Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Boston paid $10 million for a statue to honor MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King. It was just unveiled on Boston Commons. It appears a tad provocative. So did Boston get its money’s worth? BREAKING: The bronze sculpture called “The Embrace” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King
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The eugenics debate from a century ago bears striking similarities to the climate change debate today, while Leftists try to bring racism to old statuary. I’ve actually been doing paid legal work all day long, with a short deadline, which makes blogging difficult if not impossible. Nevertheless, I wanted to
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Modern art is not meant to delight or enlighten. Its sole goal is to tear down America and enforce social justice concepts, all while making “artists” rich. I’ve always had a thing about modern art: I hate it. From the 1960s forward, the American art world has abandoned faith and
Continue readingMy graphic artistic skill doesn’t extend much beyond stick figures and daisies, and my rather limited visual sense means that my home was designed more with an eye to utility than aesthetics. Despite my personal limitations, I’m actually very fond of, and quite knowledgeable about, art. More specifically, I’m fond
Continue readingMy post title is somewhat misleading, because I actually don’t have an opinion about the artist Banksy. You can’t revisit what never existed. Up until about ten minutes ago, I didn’t care about him one way or the other, neither to like nor to dislike; nor to respect nor to
Continue readingBlouin ArtInfo is out with a slide show purporting to identify the 25 most iconic pieces of art in the past five years. One of them is Shepard Fairey’s famous, and much pwned image of Obama’s face (illegally stolen from an AP photo), over the word HOPE. The rest you
Continue readingI blame two things for the current state of modern art: the camera and the denigration of faith. When art was both the sole way to record this life and the most reverent way to pay homage to faith and the after life, artists brought their best efforts to play,
Continue readingBack in December, I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“LACMA”) to see an exhibit entitled “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915.” Historic European and American fashion has always been something of a hobby of mine, so I was excited when I first heard about the
Continue readingOne of my all time favorite books is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. In it, Fussell looks at the World War I through the eyes of the hyper-literate soldier poets and writers whose names we still recognize today: Rupert Brooks, who died before his fellow literary artists
Continue readingThere’s what I consider an intentionally funny story today about a radio station afraid of reading Howl on the air because it’s afraid it might run afoul of FCC rules governing broadcasting: Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg’s Beat-era poem “Howl” was
Continue readingA few weeks ago, I did a “what is art” post. Aaron Johnson, an artist who uses a cartoon panel for social commentary at What The Duck, must have caught that post, because he was kind enough to send me a link to today’s cartoon. I have to say, “by
Continue readingFrankly, I don’t care if this is art. I think it’s wonderful. As someone who never got past drawing a square or two on my Etch-a-Sketch, I was awestruck by what Jeff Gagliardi has done with the same medium.
Continue readingIn the old days — pre-camera — I think that it was pretty easy to answer when asked “What is art?”. Art served four major purposes: to elevate God, to aggrandize the rich and powerful, to decorate spaces, and to record images in a pre-photographic era. Some stuff was good,
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