Clint Eastwood's Great speech on Heavy Books and Greek Columns
This election, let's not be afraid, as Paul Ryan has suggested of the heavy books and Greek columns that represent the elitism of the Democratic opposition, because we need to think of spectacles like...
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Nato Thompson: I said to you, ‘Rick, what are you going to do? Because now there are all these social practice programs where a lot of white kids are graduating and they’re going to go into...
View ArticleeState4Column5: The Afghan-Iraq War Memorials, the start of a series
This is the first in a series to discuss the designs for the future national memorials commemorating our major wars since Vietnam. While there should be memorials for all of our combat operations since...
View ArticleBecause public restrooms aren't really the best place to feed babies
In some states—like Texas, where a pair of college art students created a series of graphics to support a bill protecting mothers' public breastfeeding rights—this isn't even a dramatization: Women...
View ArticleThe Work of Artists Is Not Play
When the public reads stories in the media about visual artists, it is all too often about art stars that are selling their works for six figure sums or an item detailing glamorous parties on the art...
View ArticleNutpick Saturday...NOT: Pam Geller sets up duck blinds & decoys to provoke...
Noted nutlog Pam Geller is trying to provoke a terrorist response in Texas, the state of Open Carry mania - the goods are below the fold after Norman Rockwell rolls over a couple of times... Pamela...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: The Pallid Bust of Snowden: Collaborative Art the...
Marxist theory holds that there are no heroic individuals in the art world. Even the most solitary practitioner depends on the people who manufacture their supplies, the understanding of the people for...
View ArticleHonest, the Fanta girl in my can of soda pulled me off balance into the...
You break it, you've bought it Unlike delusional folks who attack artworks for unimaginable reasons, evidently this budding art historian felt the image lacked punch or Chinoiserie, and decided to...
View ArticleWrite On! Making yourself write.
Hello, writers. We talked a little last week about the difficulty of making oneself sit down and write. It’s probably the hardest part of the job. (Or second hardest, after writing synopses.)The...
View ArticlePolitics & Art
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” Pablo Picasso. An infamous nude of Donald Trump has attracted bids of over £100,000 after it went on display at the Maddox Gallery...
View ArticleWill rainbow nooses in Tennessee serve as a teachable moment
Culture in Tennessee cannot be separated from its history. There is Nashville, the wondrous pleasure of Beale Street and its proximity to the Lorraine Hotel/National Civil Rights Museum, and the roles...
View ArticleAnother Art Mystery: The Melun Diptych
In the past, we’ve discovered Caravaggio’s “moving hand,” ascertained the composition at an atomic level of Vermeer's "pearl earring," and figured out why art experts fell for those creepy "zombie...
View ArticleJohn Berger (1926-2017)
So much the public intellectual, even as he truly indulged the common clay that is humankind. xListener, grinder of lenses, poet, painter, seer. My Guide. Philosopher. Friend. John Berger left us this...
View ArticleNat Hentoff has passed away ... Giant Steps (1925-2017)
My earliest memories of critical writing came from reading Nat Hentoff in Downbeat, He combined an appreciation for what my music professors called “ethnic music” with the liberation politics of the...
View ArticleCreative Destruction & Heritage Foundation will finally kill National...
Here's the giant portrait Donald Trump commissioned of himself with charity money (only $10,000) … but not Grandiose! SAD! A spoils system also accommodates those GOP shibboleths that represent LBJ’s...
View Articleif only 42% of Millennials can identify this painting, do they get its...
So even if erstwhile shadow ambassador / SoS, Jared “$2.5M Harvard degree” Kushner, financially detached himself from the Observer, the neoliberal flanking for POTUS45* is intact. Nepotism ethics be...
View ArticleArt vs Trump
Some recent artwork on Trump and the state-of-the-union. Liberty’s Flameout. www.newyorker.com/... Molotov cocktail thrower. www.economist.com/...www.spiegel.de/... Der Spiegel A Resister’s Guide —...
View Article#RESIST on the beach - Pacifica, CA
A professional commitment prevented me from joining in the historic Women’s March on 1/21 and other marching actions have not been possible either. So, today I got my chance to participate in a large...
View ArticleInsane Clown Logic by Trump's OMB director ... you can't eat coal or burn...
Mick Mulvaney, running for dumbest guy in the government, because it’s never a tradeoff between guns and butter. The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are among...
View ArticleWall Street 'Charging Bull' sculptor accuses NYC of violating his rights
..this just out from AP;NEW YORK (AP)— The sculptor of Wall Street's "Charging Bull" statue is accusing New York City of violating his legal rights by allowing the "Fearless Girl" statue to be...
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