January 16, 2012
How to Make an Amazon Kindle Book using HTML and CSS
A tutorial on how to make an Amazon Kindle book using HTML, CSS, Amazon KindleGen, and Amazon Previewer.
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A tutorial on how to make an Amazon Kindle book using HTML, CSS, Amazon KindleGen, and Amazon Previewer.
Adam Gopnik writes a terrific essay this week in the New Yorker on three cultural responses to the internet: “it’s gonna kill us all,” “it’s the best thing ever,” and “we’ve been here before, quit freaking out.” I’m a strong believer in the last position and especially disdain the way criticism of youth gets conflated with the criticism of technology.
A fake interview with Bruce Nauman about his work of art, “Days.”
The iPad is to computing in 2010 as the Kodak camera was to photography back in 1888. In that year George Eastman registered Kodak as a trademark and coined the phrase “You Press the Button and We Do the Rest” thus introducing the concept of a “snapshot” and expanding access to photography beyond a niche, [...]
The decline of art world money through the thickness of ArtForum.
Vincent Roman has posted an outstanding review of the Whitney’s new website.
A review of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s relaunched website, whitney.org
The gall. From the press release of an upcoming show at the Brooklynite Gallery titled “Go Get Your Shinebox”: With the global economic downturn and the hardship it has caused blue-collar workers throughout, we find it fitting to explore the world’s simplest way to make a living- SHINING SHOES. We are planning an exhibition around [...]
The Bruce High Quality Foundation – the precocious little collaborative than can – is launching an arts education university to redress the “problem” of arts education today
Some thoughts I had about Clyfford Still while looking at one of his color field paintings at MoMA
The Hammer Museum website is a knockout that weaves together many threads of programming into a cohesive and compelling visitor experience.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern art (SFMOMA) has redesigned their website, sfmoma.org, after more than 8 years. The new site takes few risks, adhering to conservative and time-tested user interface and design standards. As a result, it’s a success – head and shoulders above most of the museum websites in its class.
Of course, it’s not perfect but first with the good and then with the bad:
The SFMOMA’s two massive Sol LeWitt atrium wall drawings – the last works still up from his retrospective in 2000 – are being painted over to make room for an upcoming Martin Puryear installation.
It doesn’t sadden me that they’re no longer on view. Because the instruction set is the kernel of the work and can lead to infinite authentic resurrections, the piece is simply in one less place. What’s more poignant to me is that after eight years the exhibition that changed the course of my personal, artistic, and professional life has finally concluded.
In memoriam to Grizzly Garvin (1988 – 2008) who died today at age 20. Long will you be loved and remembered by our family for your generous licks, inquisitive animal nature, and courage of conviction. Rest soundly, little kit.
“Second Stage” is a music show from National Public Radio with a mission that differs from its manifold peers: it only plays musicians not signed to record labels. Producer Robin Hilton scours CDs sent from musicians all around the country and podcasts a few selected tracks each day. It’s a rare opportunity to listen to [...]
Buffalo, New York used to be a boom town. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and Buffalo was one of its biggest beneficiaries. Home to steel plants, grain mills, and railroad intersections, wealth boomed. In 1900 it was the 8th largest city in the country. Now it’s 46th. [...]
An open letter to emerging artists on how to get seen.
This is a sad day for me. Sol LeWitt is dead. He was and still is a massive influence on me in terms of understanding art, making art, and looking at it. After I saw his retrospective in 2000 at SFMOMA, I felt that I finally had an entrée into the obtuse art practice that [...]
November 27, 2005 The Egon Schiele show at the Neue Gallery is a must-see. Schiele’s a master of the expressive capacity of line. His work of nearly all portraits of men and women are direct, emotional, and unglamorized. I’m one to shy away from emotion in art but I think I’m coming around… Take a [...]