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  • oh, artist statements – can’t digest them, can’t swallow them whole

    I spend a significant amount of time at my day job procuring artists statements and trying to make sense of them for laypeople who didn’t go to art school and are perhaps intimidated by…

  • yes, we should

    Shouldn’t we be perturbed that Hollywood is so ready to show human bodies being penetrated by a knife or an axe, but not by anything more pleasurable? via Let’s do it: How sex in…

  • Response: Should You Really Make Your Passion Your Job?

    Art is not a commodity to be capitalized, as DWYL might suggest, but a life that has to be lived. via Should You Really Make Your Passion Your Job? – Pacific Standard: The Science…

  • cultural censorship is anti-educational

    Students are being deprived of the opportunity to discuss the world as it is in all its glory and tragedy. They grow up not knowing how to talk about controversial topics, how to listen…

  • ‘How Theaters Can Combat the Stay-at-Home Mindset’

    Good article by Terry Teachout, of the WSJ. Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isnt a mass medium: Live…

  • immortal ego?

    Maybe I should have more respect for “Salinger’s wishes” but this just seems ridiculous to me. The dude needed to get over himself, he didn’t and then the clock stopped. His work matters, means…

  • this is what it feels like to be an artist

    When you look at a flower or at a face, a certain energy is being thrown ? your look is energy. And you are not aware that when you look, you are investing some energy,…

  • beyond ego

    To be an active artist, to showcase adventurous artists, and to celebrate the power of critical mass through cross-cultural, genre, and generational exchange has forged a path for me to understand what it means…

  • it’s all about the argument?

    What a play is and isn’t according to Tony Kushner (who appears to have abandoned theater for screenwriting, at least for the meantime …) in playwriting, the argument, the dialectic, is the key. The…