art
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What’s on my white board?
Nothing much. Inspirations and notes. I like to keep it clean, between. Sister Corita Kent’s rules and Bertolt Brecht, Berlin 1931. Black Scranton Steamtown Magnet. Giving blood is the least… Read more.
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the inside of my skin hurts
–The Grace of Mary Traverse, Timberlake WertenbakerThere are so many marvelous lines and stunning passages in this script, I hesitate to pull out one bit to represent. Put this on… Read more.
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Reverend Billy on the search for an (American) Pussy Riot
Just as fast as possible we have to find the Pussy Riot of our own culture. This is not celebrity or international personality consumerism – the Pussy Riot women carry… Read more.
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the artist as Servant
Is this where we are now? Intriguing essay on the general public’s mass perception of the artist. We’ve done away with the ridiculous Outsider Saint. But we’ve replaced him with… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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? –… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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‘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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
