Tag Archive 'Art'

What passes for art in San Francisco

Last Sunday, a private San Francisco museum unveiled a new painting, billed as the world’s largest portrait mural.  The mural contains the following edifying images, all homages to the wacky City I once called home:
The colorful mural by acclaimed artist Guy Colwell features Speaker Nancy Pelosi lancing a Republican elephant; a Terminator-dressed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

Talk about a Freudian moment in Obama’s life

Glancing at New York Times this morning told me that Obama used his presidential prerogative to borrow a whole bunch of paintings to furnish his new home.  I didn’t look at the article or the paintings, though.  Turns out I should have.
Hat tip:  Sadie

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Europeans and self-loathing Jews once again try to grab a little antisemitic limelight

I’ll comment just briefly on this story about a Belgian production of Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila,” which casts modern Jews as the Philistines, Palestinians as the Hebrews and Samson as a suicide bomber.  My comment:  this is the typical “artistic” crap that emantes from the Left (whether non-Jewish or self-loathing Jewish) in an effort to [...]