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Hey everyone, apologies for being away for sometime. It's quite difficult to update when one is working 70-80 hour weeks. There are just 2 weeks left till the deadline and it is getting crazy. For those that for whatever reason will be in London anytime in June, and want to see what I've been working on, you can visit the Gagosian for Jeff's opening of the Hulk Elvis paintings.
That being aside, if anyone is in New York City on May 26th, you can visit the Bowery Poetry Club where I will be doing a collaborative set of work with poet, Carey Wallace for the Zoae Arts event. (7-9:30 pm, $5 per person) We are basically doing interpretative pieces with our work. She will be presenting her poems on stage and I will have works based on it, and vice versa. Hope to see you there!
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| The Existential dilemma is resolved here;
"For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." - 1 Cor 15:16-22
Have a great Resurrection Sunday.
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| So apparently Derek's new record pre-released today (a month early) only for mp3 download. Check it out (you can listen to the songs off the site) ;
http://theringingbell.com/
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| oh capital!
Thought you may enjoy some pictures from the IAM conference last weekend. If you want to see the pictures a bit larger, click on them;
Walking towards the Tribeca Center
Juried Art Exhibition
Mako opening up the conference
Panel Discussion with Joshua Trent, Gordon Pennington (marketing strategist) and Makoto Fujimura (abstract expressionist painter) on the theme of the conference ("Redemptive Culture") and their perspectives on what it means as a whole. I found it surprising that there was more disagreement on it than I had expected amongst the panelists.
Lecture on portraits from Art History.
John (poet), Mario (painter), Carey (poet, author) and a Writer hanging out after the first session
Discussion with Daniel Libeskind (left) discussing his inspirations and motivations for designing the new Freedom Tower at Ground Zero.
Me at the Cafe IAM seminar.
Cafe IAM: meeting other attendees at the conference but no coffee
Keynote: Jeremy Begbie (theologian, musician), discussing "the New"
Seminar with Gordon Pennington on "Art, Media and Propaganda." Half of the seminar dealt with "Charity Water," a nonprofit that builds wells in Africa. Amazing story.
Jimmy (painter) & Justin (painter) looking at the Hudson River. (Those buildings in the distance are New Jersey)
Mako discussing "Beauty"
Kelley McRae. (Folk singer/songwriter)
Sam (art dealer), Aenon (avante garde composer, painter) and John (artist/painter) at the IAM bookstore
....discussing their disagreements with Begbie's lecture
Jimmy reading Flannery O'Conner
A nice day in NYC
John loving the Hogaarden for the first time
Madness during lunch hour
IAM regional seminar: How to start an IAM chapter with Matson Duncan (art theorist)
Pastor's Roundtable seminar: A room full of pastors and artists discussing how to implement and engage the progressive Arts within the Church
Begbie's last session.
A group of artists from church (The Village Church) after service on Sunday discussing how to create a venue to promote artists and engage with them through dialogue and community
A snow storm and the Brooklyn Museum
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| Such Lists are usually subject to change...
Current Reading
- "Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts" - Jeremy Begbie
- "Modern Art and the Death of a Culture" - Hans Rookmaaker
To do Reading for 2007
- "Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism" - Hal Foster
- "The Anti-Aesthetic" - Hal Foster
- "The Stranger" - Albert Camus
- "Nausea" - Jean-Paul Sartre
- "The Great Gatsby" - Scott Fitzgerald
- "Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture" - Hans Rookmaaker
- "Art Needs No Justification" - Hans Rookmaaker
- "How Should We Then Live?" - Francis Schaeffer
- "Total Truth" - Nancy Pearcey (need to finish it)
- "Art and the Christian Mind: The Life and Work of HR Rookmaaker" - Laurel Gasque
- "Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic" - Nicholas Wolterstorff
- "Plowing in Hope" - David Hegeman
- "Simply Christian" - NT Wright
- "A Practical View of Christianity" - William Wilberforce
- "The Religious Affections" - Jonathan Edwards
- "Institutes of the Christian Religion" - John Calvin (still working through it)
- "A New Systematic Theology" - Robert Reymond (still working through it)
- "No Place for Truth" - David Wells
- "Above All Earthly Powers: Christ in a Postmodern World" - David Wells
- "The Authority and Inspiration of Scripture" - BB Warfield
- "A Christian View of Men and Things" - Gordon Clark (need to finish it)
To do Reading for the long run
- "Suma Theologica" - Thomas Aquinas
- "The City of God" - St Augustine
- "The Critique of Pure Reason" - Immanuel Kant
- "Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding" - David Hume
- "Christian Origins and the Question of God" - NT Wright
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