Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail—Aby Warburg
It’s summer, and certainly time for a vacation. Perhaps you find yourself in that icon of Americana, Walt Disney World. Look up. There, the centerpiece of Magic Kingdom rises: Cinderella Castle. Disney officials cite the architecture of Versailles and Loire Valley chateaus as sources for the castle’s design....
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The printed word is not yet an antiquated notion, but there are those who proclaim its death knell is fast approaching, pointing to electronic media as both its upstart replacement and cause of death. Then again, there are those who would insist on the death of God, painting, and rock and roll; for all...
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In his most recent body of work, Gypsy Acid Queen, Charles Westfall wrestles with female archetypes of aggression, power, and violence. “Violence,” declares Westfall, “like anything else, is gendered and comes in masculine and feminine varieties.” References to gender in this brief body of four works are oblique, but persistent. In one smaller work,...
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The map is not the territory. —Alfred Korzybski
Atlanta. Summer, 1885. Rising forty feet into the heavy air, Theodore Davis surveyed from the top of his platform at Moreland Avenue the same land he had recorded as a Civil War illustrator for Harper’s Weekly two decades before. Joined by a team of German artists to...
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