Worthy words on collaboration: Artists like Diana Smith can make digital oil paintings out of computer code; sculptors are laying down their chisels and ordering 3D printers; bands can link produce hits without ever meeting in person. Technology opens new lines of communication and creation, and portals to the art world pop up everywhere: the […]
Coleridge
Paint and pot
Picture the scene: your creative writing deadline is rapidly approaching, you’ve completely run out of ideas, and then the internet tells you that Ernest Hemingway – one of America’s most celebrated writers – once said: “write drunk, edit sober”. In such desperate (hypothetical) circumstances, you’d perhaps be forgiven for thinking that it might just work. […]
Art to Art: Madison Stewart
A few weeks ago I was wandering around a bookshop in London and I came across a new series of Penguin Classics, 80 little black books, each 80p. I wanted to buy all of them, but one title caught my eye: ‘Well, they are gone, and here I must remain’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The […]