Introducing Art Appreciation Week
Transpositions will be devoting the next week to Art Appreciation! Together with some guest contributors, we’ll be exploring what it means to “appreciate” art,…
The Cotton Patch Gospel: Translation In and Out of Context
There have been many translations of the Bible, one of the most famous being The King James Version, for which Transpositions is celebrating its…
Featured Artist: Deborah Haynes
Deborah J. Haynes is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Besides working as an artist in…
Art and Sustainability
The National Gallery in London recently advertised that it partnered with General Electric to “grow the first living masterpiece.” Outside the museum in Trafalgar…
The Artist as Rememberer (Part 2)
Part 2 of this post seeks to answer the questions put forth in part 1 in a more general way. I asked earlier: How…
The Artist as Rememberer (Part 1)
In an interview, Wendell Berry once remarked: “In a truly grounded, locally adapted culture, the artists would be rememberers.”[1] This statement brought up several…
Art and World-making
She was the single artificer of the world In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the…