ARTpublika Magazine

08/07/2021

An Abridged History of Baseball Cards and How They Evolved into Collector's Items

Baseball cards actually predate the leagues, and that's just one of the little known facts about them.

#baseball #baseballcards #baseballhistory #pragmaticsideofart #artofprint

Did you know that baseball cards have been around longer than Major League Baseball’s National League (NL), which was founded on February 2nd in 1876 and is the older of the two leagues constituting MLB? The first of these cards actually popped up around the 1860s and looked very different from th...

08/06/2021

Jason deCaires Taylor On Underwater Sculpture, Scuba Diving & Saving the World's Coral: An interview

Jason deCaires Taylor, whom we interviewed this past winter, just opened his most recent underwater sculpture park in Cyprus. Learn more about his amazing, eco-saving works below!

#JasondeCairesTaylor #sculpturepark #artofwater #pragmaticsideofart #interview #ecology #art

Do you want to save the oceans? Consider going on a scuba diving adventure. Jason deCaires Taylor, the British sculptor whose site-specific underwater installations evolve into artificial coral reefs, is the founder of both the world's first underwater sculpture park and underwater museum. The pione...

08/04/2021

How Sculptors Mended the Scars of World War I Through The Novel Art of Face Transplants

Ran by sculptors, "'The Tin Noses Shop' was established in the spring of 1916, to help soldiers too disfigured to qualify for before-and-after documentation. 'My work begins where the work of the surgeon is completed,' stated Francis Derwent Wood (1871 - 1926), the founder of the revolutionary program."

#art #pragmaticsideofart #prosthesis #sculpture #WWI #masks #facetransplant

Ladd’s skills were in high demand, but even though she eventually, “honed her technique to the point where she could create the casts from images or photos of the men before their disfigurement,” writes Khazan, “of the nearly 3,000 or so French soldiers requiring such masks, Ladd made about ...

08/03/2021

How Mary Roach Unintentionally Became a Science Journalist and Wrote Six New York Times Bestsellers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) | Excerpt from the chapter "Life After Death" |
"Eye caps were invented by a mortician to help dead people keep their eyes shut. There have been times this morning when I wished that someone had outfitted me with a pair of eye caps. I've been standing around, eyelids up, in the basement embalming room of the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science."

#humor #science #MaryRoach #books #writing #research

Imagine reading a book about cadavers or your digestive system and laughing your butt off. Seems a bit odd, doesn’t it? Well, not if it is authored by Mary Roach, a well-known American writer who specializes in covering popular science topics with an impeccable sense of humor. Her work comes acros...

07/31/2021

How César's Compression Ricard Divided the Art World & Got My Attent

"One of his more controversial works is 'Compression 'Ricard' (1943), which consists of colorful pieces taken from different color cars that were then positioned in a hydraulic crushing machine, where the metal articulated itself in the strength and length of the press’s action."

#art #sculpture #frenchartists #CesarBaldaccini #conceptualart

Cesar was France's best-known sculptor of recent decades, yet his works provoked strongly contradictory reactions. His work, Compression "Ricard" is most famous

07/29/2021

Event Spotlight: "KUSAMA | COSMIC NATURE" now on view at the New York Botanical Garden

"Suffering from acute neurosis, Kasuma began hallucinating 'flashes of light, auras, or dense fields of dots' when she was just 10 years old. She also hallucinated more elaborate scenes, like flowers that spoke and elaborate patterns that enveloped her. To channel and deal with what she saw, she incorporated these visions into her art work throughout the years, including recent material, much of which is defined by these experiences."

#Kusama #NYBG #artexhibit #sculpture #fineart #NYC

Trained in nihonga — a traditional Japanese painting style that emphasizes the use of natural materials — and inspired by American Abstract Impressionism, Kasuma makes art that seems to perfectly blend the two. While her works are often created out of synthetic materials, her subject matter is m...

07/28/2021

The Art of Imagination: Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Sesame Street, an

Amazing shows, great values.

#sesamestreet #mrrogers #readingrainbow #PBS

Sesame Street, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, & much of Barney & Friends takes place in the “real” world. Kids are regularly encouraged to use their imaginations

07/27/2021

Music Review: “Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows” mashup by Cellophane Flowers and more

A pretty cool mashup and some Beatles trivia to boot.

#CellophaneFlowers #newmusic #TheBeatles #tribute #musicreview

In 2015, singer-songwriter Jeff Lake teamed up with Grammy-nominated violinist Susan Aquila — and company — to form “Cellophane Flowers,” a band that primarily puts a neoclassical spin on the music of The Beatles, though it also composes original music and performs songs by other classic roc...

07/23/2021

A Clockwork Orange: The omitted 21st chapter

If you saw the film but didn't read the book, you don't know the full story!

#aclockworkorange #stanleykubrick #film #Novel #anthonyburgess

Published in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is an immensely popular dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess, comprised of three sections consisting of seven chapters each.

07/21/2021

Rare Vintage Red Cross Stamps from the Former Soviet Union : A visual essay

Different yet familiar.

#RedCross #USSR #stamps #design #ArtofHealth #ARTpublika

Rare Vintage Red Cross Stamps from the Former Soviet Union : A visual essay

07/20/2021

Music Review: RiverChants by The Sound Collective

A very different and unexpected kind of EP.

#TheSoundCollective #RiverChants #newmusic #musicreview

I’m going to start off by stating that RiverChants by The Silence Collective is NOT for everybody. As a matter of fact, the EP is likely to attract a fairly specific crowd, since its highly experimental music is quite unconventional by almost every standard. Imagine, if you will, tracks full of di...

07/17/2021

Anaïs Nin Printed Her Future in New York City: Assimilation and the Letterpress

"In the winter of 1939, Anaïs Nin (1903 — 1977) fled Paris ahead of the German invasion during World War II. She boarded a hydroplane in Lisbon with as much as she could fit into two briefcases — mostly the beginnings of the third volume in her now lauded series of diaries as well as letters from friends she’d never see again. Halfway into the trip, the hydroplane briefly landed in the Azores to refuel before continuing on its journey toward New York City..."

#ARTpublika #artofprint #anaisnin #books #printing #writing

In the winter of 1939, Anaïs Nin (1903 — 1977) fled Paris ahead of the German invasion during World War II. She boarded a hydroplane in Lisbon with as much as she could fit into two briefcases — mostly the beginnings of the third volume in her now lauded series of diaries as well as letters...

07/15/2021

The Mind Behind "The Mind, Explained" on the Making of the Limited Series: A talk with Adam Cole

"Narrated by Emma Stone, the five-part mini-series — an offshoot of the Explained series on Netflix — is the brainchild of Adam Cole, the Senior Producer & Art Director of Vox Media. To examine memory, dreams, mindfulness, anxiety, and psychedelics, the science storyteller wrote and directed the show, as well as sought out and interviewed all of the featured talent."

#interview #TheMindExplained #artofhealth #science #animation

Why does the mind behave the way that it does? The Mind, Explained (2019), a documentary-style production, takes the viewer on a mixed-media journey that explores phenomena, such as why we forget what’s in the fridge, or dream about our teeth falling out, or remember things that didn’t actually ...

07/12/2021

Progressing the Arc of Automotive Power

Incredibly cool cars are just a tiny part of this awesome car club!
From sophisticated tech to original art to gourmet food, this place has a lot to offer.

#ClassicCarClub #NYC #tech #art #interview

Progressing the Arc of Automotive Power: As a member of the Classic Car Club, you have the pleasure, and the privilege of being catered to in whichever setting.

07/10/2021

The Artistic Adventure That is "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

Happy Saturday!

#gaming #gamers #nintendoswitch #Zelda #ARTpublika

“The Jōmon period in Japanese history was the inspiration for the Sheikah Slate, shrines, and all of the other ancient objects and structures in the game,” explains Nintendo’s art director Satoru Takizawa. “We ended up taking that aesthetic and using it as a base to expand upon for the game...

07/09/2021

Discover the Colorful History, Enduring Legacy and Traditional Forms of Indian Classical Dance

Fascinating art form!

#classicalindiandance #music #dance #art

The stories tend to be communicated through poetry, and the poetry is conveyed to the audience through carefully choreographed movements and gestures. “There are, for example, 13 gestures of the head, 36 different glances, and 67 mudras (hand gestures) that can, in various combinations, yield seve...

07/07/2021

Happy Birthday Frida!

#fridakahlo #kahlo #Frida #HappyBirthdayFrida #womenartists

07/06/2021

Event Spotlight: Peek Into the Original Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition Now on View in New York City

New Blog | "Being in a space full of moving art has a profoundly moving effect. You don’t necessarily register the fact that you are in a 75,000 square foot space with 500,000 cubic feet of projections, watching 60,6000 frames of video featuring 90,000,000 pixels. What you register is the emotion. And for an exhibition about an artist that was put together by other artists, that’s the goal."

Immersive Van Gogh NYC #VanGoghNYC #LighthouseImmersive #Pier36 #NYC #ARTpublika #vincentvangogh

As people exited the massive Original Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition currently on view at Pier 36 in New York City, they formed a line to take a picture of one of his most famous quotes: What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Indeed, the artist who started painting at 27 years o...

07/03/2021

Good Health Advice from the U.S. Government via Cool Vintage Posters, Circa 1940s: A visual essay

Some awesome health related public service announcements from the 1940s!

#vintage #posters #health #art #illustration #print

Good Health Advice from the U.S. Government via Cool Vintage Posters, Circa 1940s: A visual essay

07/01/2021

The Surreal and Suspenseful Filmmaking Style of David Lynch's Criminal

No one makes films quite like David Lynch!

#film #cinema #crimedrama #davidlynch #ThrowbackThursday

Born in 1946, American filmmaker David Lynch is arguably one of the most celebrated individuals in contemporary experimental cinema. When he’s not working on mo

06/30/2021

Paul Cézanne: I could paint for a hundred years

“'Paul may have the genius of a great painter,' wrote Emile Zola (1840 — 1902), Cézanne’s childhood friend and accomplished novelist. 'But he will never possess the genius to become one. He despairs at even the smallest obstacle.' Today, however, we know that Zola was wrong."

#PaulCézanne #fineart #postimpressionism #painter #arthistory

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." — Paul Cézanne (1939 — 1906)

06/29/2021

Songs About Health, or Lack Thereof, by Pink Floyd, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Nirvana

A little grunge, punk, and classic rock for ya this morning.

#music #artofhealth #punk #rock #grunge #pinkfloyd #nirvana #siouxsieandthebanshees

Songs about health, or lack thereof, by Pink Floyd, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Nirvana

06/27/2021

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06/24/2021

Talent Spotlight: The Grindhouse Radio

New Blog | "A no holds barred, madhouse of mythological proportions, GHR aims to be the public's weekly fix for pop-culture, nerdisms and all around oddball topics that relate to media and celebrity.”

#GrindhouseRadio #radio #podcast #entertainment

The award-winning Grindhouse Radio, frequently referred to as GHR, is an internationally syndicated, pop culture talk series. As a trusted destination for an exponentially growing number of fans, the show’s popularity is, in part, thanks to guest stars like comic books legend Stan Lee, celebrated ...

06/19/2021

Leonardo da Vinci’s Robots and their Modern-Day Influence

"He was also famed for his mapmaking, mathematics skills, and geology knowledge. And yet, some of his most important contributions were not to cartography, architecture, or even painting. Rather, much of da Vinci’s greatest work and influence lies in the world of robotics."

#robotics #STEM #daVinci #art #history

Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519) was a masterful artist & inventor. It's difficult to say which of his robotic endeavors had the greatest impact on modern-day STEM

06/16/2021

The Art of the Crime Novel: The enduring legacy of a gripping genre

Some great books by some incredible writers!

#crime #fiction #novels #books

The Art of the Crime Novel: The enduring legacy of a gripping genre | Our attraction to crime novels and its writers may be just as macabre as the very stories.

06/15/2021

The Dazzling Intensity of Loneliness: Carol's decadence and urban soli

How the work of Edward Hopped inspired the art direction of Carol.

#film #edwardhopper #artdirection #arthistory

Carol, with all its pictorial boundaries, manages to reach & convey boundlessness. It's not only the very condition of our times, but one that predates language

06/11/2021

Toys as a Defining Marker of Humanity

Good argument!

#toys #humanity #history #evolution #artoftoys #ThrowbackThursday

What makes something a toy may be debatable, what isn’t is that toys may be the main thing that separates Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis from animals!!!

06/07/2021

How Claude Monet Disobeyed the City Council, Planted Too Many Flowers & Painted His Water Lilies

"This is beyond the strength of an old man, and yet I want to express what I feel. I have destroyed some of the canvases. I begin once again," wrote Claude Monet about his second water lilies series in 1908.

At the end of his life, the artist created over 250 works for his most famous and celebrated collection.

#Monet #waterlilies #Impressionist #arthistory #artofwater

Intending to build something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint,” he went against the city council and seeded a lot more vegetation than he was legally allowed. Maybe that’s one of the reasons the world-famous series dominated the last 30 years of the artist’s life.

06/05/2021

Robert Mapplethorpe: A closer look at his legacy

A photographer that pushed boundaries as a person and an artist.

#robertmapplethorpe #photography #photographer #history

The photos were often gruesome or hard to look at, they made people uncomfortable, and that was the point: “I'd have a picture of fruit or flowers next to a picture of s*xuality next to a portrait of someone socially prominent. My interest was to open people's eyes, get them to realize anything ca...