http://www.metafilter.com/tags/michaelkahn Posts tagged with 'michaelkahn' at MetaFilter. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:57:41 -0800 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:57:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/68816/I%2Dhave%2Dalways%2Dknown%2Dthat%2Dat%2Dlast%2DI%2Dwould%2Dtake%2Dthis%2Droad <em>Any fool can hire an architect to draw up a plan for a house, but it takes a truly inspired fool — which is to say, an artist — to start building and see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/garden/31elephante.html?ex=1359522000&en=f2cd3185c3d596f3&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">where the earth and driftwood and shards of broken pottery take him</a></em>. [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/30/garden/0131-ELIPHANTE_index.html">Slideshow</a>.] <em><a href="http://eliphante.org/eliphante/history.html">In 1979</a> Michael [Kahn] &amp; Leda [Livant] moved themselves and their paintings from Provincetown MA to rural land in Cornville Arizona. There they began the first mixed media structure which they later called <a href="http://eliphante.org/">Eliphante</a>. They continued <a href="http://eliphante.org/eliphante/hipo1.html">building</a> <a href="http://eliphante.org/eliphante/pond.html">and</a> <a href="http://eliphante.org/eliphante/pipegal.html">sculpting</a> on the 3 acre environment.</em> <a href="http://www.zenzibar.com/Articles/Eliphante/">Another tour</a>. A <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/thompsonphotography1/sets/72157603233436855/">flickr photo set</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68816 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:57:41 -0800 arizona art artists eliphante hippodome installation kahn ledalivant livant michaelkahn pipedreams dersins