“Florence Foster Jenkins” – a film review What you have to love about the very affluent, ebullient Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) is that, despite her ineptitude at singing art songs and opera, she’s good and generous. All the bad stuff coming earlier in her [more…]
An interview with Stan Mack “You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Levy’s Rye Bread,” was a very successful ad in New York City some years back. And the same holds true for Stan Mack’s remarkable accounting of, as he puts it, The Story [more…]
‘Blind Squirrel’ & ‘Plan B’ Cartoons Gallery Click on any “Plan B Cartoons” thumbnail to enlarge, then you may page through cartoons, or click on image to return to gallery. Blind Squirrel Plan B
“Such works [of abandoned art] … will enter into a strange netherworld. Removed from the marketplace, these objects will live on in warehouses, unseen and unappreciated, becoming what has been called ‘dead art’ or ‘zombie art.’” — “Zombie Art,” The New Yorker Item #34: Mona [more…]
Artists and musicians have the Constitutionally-protected free speech right to perform and sell their work in public spaces America: If you care about Free Speech, the Arts and Artists in our Society, and if you care about ending the culture of violence we find our [more…]
The French art director Alexis Persani and the French photographer combined their talents and vision to place classical artwork in in new light:
To create the project called Street Stone, they first photographed the sculp…
From the Polish artist Paul Kuczynski.
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To navigate life’s all-too-frequent stumbling blocks successfully, it’s necessary to learn how to accept the downs as well as the ups. But at the New Yorker magazine (still the embodiment of what gives the Big Apple its fine reputation), they really get their “ups” when [more…]
The London Metropolitan Police admitted there had been no complaints, but none the less they took a dim view of Derrick Santini’s modern rendering of Zeus ravishing Leda, the myth of the conception of Helen of Troy.
An officer took exception as…
The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth, has become the focal point of a controversy in which she has been accused of racism. There have been calls for her resignation. It all began when the Minister participated in an art…