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Ode to the Martini
The Friday martini posts continue this week with a photo from Ken Johnson’s photographic series “Ode to the Martini.” Concerning this one, “Friday After Work,” Ken rightly notes: It is important for...
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Small Arms Fire
“Why the slow, angsty movie-music at the end? I thought someone in the Politburo had died.” Mickey Kaus on the spectacle at Mile High. Nothing To Do with Religion? Now on exhibit in Italy is Martin...
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Yale Doubles Down
Pia Lindman has been rehired by Yale. Lindman gained notoriety earlier this year as the faculty advisor who authorized and presumably encouraged Aliza Shvarts to concoct a senior art project...
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Imagination versus Overload
I remembered it in a dream last night. It was an oblong board on the wall above my bed that pictured a midnight sky with big stars. Mounted on some sort of pressboard, it had some sort of...
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Bar Owner Lusts After Daughter; Blames Palin
Bruce Elliot hung a nude portrait of his daughter in his Chicago bar. To cover his actions, he painted the face of Sarah Palin on the nude and added some Alaskan props. Surveying the completed work,...
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Art and Dying
Art and dying. I’m getting a new angle on it, while keeping vigil for a dying relative in a facility called Hospice Atlanta. The facility is beautiful—like leafing through pages of Southern Living or...
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Just Art?
Is it “just art” when you hang someone in effigy? Leaving aside the question of whether it is art at all, it certainly is not just art. According to the news report: A Halloween decoration showing a...
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Testing the Right
From the Los Angeles Times comes a story about an exhibit of communist art set to open “in the middle of the country’s largest Vietnamese population.” How’s this for a subtitle? The show opening in...
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Cashing In Intellectual Assets
Brandeis University is looking to raise cash. Its endowment fund reportedly lost 20% of its value from the Madoff scandal. Looking for a disposable asset, it has focused on art. The Cornell Daily Sun...
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