Today's Wednesday Wonder is psychologist Elayne Lansford's "Bottle World", a magical healing garden.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/wednesday-wonder-bottle-world-healing.html

I've posted a new poem, "Mother Russia", for today's photo prompt at Magpie Tales, Chagall's painting "The Promenade":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/mother-russia-poem.html

Karibu Reader and Happy Father's Day!

Toronto is finally warm and I find myself inexorably pulled outside basking in the sun.

As an author trying to offer entertainment to readers, I'm often baffled by the notion of trying to get fans. If I were to approach a random person (she's a black woman like me) and ask her to purchase my book, what would I say to her? What exactly is she looking for in a story? A heroine who battles aliens? A dark handsome hero in whose arms she can…

Today, All Art Friday's spotlights are on the human hair sculptures of Jayoung Yoon, Amy Eisenfeld Genser's paper and acrylic artworks, LACMA Collections site, the heart in art, and the iPad app "DrawQuest". The video feature is about Jeanne Silverthorn's 'Vanitas!" exhibition for the Phillips Collection.

The roundup highlights exhibitions of Darren Waterston's acquatints (San Francisco's Legion of Honor), Dan Miller and Judith Scott's sculptures and works on paper…

Today's Wednesday Wonder is artist Robert Henke's sound-and-laser installation "Fragile Territories". It's riveting to watch.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/wednesday-wonder-fragile-territories.html

I also have a new post at TweetSpeakPoetry, about a visit to D.C.'s National Sculpture Garden:…

While listening to my classical music Pandora station, I caught myself nodding along to at tune that was familiar … but I couldn't place it at first. It was Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It took me a few minutes to figure out because the classical cover was so far removed from the song's original grunge styling. Once I gave it my full attention and identified this lovely string piece as a Kurt Cobain song, my first reaction was to feel guilty for enjoying it. A Nirvana song, converted…

While listening to my classical music Pandora station, I caught myself nodding along to at tune that was familiar … but I couldn't place it at first. It was Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It took me a few minutes to figure out because the classical cover was so far removed from the song's original grunge styling. Once I gave it my full attention and identified this lovely string piece as a Kurt Cobain song, my first reaction was to feel guilty for enjoying it. A Nirvana song, converted…

Today's Saturday Short is about the creation of the Olympic Cauldron in the United Kingdom. It was awarded this year the visual arts prize of South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/saturday-short.html

Today's new edition of All Art Friday spotlights the "Women" series of woodcuts by printmaker and sculptor Margaret Adams Parker; the Dot Dash 3 online gallery; Alexandre Paiva's embroideries on photo paper; a "thread-wrapping" machine used to create furniture (video included), and installation artist Basia Irland's sculptures "Books of Ice" (video included).

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Ohio's Columbus Museum of Art (Czech puppet artistry), Detroit Institute of Arts (Shirin…

I've posted a new poem for today's photo prompt at Magpie Tales:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-clarity-of-white-noise-poem.html

Today's Saturday Short shows us how conservators at The Morgan Library & Museum's Thaw Conservation Center treated Charles Dickens's 1843 manuscript of "A Christmas Carol" before placing it on exhibition.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/06/saturday-short_1.html

Today's new edition of All Art Friday spotlights glass artist Dave Smith, a 1921 guide to drawing, Dutch artist Frank Halmans's "built of books" series, artist-to-watch Michele Wood, Art Wall Gallery, and the book trailer for Aimee Lee's "Hanji Unfurled: One Journey Into Korean Papermaking".

The roundup highlights "Living Shrines of Uyghur China", Lisa Ross's photographs at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City; cast bronze sculptures by Mark Calderon at Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle,…

How would you answer the simple question, Why make art? Richard Serra shares his response in a video featured in today's post.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/richard-serra-asks-why-make-art.html

Learning that Martha was dead came as a jolt from the blue–not just because the evening air was so perfectly laden with the scent of lilac, or because the news was so unexpected. More likely it’s that the cloak of optimism I wear in the company of struggling loved ones had become as comfortable and…

Today Monday Muse features an interesting interview with Sue Prideaux, author of "Strindberg: A Life", published by Yale University Press.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-muse-prideaux-on-strindberg.html

Today, Saturday Short presents a sand mandala of the deity Chakrasamvara, created by Lama Karma Tenzin at the Rubin Museum in New York City. It took Lama Karma more than two weeks to create the artwork and just two minutes to destroy it.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/saturday-short.html

Friday brings us a new edition of All Art Friday, which today puts the spotlights on painter Michelle Mackey, Shinichi Maruyama's water sculpture (see the video), a digital exhibition of the 1913 Armory Show, MoMA's new online journal "post: Notes on Modern & Contemporary Art Around the Globe", and figurative painter and sculptor Nancy Dwyer (video included).

The roundup highlights exhibitions of the photography by Bill Brandt (MoMA in New York City), collages and watercolors by…

Well, I went ahead and created a little website just for Spunk, a Fable, called, (what else?) Spunky. (Look at…

I've posted "A Girl Can Dream", a poem that first appeared as part of the Image-ine series at TweetSpeakPoetry. The poem is inspired by Nicola Slattery's painting "Red Shoes".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-girl-can-dream-poem.html

Posted new edition of All Art Friday.

Today's spotlights are on Global Museum, Virtual Museum of Canada, Birds of Vermont Museum, paper-cut artists, Marquis Biographies Online for Who's Who in American Art, and a video of multimedia artist Phil Hansen's portrait of van Gogh comprising words from more than 1,000 shocking or incredible stories.

The roundup highlights the Jay DeFeo exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), a show examining complementary aspects of…