog­gers who look at a spec­trum of art-relat­ed themes.
  • Alec Soth: Pho­to­graph­i­ca, mis­cel­lanea, et cetera.
  • Art.Blogging.La: An art blog start­ed by Caryn Cole­man that dis­cuss­es and pro­motes the vital art scene in LA.
  • Art­ByUs.com: An eclec­tic and inter­na­tion­al art news site.
  • Art Forum: A good look at the art event and social scene. Some­what for insid­ers.
  • Art Law Blog: Title kind of sums it up.
  • Art News Blog: The blog digs up new sto­ries, reviews, guides, and arti­cles found online and shares them each day. Sto­ries have an inter­na­tion­al focus with an empha­sis on the visu­al arts.
  • Art World Salon: Looks at the fast-paced trans­for­ma­tions tak­ing place in the glob­al art world. Fre­quent­ly looks at the eco­nom­ic side of things.
  • Con­sci­en­tious: A weblog about fine-art pho­tog­ra­phy (and more).
  • Con­tem­po­rary Pulitzer: An art blog put togeth­er joint­ly by the Con­tem­po­rary Art Muse­um St. Louis and The Pulitzer Foun­da­tion for the Arts.
  • Cronaca: A com­pi­la­tion of news con­cern­ing art, arche­ol­o­gy, his­to­ry, and what­ev­er else catch­es the chronicler’s eye, with the odd bit of opin­ion and com­men­tary thrown in.
  • Edward Win­kle­man: Art, pol­i­tics, gos­sip and tough love from a NYC arts deal­er. You’ll find this site list­ed on many-a-blogroll.
  • Eye Lev­el: A blog pro­duced by the Smith­son­ian Amer­i­can Art Muse­um, it uses the museum’s col­lec­tion as a touch­stone and is ded­i­cat­ed to Amer­i­can art and the ways in which the nation’s art reflects its his­to­ry and cul­ture. Sur­pris­ing­ly, one of the few blogs to come out of the muse­um world.
  • Fal­lon and Rosof’s Art­blog: Art reviews, deep thoughts, and gos­sip from Philadel­phia and beyond.
  • Gallery Hop­per: A guide to the best of fine art pho­tog­ra­phy, gal­leries and events in New York City and beyond.
  • Gram­mar Police: A well-regard art blog that Won­kette sum­ma­rizes as “local art fag par excel­lence.”
  • Gravest­mor: A wide­ly-cit­ed archi­tec­ture blog com­ing out of Aus­tralia.
  • Guardian Art & Archi­tec­ture Blog: A British take on the arts world. One of the few blogs cit­ed here from the main­stream press.
  • Life With­out Build­ings: News and notes from an archi­tec­ture weblog with a pen­chant for giant stat­ues and post­mod­ern cul­ture.
  • Look­ing Around: A blog by Richard Lacayo, who writes about books, art and archi­tec­ture at TIME Mag­a­zine.
  • Mag­num Pho­tos: A mul­ti-author, aes­thet­i­cal­ly well designed pho­tog­ra­phy blog.
  • Mod­ern Art Notes: Voila, Tyler Green’s blog about mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art. The Wall Street Jour­nal has called MAN “the most influ­en­tial of all visu­al-arts blogs.”
  • Pleiady — Thoughts for a New Gen­er­a­tion: A blog on the Art of Now
  • smARThis­to­ry: Gen­er­al Mus­ings about using tech­nol­o­gy to teach with images by two art his­to­ri­ans, Beth Har­ris and Steven Zuck­er. Often fea­tures links to worth­while art his­to­ry pod­casts.
  • The Art His­to­ry Newslet­ter: If there are aca­d­e­mics among us, this is for you.
  • The Art Life: Fea­tures a lengthy art site blogroll. Look down the right hand side and you’ll see what I mean.

Relate Fea­ture: See our relat­ed arti­cle on Art Muse­um Pod­casts.

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Coltrane Spotify Sample

in Art, Creativity, Literature | December 1st, 2006

Sec­ond attempt

Third

 

Amer­i­ca lost more than it real­ized today. Sty­ron was, of course, appre­ci­at­ed by a great num­ber of writ­ers, read­ers, and crit­ics. But, these days, he isn’t usu­al­ly men­tioned in the same sen­tence as Philip Roth, John Updike, or Nor­man Mail­er, the elder states­men of con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture. There are some legit­i­mate rea­sons for that. Rep­u­ta­tion is often sim­ply a func­tion of out­put and, since 1993, Sty­ron had­n’t pub­lished any­thing new. He was then deal­ing with seri­ous depres­sion, which he wrote elo­quent­ly about in one of his last works, Dark­ness Vis­i­ble: A Mem­oir of Mad­ness, and he would be in and out of hos­pi­tals from there.

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