AUSCHWITZ, FEBRUARY 2009
Editor’s Note: 2015 is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of all the concentration camps established by Nazi Germany in World War II. Located in Poland, in its heyday, 10,000 Jews a day were gassed to death there, while others, all of whom arrived in boxcars made for cattle, were forced […]
WHAT IS THIS ART THING? by Ruben Morrissey Edited by Cynthia Kukla
Read this like you saying, “Homie is a baller.” Swaying would be good too. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/207/index.html So I says, “Man, look at all those chairs. 2014 was “The Year of Chairs!” I see this exhibit, orange chairs, lime green chairs sitting in front of really boring paintings not even made with paint (can you imagine?) What’s […]
The Architecture People Love
Has the practice of architecture declined in recent years? Are we seeing more “bad” and “ugly” than “good” and “beautiful” buildings? And who is to judge? The architectural press and mainstream media have recently shown renewed interest in the state of architectural practice and criticism. Some of our best-known pundits picked up on Frank Gehry’s […]
Mythic Meeting: Robert Rauschenberg and Will Ryman at New Orleans Museum of Art
Sometimes walking into and wandering through a museum, not really knowing what’s on view or really why you’re there other than it’s a museum, is one of the most pleasurable experiences that can happen to you – serendipity fashioned out of boredom, merging with a magic feeling, like getting lost and then finding out you […]
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD
Words and Images For A Better World: Aralee STRANGE (1943-2013), Literary Artist, and her Visual Artist Friends Aralee Strange, a poet and playwright, was born December 5, 1943, in Birmingham, Alabama. After living and working in Atlanta, GA, Cambridge, MA, and New York City, NY, she settled for more than twenty years in Cincinnati, OH. […]
Some Thoughts on Some Recent Films
A current trend in Hollywood films this season seems to be the biopic, based on “true” lives, but often manipulative of those stories toward particular social ends. Some are less directly about “real” people than creating possible representative lives and characters, but the intents seem similar: to characterize a segment or aspect of society and […]
Letter to Mayor Cranley and City Council
“When members of a society wish to secure that society’s rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.” -MAYA ANGELOU, Poet Dear Mayor Cranley, and City Council Members, I am […]
Four Poems By Huck Fairman
STONE WALL Old stone, coursed gray granite and mortar crumbling, veins of countless shades like wild rivers caught in mothering molten past now not a few inches from my face and stretching out over the brown buried land that runs in circle to the snow sky and back to where we stand. This old […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Lust of the Lush My cheeks rubricate especially with red wine, then turning purple if I also eat pecans, and my eye feels pressure, itching around the lids. I predict a mild nut allergy. As the alcohol opens my facial capillaries, so the nut elements squeeze through the normally closed cells, a reaction […]
FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY Winter crept in like Sandburg’s fog only to arch up its back again. February 6, 2015