Conceptual Art in the real world

IS THIS ART?

Elliot Smith

Have you listened to Elliot Smith before? When i Lived in Portland i used to see him out singing karoake or sitting in the back of the same bus on the way downtown. Check out this video. There are interviews with him on Youtube. What do you think of his music? The story of his life/death?

MAGNUM PHOTO ARCHIVES

Click on the link below and check out the photo archives.  Look at the war photos section. What is the most impacting photo to you? Why?

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/

what about this poem?

Read Your Fate

A world’s disappearing. Little street, You were too narrow, Too much in the shade already. You had only one dog, One lone child. You hid your biggest mirror, Your undressed lovers. Someone carted them off In an open truck. They were still naked, travelling On their sofa Over a darkening plain, Some unknown Kansas or Nebraska With a storm brewing. The woman opening a red umbrella In the truck. The boy And the dog running after them, As if after a rooster With its head chopped off. Charles Simic WHAT IS THIS POEM SAYING ABOUT THE DIASAPPEARING WORLD AND/OR YOUR FATE?

welcome to the laboratory

 Let’s get out the microscope and look at the world around us- don’t be scared