Artists & thieves: united by the threat of the gallows & the lure of cash. Former Senior Editor/Art Director at Blue Monday Review. Writer/Illustrator/Filmmaker
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City — my favorite museum in the world, free, expansive, loving, full of a cool caritas that welcomes silence and frequent viewing and a civic sense of mutual ownership of the art—will put on an…
So you sit down and browse through endless rows of Netflix releases, pummel the mouse at Amazon’s Prime offerings, and sneak on through the tinny riches of Hulu and dammit a half hour of choice viewing time gets eaten up while the kids sleep…
Or is it just an artifact whose nostalgia quotient outweighs its artistic and filmic value? This question arose when the Remake Factory Hostage Situation podcast…
Twenty-plus years of reading leads to a peculiar sense of awareness. Patterns begin to emerge that when in the midst of them seem to be simple shapes — at the present moment, this is a circle; now, a square; now, another square…
I’ve done a bad thing. I’ve stupidly approached art with an all-inclusive mind, and this has, to quote Adorno, done nobody any good no way no how. Not a promising start for a person who…