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A new mural is available, a very small section of which is pictured to the right.

April 24, 1851 is a tryptich. You can view the full screen version here.

bend of bay murals are designed to fit a wall of any size. More murals….

We have added a new section, Murals. Each mural was designed to be projected or installed on a wall of any size.

The selection available here will change from time to time.

For additional information on any mural, contact bend of bay.

If you associate Seurat with pointillism, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and not much more, then you probably need to visit the exhibition of his drawings currently on show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. While the show focuses a lot of attention on the relationship of his drawings to his paintings, what struck me was how brilliant he was working in black and white. His portraits and studies of the human form are mesmerizing in the way he draws the form out through shading with his comté crayon. Aside from the obvious contribution to painting, the drawings are better compared to a kind of impressionistic black and white photography.

Georges Seurat - The Drawings runs through January 7, 2008

Going through the archives I rediscovered a  piece of mail art received in December 2004 from Ryosuke Cohen. It is part of his Brain Cell project. The original is 11 x 17. The image below doesn’t quite do it justice, since my scanner is marginal.  You can see more examples of his work on his flikr page.

The Brain Cell project was started in 1985 and to the best of my knowlege it is still active.  For more information on Ryosuke Cohen, visit his home page. Specific information regarding participation in Brain Cell is at the bottom of the page.

Some time ago, Ralph Lichtensteiger sent a message to SILENCE, the John Cage mailing list, requesting ”… stories about your experience with the phenomena of Silence and noise …”  

The result is Silence/Stories, a print ready 66 page pdf file that includes the stories, images and bios of the contributors. Contributors represent a wide array of backgrounds. Some worked with John Cage. Others wrote about him, or used some of his methods and ideas in their own work.  (Full disclosure - this post was written by a contributor, although not one of those referred to in the previous  two sentences). Some stories include anecdotes or responses to John Cage, and others describe “Cage influenced listening.”  You can downdoad the PDF here  or here.

New additions to the magazine include Post-Warhol and November 9. Both were intended to fill a wall, but have been adapted for the center column of their respective pages.

Woman with Wood, Elephanta Island

I have just set up a bookstore, of sorts, using Amazon’s new aStore service. The link also appears in the sidebar. The store is quite simple and generally features authors and music I happen to care about or to be listening to at the moment.  As with every other link on these pages, any commissions I collect are donated, in turn, to one of two food banks in New Jersey, U.S.A.