Curious to read Gladwell’s new book. I love the idea of fakes and frauds and what they teach us about communication. Think I’ll get the audiobook version for the car. Dying to crack open Machines Like Me, Luis. This job keeps sucking me back in. Continue Reading
A photographic series titled, “It Doesn’t Taste As It Used To” by Polish American artist Aneta Bartos frames her and her father in various domestic and outdoor settings back in the home country. By juxtiposing him with herself in various states of undress in very modest settings using the oddlyContinue Reading
Just returned. A month on the East Coast. Quite a thing. Interesting to consider the Quebec identity issue coming out of this experience. Can’t help but feel geography plays a large part. In the Maritimes, it feeds into notions of community and belonging. The sea and ragged coastline demand aContinue Reading
Vermin supreme: When President Donald Trump tweeted this weekend that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess,” he was continuing a long pattern of using this kind of rhetoric to describe a majority-black city. This particular attack was in response to Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, whose district includes West Baltimore,Continue Reading
Art that is popular often points to the social desires of its time.Continue Reading
Baltimore is a town striken with inequality, between rich and poor, black and white. The slight of hand by senior politicians and big biz to abuse the public trust knows no limits in this their field of opportunity ripe for the picking. (The Port Covington tract is just 4% black.Continue Reading
“MANY YEARS AGO, when I was a college dropout with bad credit, having defaulted on my student loans, I worked briefly as a phone psychic.”
(Recall that—by Trump’s own public admission—as late as Election Day he did not believe he would win the presidency of the United States. Trump thought that—on November 9, 2016—he’d return to being a non-politician private citizen free to do big international business deals. So all of Trump’s historically pro-Russia foreignContinue Reading
(Dan Robbins did something quite remarkable and radical: he demonstrated that it is not necessary for any given artist to create something unique or deeply original in order to be an artist. Thus, Robbins may legitimately be compared to Marcel Duchamp, whose readymades demonstrated that, within the art world itself,Continue Reading