New Online, and Physical, Location

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Changes. That is what is up, and I’m not just referring to the seasons. I moved Art Ravels over to WordPress, and hopefully you will find that the redirect from www.artsravel.blogspot.com is working. The new permanent address of the blog is www.linneawest.com/blog. I hope you’ll bookmark it, or add/update it in your reader of choice. There’s a link under Subscribe on the left that allows you to follow the blog via RSS, feed reader, or email.

View of Pest from the Buda Hills

I am writing this from Budapest, where I will be living for the upcoming year. As I mentioned earlier this summer, I have been awarded a grant to research contemporary Hungarian art. I am beyond excited and, as you can imagine, this means I’ll be writing more about art in Hungary and Europe and less about New York City. I also have started a personal blog about the experience here: www.ayearinbudapest.wordpress.com. I’d be thrilled to have you follow me there as well.

I’ve lived in New York since 2006 (except for one long hiatus) and have blogged here since 2008, so these are big changes, but definitely ones I feel good about. Thanks to all you who have read, commented, and followed me! It’s been a pleasure reading your blogs and following your thoughts and life changes as well. I hope you’ll stick with me during this next part.

Color Redux

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A run down of great links on color, what it is and how we see it as well as how other species perceive it, how our perception has changed historically, and what we could see in the future:

  • Secondly, two articles that borrow heavily from the Radiolab episode but goes on to address how naming colors impacts our ability to see them in more detail: here and here.
  • Thirdly, a TED Talk by an artist who has never seen color but, thanks to a device he has created, can now hear it: here.

And I’ll throw in some of my own posts to round things off:

RGB Colorspace Atlas by Tara Auerbach and Mantis Shrimp
http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2012/07/rgb-colorspace-atlas-and-mantis-shrimp.html
Making Color: about Victoria Finlay’s history of color
http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2011/12/color.html
Celadon Talking Jars
http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2011/12/celadon-talking-jars.html
Black’s historical uses
http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2011/12/back-to-black.html
based on ARTNews’s article
http://www.artnews.com/2011/11/24/the-color-that-wasn%E2%80%99t-a-color/
The making of red, orange, and yellow
http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-orange-yellow.html

In the Archives: Lowell Boyers

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Red Boat, White Paint, Still Travelling, 2010

Going through my drafts archives, I found this unposted image of a Lowell Boyer’s painting. More of the artist’s mixed media works on paper and canvas can be found on his website, all a bit phantasmagorical, beautiful layered, even decorative like a China pattern gone wrong. I believe I saw this at the Von Lintel Gallery’s booth at an art fair last year…but much like the figures in these works, the memory is unclear.