The Common System

Really digging this combination of images and words.

via But Does it Float

"According to the common system, before the creation of Matter, there was nothing but God, whose essence is immutable, and cannot be the pre-existent subject of Bodies"

Christopher Wilmarth at Betty Cunningham Gallery

Another excellent post by talented art blogger Caleb De Jong, about one of the great underrated modernists.

“’No longer is heavenly distance the preferred escape. The learning self defends.’

What I am trying to say here is that with my work of the past eight years I have tried to make sculptures that evoke a spiritual disembodied state close to that of reverie; the kind of perfection that I found during my ‘revelations’ or ‘epiphanies’. I have avoided in my recent sculpture poetry directly tied to the imperfect, earthly world of flesh and matter. I have the need to be in and of that imperfect world again and make my poems from its stuff…”  - Christopher Wilmarth

Christopher Wilmarth at Betty Cunningham Gallery

Sebastien Leclercq

Subtle, minimal, off-putting drawing. I like it.

Sebastien Leclercq

Openings This Weekend

Two good openings I won't make it to this weekend. If you are in Portland, ME check out "The Things we Carry: New Work by Kyle Bryant" at Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (29 Forrest Ave.) tonight. If you are in NYC Saturday check out Sebastien Leclercq at Fountain Studios (604 Grand Ave. Brooklyn).

Center for the Art of East Asia Chinese Handscroll Database

The Center for the Art of East Asia has initiated a project to create a database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format. More archives like this please.

Rebecca Arnoldi

Boston artist Rebecca Arnoldi. Painting and drawing with a strong ecological and spiritual side to it. The "Inside and Out" series resonated particularly strongly with me.

RSA Talks

RSA animated talks. What TED talks want to be when they grow up.

Gertrude Goldschmidt

"I believed in the infinite seriality of time, in a growing and reeling net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. that entanglement of times growing near, growing out, intersecting or secularly ignoring themselves, embraces all possibilities."

Jorge Luis Borges, the Garden of Forking Paths, 1941

The Art of Memory Blog has some really good Gertrude Goldschmidt drawings up accompanied by excerpts from texts written by Paul Klee, Jorge Luis Borges, and Phillippe Jaccottet.

http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/2008/04/between-transparency-and-invisible.html

Gerald Hayes Drawing

Seen at MoMA, in the "Compass in Hand" drawing show. Sweet drawing.