Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates:  16 February - 26 May 2013 I don't often say this about an artist but OMG, I am in love! Five years before Wassily Kandinsky (he of the book Concerning the Spiritual In Art 1910), before Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, the images of Carl Jung (The Red Book) and Rudolf Steiner (Blackboard Drawings 1919-1924… Read more… 2,342 more words ...

What better way to start the Sunday, than read again a poem by Rabindranath Tagore I had ferreted away. This photo taken in my house on the 1 January 2010, as beautiful as it is, is a constant reminder of the fragility of moments, and why we need to let our laughter flush in meaningless mirth. .. Lotus flower. 1 ...

By James Lim  Mark Seliger made a name for himself in the nineties with his now iconic portraiture work for Rolling Stone magazine. From that memorable shot of the nude Red Hot Chili Peppers to one of the last portraits of Kurt Cobain, Seliger quickly cemented his status as one of the leading portrait photographers of his time. The ...

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 31st January - 26th May 2013 "I like it when one is not certain of what one sees. We don't know why the photographer has taken such a picture. If we look and look, we begin to see and are still left with the pleasure of uncertainty." . "It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it." Read more… 2,239 more words

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 26th January - 19th May 2013 The more I see the work of this outstanding artist, the more I fall in love with it. There is just a beautiful lyricism here - nothing extraneous or superfluous within the picture frame, sensitively balanced photographs that are whimsical and engaging. A woman and her dog in Harlem, ...

Last night, well past 1 am, while my Nugegoda neighbourhood slept and pole cats frolicked on my rooftop, I sat listening to a lesser known Dvorak piece:  “Zypressen for String Quartet”.  The sender Dale Hammond had said “…helps me to feel words and to see and feel characters in a story…almost like with the music I can reach out and touch ...

For all of us who remembered our mothers on Mother’ Day, there are an equal number or more of children who didn’t for reasons of their own. This beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore, is for them with love. … Blue skies through the coconut trees at Siriniwas Hikkaduwa. Photograph© Chulie de Silva I cannot remember my mother, only sometime in ...

Handwritten letters on crumbling aerogrammes or paper thin airmail paper are precious items storing vignettes of family life that are often forgotten. Combined with phtographs they bring to life the person and paints an unmatched portrait of the writer and the rest of the family members. Often outrageous, frank, funny, my father’s letters are a portrait of the romantic he ...

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 22nd March - 18th May 2013 Undertaking research in to the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole, I wanted to know more about "South African colonial photography" pre-Apartheid. If you type the phrase into Google images there is absolutely nothing online about this historical archive. So it is a great privilege that The Walther ...

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 30th January - 12th May 2013 Dead at 30 Died so young Probably at the barrel of a snub nosed gun. Guilt, narcissism, parody or irony Doesn't matter now He's dead... Photos live on . Many thankx to the Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on ...

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 26th January - 12th May 2013 A second tranche of images from this touring exhibition of photographs from the MoMA collection, presented at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth. My personal favourites in this posting are the tonal Abbott, mean streets Gedney, luminous Groover and the intimate Burckhardt. There are two photographers ...

It was on a rain-washed morning like today, that I drove to Bentota to see for the first time Geoffrey Bawa’s famed Lunuganga Estate. Bawa is Sri Lanka’s legendary architect and Lunuganga has been described as his “first muse and experimental laboratory for ideas.” Michael Ondaatje, the writer, poet, is quoted as saying the gardens were “self portraits” and leafing ...

Hard to believe that the World Wide Web went public only twenty years ago. It brings a whole lot of memories of how I got hooked on to the web then. I had first read in 1986 about the coming of  a “network’ that would revolutionise the way we communicated in a scientific journal at the Ceylon Institute of Scientific ...

Reblogged from The Daily Post: This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Aaron Joel Santos. Culture. Culture is a bit of a loaded word. In a photograph, it can embody everything and nothing. So where do we draw the line? Shopping culture, hippy culture, Asian culture, Thai culture, ancient culture, and on and on. These phrases have different meanings. ...

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 23rd Feb 2013 - 12th May 2013 Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth century was discovered in a garden shed in Chatswood. In time, the find proved to be the most important photographic documentation of goldfields life in Australia. ...

Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 17th February - 5th May 2013 Further images from this impressive exhibition devoted to the art of photographic manipulation before the advent of digital imagery from its second stop, at The National Gallery of Art, Washington. . Many thankx to the National Gallery of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. ...

I went to school and grew up in a very Buddhist enclave in Panadura called “Nalluruwa” and I wondered what the connection was to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple as I wandered in to this famed Hindu Kovil on a cool balmy evening in 2009  The aura of peace and calm surrounding this most revered place of worship for God Skanda ...

I went to school and grew up in a very Buddhist enclave in Panadura called “Nalluruwa” and I wondered what the connection was to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple as I wandered in to this famed Hindu Kovil on a cool balmy evening in 2009. The aura of peace and calm surrounding this most revered place of worship for God Skanda ...

It’s hard to believe that the now posh cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Dupont Circle was once home to a slaughter house and a brickyard. There had also been a creek, Slash Run, within a block of Dupont Circle, but the creek has since been enclosed in a sewer line. I loved to stay at Dupont Circle whenever I got a chance ...

by Faseeh Shams For the hijras in Pakistan, dance and song is the only way to earn a respectable living, as their presence is considered auspicious on wedding and childbirth celebrations. However they are not treated as equals unanimously by the conservative and liberal sections of Pakistani society. They live in secluded communities with their own kind, often in extreme ...