MobiusOuroboros

How is it that I only just learned about MetPublications?!? The site offers five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search FOR FREE!!! Here's what I have, thus far, shamelessly and oh so giddily downloaded: Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Educators Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus Art of the Islamic World: A Resource for Educators The Art of South and Southeast Asia: A Resource for Educators Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in th

Video by David Shiyang Liu    "Nobody tells people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me, is that all of us who do creative work, like, y'know, we get into it, and we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there's a gap. That for the first couple years you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good, okay? It's not that great. It's trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it's not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, your taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you're making is kind of a disappointment to y

 "Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. That solves a lot of problems. Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen … [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you." —  Brian Eno