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Log24 Has Moved

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

New posts and archives for Log24
are now at m759.net/wordpress/.

ART WARS for St. Luke's Day:

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A Sermon from Christchurch
in The New York Times

Related material:

Zen and the Art
and
For the Burning Man

Noncontinuous Groups:

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:30:00 GMT

A page with this title has been added to my finite-geometry site.

(For the first version of that site, see a web page cached on August 15, 2000; compare with Ivars Peterson's August 28, 2000, column "Scrambled Grids." These pieces are clearly intended for two different audiences, but there is a certain similarity in the subject matter.)

ART WARS:

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:29:00 GMT

Singer 7-Cycles

Click on images for details.

The 1985 Cullinane version
gives some algebraic background
for the 1987 Curtis version.

The Singer referred to above is James Singer. See his "A Theorem in Finite Projective Geometry and Some Applications to Number Theory," Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 43 (1938), 377-385.

For other singers, see Art Wars and today's obituaries.

Some background: the Log24 entry of this date seven years ago, and the entries preceding it on Las Vegas and painted ponies.

Man and His Symbols:

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Wakes

This morning's New York Times reports the deaths of Nuremberg interrogator Richard W. Sonnenfeldt and of avant-garde novelist and Beckett scholar Raymond Federman.

Symbols from this journal on the dates of their deaths:

For Sonnenfeldt, who died
on Friday, Oct. 9,
a symbol from that date:

For connotations of the symbol appropriate to the name Sonnenfeldt, see the link to A Sunrise for Sunrise in the entry of Saturday, Oct. 10.

For Federman, who died
on Tuesday, Oct. 6,
a symbol from that date:

A quotation that appeared here on Wednesday, Oct. 7, seems relevant to Federman:

But I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. You are a poorjoist, unctuous to polise nopebobbies....

-- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Annals of Aesthetics:

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Happy Columbus Day

Part I and Part II

ART WARS:

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Concepts of Space

Today I revised the illustrations
in Finite Geometry of the
Square and Cube
for consistency in labeling
the eightfold cube.

Related material:

Inside the White Cube:
The Ideology of
the Gallery Space

Dagger Definitions

ART WARS review:

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT

A Sunrise
for Sunrise

Related material:

This morning's obituaries

(click to enlarge)

and Zen and Language Games

ART WARS

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Identity:

"...strict grids of nine pictures
establish an egalitarian
framework...."

-- Christopher Knight

Some are more
egalitarian
than others.

Aesthetics continued,,,

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:30:00 GMT

Knight Moves

Deborah Solomon, New York Times Magazine, Sunday, June 27, 1999:

"While modern art began as an assault on the academy, post-modern art might be described as a return to the academy. Instead of the old academy of rules, now we have the Academy of Cool, schools that treat avant-garde rebellion as a learned occupation."

Christopher Knight, LA Times art critic, on Solomon:

"Back in the day, Solomon interviewed Knight for a Times Magazine story on Los Angeles art schools. 'Having been a journalist (at that time) for almost two decades, I also did my homework,' Knight writes [in a letter to the New York Press]. 'I prepared a couple of quotable quotes on the subject, which might encapsulate larger ideas.' One of Knight's pearls of wisdom, 'Modern art began as an assault on the academy, but post-modern art might be described as a return to the academy,' excited Solomon so much that, according to Knight, she printed it as her own observation in her final piece, which bore no mention of the Knight interview. In the final story, a seriously bitter Knight writes, 'It was not a quote; my words had become her words.'" --Gawker, Oct. 11, 2007

A reference to Solomon's piece appeared in this journal in 2003.

See also yesterday's entry, today's 9 AM entry, and (for the Academy) an example of knight's move thinking.