THE ARC TOWARD JUSTICE
Green BookOn the Basis of Sex
“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”Two recent movies may be considered practical demonstrations of Dr. King’s famous quote.
Miles David Moore
SUBJECT, OBJECT, ARTIST, OR MUSE Among Women Explores Female Portraiture
The exhibition sparks questions of how far have women come in two hundred years.
Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
KAMOL TASSANANCHALEE Thai National Artist
East and West An artist of two worlds
Janine Yasovantคลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย
WHAT IS CONCEPTUAL ART?
Conceptual artists like Bruce Nauman and Trevor Paglen make it their goal to goad their audiences into thinking about what they are experiencing.
Karren LaLonde Alenier
RED MOTHER
Using Brecht’s “Mother Courage” as a jumping off place, Muriel Miguel of the Spider Woman Theater Ensemble embraced the war torn, twisted reality of a native woman worming her way from one war to the next.
Ned Bobkoff
GODDESS IN EXILE continued
The action takes place in the vivid milieu of the New York City art scene in the 1970's, capturing the excitement of the elite intelligentsia with character vignettes from the highest echelons of American artists and art world doyennes.
Griselda Steiner
OLD FART VILLAGE
Mr. Pivnick’sTrash Tale
Elliot Feldman
POSTCARDS FROM SAN FRANCISCO’S CITY HALL
The Photography ofJon Rendell
ADRIFT IN A SEA OF QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
AFFIRMATION OF A SUBMARINE EMPIRE
The Art of David Wiley
DEAD AIR
Our broadcast is only static now--
Kathi Wolfe
A TRANSITION IN TRANSIT (A MEMORY)My father had a passion for the road that was a mark of the intellectually adventurous in those days, and he periodically devised some terribly long drive.Lissa Tyler Renaud
HIGH COUPOur steel wall is designed to delete protest from those who detest concrete David Alpaugh
THE MYSTERY OF TASTETo a fairly great degree, our tastes define who we are and how we are viewed by others. As the French gastronome, Brillat-Savarin, famously said, “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you what you are.”
David Wiley
UNDRESS ME Michael BettencourtIn a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undressher by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.
THE GREED GENE Michael BettencourtA young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes"that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.
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BY WHATEVER LIGHTIt is one thing to say, in a philosophical way, that your mortality is always threatened. It is quite another to know that your mortality is threatened right now. Michael Bettencourt
ANONYMOUS DAYSThe one gut-driving, mind massaging, thought enhancing, evolutionary perpetrating influence has been the writings of Shakespeare. The words are in every head, every language, every mathematical thought. And the ringing question is... Arthur Meiselman
WRONG RED Repeatedly reminding myself to breathe, even though it's a long-standing item on my to-do list. It's just been extremely hard to focus on prioritizing. Claudine Jones
WHATEVER IT IS, I’M AGAINST ITEven in the small, little world of entertainment – immigration has made American culture. What we think of as broad, popular entertainment has its deep roots in an immigrant community. Nathan Thomas
ELEGIACSWas almost my life since I’d seen him last: How old are you Paddy? I said.I’m ninety-two or ninety-four — my death must soon be upon me. Like that he squared with truth and laughed. Patrick Walsh
WAYLON: TALES OF MY OUTLAW DAD The great Waylon Jennings who hailed from the West Texas town of Littlefield. Jennings is the subject of a book by his son Terry called: Waylon: Tales Of My Outlaw Dad. Les Marcott
February 2019
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