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“I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.” Lynda Benglis Redefined Sculpture in the ’60s. Now, She’s at Her Most Prolific. The pioneering artist, who came to attention with her poured-latex floor works, is still pushing the limits of her medium. By Osman…
White guy gets lost, half a millennium of colonization, slavery, genocide and manifest destiny later, something to celebrate. Proclamation on Columbus Day, 2020 More than 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus’s intrepid voyage to the New World ushered in a new era of exploration and discovery. His travels led to European contact with the Americas and, a…
“The war, what was happening to America, the brutality of the world. What kind of man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into frustrated fury about everything – and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue?” Best known for his cartoonish paintings and drawings from the late 1960s onwards,…
TODAY’S WEATHER: Scattered thunderstorms in afternoon. High 92, Low 77. I’ll be honest, I have trouble paying full price for a daily paper that comes only two days a week. So, they try to entice me back with a little morning taste of what I’m missing. The Day Starter. It’s not working. On night of deadline,…
Happy poets who write found poetry go pawing through popular culture like sculptors on trash heaps. They hold and wave aloft usable artifacts and fragments: jingles and ad copy, menus and broadcasts — all objet trouvés, the literary equivalents of Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans and Duchamp’s bicycle. By entering a found text as a poem,…
“If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.” The Tulsa Health Department does not publicly identify where potential virus transmissions occurred, so it’s not clear how many people contracted COVID-19 at Trump’s rally. But among those who attended was former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, who…
It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine. We’ve already handled it pretty well. – DJT I wanted to always play it down, I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic. My fucking generals are a bunch of pussies….
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. – Stephen King Maybe you know this woman. An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She…
Being The Continued Adventures and Misadventures of Bob Hodge, Author, Mountaineer and Erstwhile Professional Road Racer. Frederic Edwin Church traveled to northern Maine soon after the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods.” In this canvas, Church brings the landscape that Thoreau called “exceedingly wild and desolate” subtly under control by…
“Before I make a statement, I need the facts. So I don’t want to rush into a statement. So making the statement when I made it was excellent.” In Context: Donald Trump’s ‘Very Fine People On Both Sides’ Remarks (Transcript) By Angie Drobnic Holan for Politifact. April 26th, 2019 On Aug. 15, 2017, President Donald Trump held…