Category: Arthur Mulder
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How Videogames Solve Art’s Oldest Problem
Read more: How Videogames Solve Art’s Oldest ProblemGame of Goose, by José Guadalupe Posada The videogame is a young artform. It’s roughly 500,000 years younger than architecture; 72,936 years younger than art; and 4,061 years younger than literature. An odd road it’s been from the Kalambo River wood structure, Leang Karampuang cave painting, and Epic of Gilgamesh to Steve Russel’s Spacewar! Despite…
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Essay on Vacation Photography, or, How to Love the World as Much as it Deserves
Read more: Essay on Vacation Photography, or, How to Love the World as Much as it DeservesFrom a young age I have been perplexed by a specific brand of tourism. A particular type of sightseer in museums. They walk up to some priceless, timeless, boundless masterpiece. They photograph it, photograph the little plaque next to it and move on; seeing only through the screen of their digital camera the paint’s little…
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How to Murder Art Correctly, or, Why Horror Allegories Work.
Read more: How to Murder Art Correctly, or, Why Horror Allegories Work.Vuelo de Brujas, by Francisco Goya The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders The deeper meaning of a text, if not deep enough, swallows the whole text like quicksand, leaving only a brief moment of understanding and no moment of reflection. The events, language, and implications – the surface of narrative – should be…
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Art about Art, Psychopaths About Directors
Read more: Art about Art, Psychopaths About DirectorsArt is said to be an expression of the inexpressible. It is about the things all other human expression cannot be about. But more often than not, what art really is about is making art. While an artist is creating, he might ponder politics, life, or love – but what he most certainly thinks about…
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Country Music: the Peaks and Valleys of Small-Town-Problems
Read more: Country Music: the Peaks and Valleys of Small-Town-ProblemsBetty Boots on Music Row, by Tim Bagwell With 2024 fading into the brown-backroad-haze of our collective rearview-mirror, smudged further by the revved up dirt of an already historically tumultuous January, it becomes possible to view the year as a whole and begin to guess at its role in history. The year of war and…
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