Over the years my reconstructivist art theory has proven inspirational to a number of interesting artists, thinkers and academics. Here are a couple of the coolest ones I’ve come across recently: Above, painter Peter SmeethPeter[…]
Repost – In honor of the 40th anniversary of… Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (1979) as an example of Reconstructivist Art Michael Ende’s international bestseller found an audience among children and adults alike, due to[…]
In honor of his new movie Roma, please enjoy this repost about the film that first introduced me to my favorite director, Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) as an example of Reconstructivist Art[…]
Please enjoy this repost: Man of La Mancha (1965) by Wasserman, Leigh and Darion as an example of Reconstructivist Art The ground-breaking and seminal seventeenth-century Spanish novel Don Quixote attracted a number of prior attempts[…]
In honor of the 10 year anniversary of its release, please enjoy this repost of a post about Dr Horrible. Joss Whedons’ Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008) as an example of Reconstructivist Art To avoid[…]
Repost: Wyclef Jean’s Mona Lisa as an example of Reconstructivist Art Mona Lisa was a little noted deep-album cut from hip-hop impresario Wyclef Jean’s multiplatinum album The Carnival (1997). A radical reinvention of the remixed[…]
In honor of Kehinde Wiley’s new presidential portrait, please enjoy this repost of my article considering him as an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art, originally published not long after his Columbus Museum of Art show in[…]
Repost Reconstructivist Art: American Born Chinese is a critically acclaimed graphic novel by Asian American writer/illustrator Gene Yang, which centers around what at first seem like three very different narratives. The first is a superhero-themed[…]
Simon & Garfunkel may have a reputation as the whitest music ever, but there’s not many places you can go in American popular music without finding an African-American somewhere nearby. In the this case, the[…]
R. Stevens’ “Diesel Sweeties” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Diesel Sweeties is a subversive and deceptively simple web-based comic strip depicting the lives, passions and tangled love affairs of a motley group of humans,[…]
