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Arts RSS FeedsWhere do we go from here? · R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe - The sequence of events that produced the current deadlock in Zimbabwe began on 11 March last year when Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of other members of the Movement for Democratic Change were arrested, tortured and beaten. Robert Mugabe had banned all MDC meetings and rallies in the hope of suppressing the MDC completely before this year's elections....Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Free-Marketeering · Stephen Holmes on Naomi Klein - The anti-globalisation movement suffered a dizzying setback on 9/11. Symbolic gatecrashing into the well-guarded meeting places of the super-rich suddenly seemed a much more sinister activity than before. Busting up branches of Starbucks and other Seattle-style antics became anathema in an atmosphere of injured and vindictive patriotism. But Naomi Klein, the combative theorist and publicist of anti-globalisation, was not about to accept such guil... Art Is a Cupboard! · Tony Wood on Daniil Kharms - An old woman leans out of her window and, 'because of her excessive curiosity', leans too far: she falls to the ground and shatters to pieces. A second old woman leans out of her window to see what has happened to the first - and also leans too far, tumbling to the same fate. More women follow suit (a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth), a chain that ends only because the narrator of this story, 'sick of watching them', breaks off to go to the mar... End-of-the-World Trade · Donald MacKenzie on the credit crisis - Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks' headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund's St James's office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-the-world trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against what would in effect be the failure of the modern capit... The Divisions of Cyprus · Perry Anderson - Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels. The furthest east of all the EU's new acquisitions, even if the most prosperous and democratic, has been a tribulation to its establishment, one that neither fits the uplifting narrative of the deliverance of cap... Frocks and Shocks · Hilary Mantel on Jane Boleyn - You may fear, from the title of this book, that they've found yet another 'Boleyn girl'. The subject of this biography has already been fearlessly minced into fiction by the energetic Philippa Gregory. But there is no sign so far that another inert and vacuous feature film will be clogging up the multiplexes. In reworkings of the Tudor soap opera, Jane Boleyn is more often known as Jane Rochford, wife of George Boleyn, sister-in-law to Anne the q... The Special Motion of a Hand · T.J. Clark: Courbet and Poussin at the Met - Once or twice in a lifetime, if you are lucky, the whole madness of painting seems to pass in front of your eyes. It felt that way to me in New York this spring, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where two great exhibitions - one exploring Nicolas Poussin's role in the invention of the genre we call 'landscape', the other an endless, stupendous retrospective of Gustave Courbet - are happening a few corridors apart.... Nothing in a Really Big Way · James Wood on Adam Mars-Jones - Like Welch's work, Pilcrow gets nowhere very elegantly. Adam Mars-Jones has been celebrated for the slenderness of his work, increasingly for its non-existence, as if his career were an exercise in negative theology. Pilcrow is not only very long; it measures its length in such tiny units that at times you feel that a version of Zeno's paradox will stop you from ever reaching its end.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 9... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 9... Are your drawings in soft focus? - I hadn't realized that I was gradually holding my book further and further away. The first memorable sign was not being able to focus on a splinter to catch ... How to Draw Hair - One of the biggest problems I see with beginner portrait drawings is problem hair. Usually, we try to draw each hair as a strand, with a single pencil-stroke. This ... What is Gesture Drawing? - Gesture drawing, also called gestural drawing, is an expressive, intuitive drawing based on a close and thoughtful observation of the subject in space. Gesture drawing attempts to capture the essence ... Pencil Shading Exercise -
Try this easy pencil shading exercise to develop your range of tone. One of the big mistakes beginner artists make is to draw too lightly, or less often, to draw ... Drawing Exercise: Blind Contour Drawing - A classic exercise for developing the eye-hand connection, improving observation and freeing up your line, Blind Contour Drawing is often learnt as a student and then forgotten about. If you ... Beginner Drawing Exercise - Wire Drawing - Whenever I start teaching a group of new students, the first thing I get them to do is to draw a picture of their own hands. This is to serve ... Giclee Printing FAQ - Giclee Printing isn't just for big-selling major artists. It can be a cost-effective way of making your artwork affordable for the general public, allows more than one person to enjoy ... Brian Curtis: Drawing from Observation - University of Miami drawing lecturer, Brian Curtis, has made a valuable addition to the artist's bookshelf with his book, 'Drawing from Observation: an introduction to perceptual drawing'. The book is ... Drawing Charcoal - Have you tried charcoal drawing yet? Some people love it, some hate it - the latter often because its a bit messy well a lot messy, but that's part of ... Drawing Shiny Metal in Colored Pencil - This short illustrated tutorial on drawing shiny metal in colored pencil shows how a drawing is worked up layer-by-layer and offers some tips on drawing shiny and reflective objects. Though ... Copyright © 2008, Curse Buster Sound. All Rights Reserved. |