Episode 80: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 1, Summe...

This is the sixth of a series of auto-bio vignette webcomics, a form of Flash-lit, as sequential art, podcast and video. You can see the original comic on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Spoutible or at the new blog site I made for them: https://brandlflashmemoirvignettes. ...  Show more

In March, a huge group of podcasters are posting episodes supporting charities of their choice. The action is called PODCASTHON, from 14 March to 20 March 2026. My episode concerns a wonderful project by an excellent former student of mine, Maria Zemchugova Bovkoun and her husban ...  Show more

Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art were once contemporary. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, and gives the ...  Show more

Centuries before Proust's Remembrance of Things Past took us on a tour of memory and James Joyce played with stream of consciousness, a 16th century nobleman - Michel de Montaigne - developed a wholly new style of reflective prose that examined his place in the world. ...

Wassily Kandinsky was an artist, teacher and art theorist in the early 20th century. His work was very influential in the development of modern, abstract art. He was likely able to paint differently because he experienced the world differently. Kandinsky is thought to have had a ...  Show more

Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor who made a significant impact on modern art through his abstract sculptures. His passion and dedication to art is legendary. In the autumn of 1903, he began a months-long walk from Bucharest to Paris, where he sought to immerse himself ...  Show more