Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

The Deracination of Literature

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From Mary Gaitskill, at UnHerd, " We have fallen out of love with good writing ": ... More recently, in 2019, Joyce Carol Oates ca...
Friday, July 9, 2021

White House Defends Hunter Biden's Art Selling Scheme (VIDEO)

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Pfft. Right. Hunter Biden is the next Claude Monet or Pierre-Auguste Renoir --- you gotta be kidding me! I'm mean the crackhead's wo...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Prestige Boston Art Museums Will Not Return Objets d'Art Once-Owned by German Collector Curt Glaser

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These Nazi art cases are always fascinating to me.  The Nazis took control of Glaser's collection after persecuting the man for his Jewi...
Monday, January 4, 2021

College Virtual Choir Delivers Beautiful Ensemble Performance

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From the performing arts department at my college.  Wonderful.
Sunday, December 6, 2020

Supreme Court to Hear Nazi-Era Art Cases

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Background at the Times of Israel, " Heirs seek return of ‘cursed’ $200m golden treasure bought for Hitler: The Guelph collection, a tr...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

How Sam Mendes Made '1917'

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I'd go see this one, but it's in limited release until January. I love war films. At NYT: “We would laugh at him,” the direc...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women

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At Amazon, Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Pa...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Rebuilding Notre Dame (VIDEO)

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At the Los Angeles Times, " Notre Dame may take decades to fix. The first concerns are water and soot ": Two holes gape where N...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Elizabeth Rowe, Star Flutist at Boston Symphony, Files Suit Over Pay Equity

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I played trumpet and French horn in junior high school, in both the concert and marching bands. My dad, I'm sure, would have loved it ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Tamara de Lempicka Google Doodle

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I don't normally comment on Google Doodles, but this woman is striking, and I love Art Deco. Meet Tamara de Lempicka, the Polish art de...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Artistic Jack-o'-lanterns

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At the O.C. Register, " Incredibly artistic Halloween pumpkins by OCSA students on auction to benefit nonprofits ." Incredibly ar...
Friday, September 29, 2017

'Matilda' Ignites Violent Protests from Russia's Religious Right

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At LAT, " A movie about a czar's love affair ignites violent protest from Russia's religious right ": Polish actress Mic...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Los Angeles Once Teemed with Dozens of Adult Cinemas

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Now there's only two porn theaters in town. At the Los Angeles Times, " The last (porn) picture shows: Once dotted with dozens of...
Friday, May 19, 2017

'Untitled' Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Sells for 'Mind-Blowing' $110.5 Million at Auction

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Amazing. Apparently, the painting "remained in the same private collection since it was bought at auction in 1984 for $19,000." ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

'The Battle of Algiers' — It's Excellent

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I took my older son with me yesterday. He loves hanging out in L.A. Here're my earlier posts, " Going to See 'The Battle of A...
Friday, October 7, 2016

Going to See 'The Battle of Algiers' Today

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"The Battle of Algiers" opens today at the Nuart Theater in West L.A. I blogged the press release a few weeks ago, " At the...
Friday, September 16, 2016

At the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles: 'The Battle of Algiers' — 50TH ANNIVERSARY NEW 4K RESTORATION (VIDEO)

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The film's coming to the Nuart in West L.A. on October 7th. Sounds like something I'd like to attend. We'll see. In any case, ...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Special Offers in Fine Arts

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At Amazon, Shop Special Offers - 40% Off Fine Art . Plus, from Mark Bauerlein, ed., The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

'Emin advanced her career with media-friendly drunken antics, and by cozying up to power players, rather than making worthwhile art. She made a name for herself by behaving as a kind of pandering clown for the glitterati, a predictable freak show for our would-be ruling class, feeding into the establishment’s most precious clichés...'

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This is interesting, at the Remodern Review, " The Doublethink Strategy of the Cultural Elitists ": If you don’t understand the ...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Britain is Experiencing Same Decline as Rome in 100 BC

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At the Telegraph UK, " Dr Jim Penman believes Britons no longer have the genetic temperament that sparked the Industrial Revolution &qu...