Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Tales from the kitchen of Thailand’s most gruesome baker

Artist Kittiwat Unarrom bakes bread in the shape of bloody body parts to portray his religious beliefs, and they taste really good too.
Article here: http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/play/tales-kitchen-thailands-goriest-baker-510619

Death and food are, after all, intimately related.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

The Shining Abyss of a Language

WHEN Walter Spies arrived in Bali, he found a culture completely devoted to art, yet to which the notion of art for art's sake was alien. The Balinese have no word for "artist"; painting, carving stone and wood, weaving, playing a musical instrument, and, above all, dancing were just what one did when not fishing or working in the rice fields.