He entered the stage seeming overjoyed and filled with artistic fury, words pent up in his head ready to spill. .
To Rivers's right is an artistic collage of words, compiled by his daughter, Callie, for which each of his four children had to contribute a few descriptive words upon mention of their father's name.
The exhibition's overall effect is heavy with the personalities, products and relics of hip-hop, yet curiously untouched by its artistic vigor: the words, sounds and moving bodies that are the essence of hip-hop are nearly invisible here.
Language was "a way of getting out of myself," Waldrop writes, while remaining "irredeemably between cultures" (her native German, the American idiom of her artistic maturity) and words: the gaps that await gardening.
In Camus' words, artistic activity is one of the key attitudes to face the absurd.
His scientific writing is informed by a rare literary and artistic sensibility in his words, "Expression and shape mean almost more to me than knowledge itself".
In other words, artistic creation requires the exercise of an active receptivity we might call ontological response-ability, that is, an ability to respond to the inchoate ways in which being offers itself to intelligibility.
The effort was met by derision and scorn by many, among them celebrities who argued the words' artistic merit and those who noted that there are a host of more important issues plaguing our community.
Tucked away in a Williamsburg studio, multimedia artist Scott Kiernan has for several years been creating an artistic corpus wherein words and found images both still and moving get funneled variously through analog or digital technologies, often back and forth between the two.
