The Beautiful View

The notion of the “future” as a distinct category of time emerged gradually over the course of the modern era, which began in the 16th century and extends to the present day. During this period, there were major changes in economic, social, and cultural structures that led to the emergence of new ways of thinking about time and the future.
Since the Enlightenment, the idea of the future has become a central aspect of modern culture and society. From science fiction to futurism, from strategic planning to personal goal-setting, the future is a pervasive and powerful concept that shapes the way we think about our lives and our world.

What is Modern Art?

One day, a long time ago, when young Alfred Barr, Jr. was in Paris, he visited Gertrude Stain in her Salon. During the conversation he told Gertrude about the plans for establishing the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Puzzled she looked at him with a smile: “That’s nice, but I don’t understand how it can be both, museum and modern?”

The Making of Modern Art

Once, in the early age of modernity, there was a civilization that invented the art as a way of  reflecting the world.  Art was understood as an intellectual activity expressed through painting and sculpture by specially gifted individuals named artists. In order to show works of art, first the galleries and exhibitions had to be invented. Then, the art market and the museums emerged and a notion of art spread to all epochs and civilizations.

The Unmaking of Art

It is most likely that the next paradigm  will be meta in relation to the present. It will have many characteristics of the pre-modern world, something like the  modernity seen through the medieval glasses.
 Walter Benjamin – Recent Writings 2014

Tales of the Artisans

Tales of the Artisans is a collection of stories about art, art history, exhibitions, galleries, museums and people that invented them. The earliest seems to have appeared 1999 in the book: Collection of Drawings of an Art Amateur (dated MCM) and since then some of them have been published on various occasions.