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28 Jan 2023
This is the story of Differential Expansion. 4 years ago, work started on anish kapoor’s 85 ton bean which is tucked under herzog de meuron’s 56 Leonard st. Last summer, though, the bean ruptured because the exposed side of bean expanded more in the hot sun than
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Gothic drawing: lost art of thinking plans, ornament, and elevations simultaneously.
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This NYC weekend captured in sound: Art Blakey’s “Caravan” rhythms from 1962. Shakespeare in the Park performance where Romeo and Juliet’s soliloquies drift between English and Spanish, collapsing 1594 into the present. The roar of a Knicks championship, echoing for the first time since 1973. Walk around Steve Reich’s Four Sections orchestral piece from 1987.
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Steve reich music in Diller scofidio David geffen hall space.
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11 Sep 2022
Hockney iPad painting process. He documented Covid lockdown by making daily drawings of his gardens in Normandie.
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28 Jul 2022
Hockney’s sketchbook. Idea #317 make a diary but no words, just a drawing a day.
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21 Sep 2022
Hockney iPad painting 4/15/2020. Lines and dots, and lines of dots.
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15 Sep 2022
Idea 356, the timescape. Hockney provides multiple views of event from multiple angles. Time starts flowing through image. Here a competition between a couple over a crossword where the photos start when the woman starts writing her answer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZFm_G…
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18 Aug 2023
David Hockney, “I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.”
Look under the hood. Scenes from the Morgan Library Hockney drawing from life exhibit here
—> youtu.be/SWFedZpc7JY
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8 Oct 2023
After seeing David Hockney’s iPad drawings I was inspired to illustrate my ski misadventures for this twitter thread comic: Life of a Ski Bum
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15 Sep 2022
1982, hockney makes hundreds of polaroid collages inspired by the complex perspectives of cubist paintings. picasso guitar, left, vs hockney guitar, right.
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14 Sep 2022
Hockney breaking out of the restrictive constraints of 1 point perspective using cubist photographic studies he called 'joiners'... (multiple vanishing points on figures to simulate natural eye movement which roams around space)
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