http://reverent.org/ reverent updates Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:07:00 PST en-us http://reverent.org/bad_painting_contest.html http://reverent.org/bad_painting_contest.html Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:07:00 PST The vote for the worst painting 2008 at the International Pavel Jerdanowitch Painting Contest has started. http://reverent.org/let_us_be_fair_to_malevich.html http://reverent.org/let_us_be_fair_to_malevich.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:40:00 PST Sometimes I hear the objection that my test "True art, or fake?" has a flaw. You see, to evaluate the quality one needs to see not a small image on the monitor, but a big painting in a museum. http://reverent.org/donald_judd_or_cheap_furniture.html http://reverent.org/donald_judd_or_cheap_furniture.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 PST Some of the photos displayed below show exquisite furniture, created by the famous minimalist sculptor Donald Judd. These masterpieces of design are meant for furnishing apartments that also contain famous abstract paintings. The rest of the photos show ordinary cheap furniture. Can you tell which is which? http://reverent.org/poe-tical_or_not.html http://reverent.org/poe-tical_or_not.html Thu, 5 Apr 2007 00:00:00 PST In 1877 an unrecognized poet James Whitcomb Riley received another letter of rejection from an editor. He decided to avenge. Riley took one of his poems and passed it as if it was a newly discovered work of Edgar Allan Poe. This poem was, of course, published and soon recognized as a masterpiece. The editors could not tell the poet, whom they had rejected, from Poe. And what about you?