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  • What is art?

    Art can be best summed up like this. Here's a good quote- ''I can't tell you when art becomes pornography, but I know it when I see it''.
    Posted to Art by jt3219 on July 19, 2008

  • Disappointed with the article and its premise

    The article reveals a distinct bias toward a subset of art - the 'weird for the sake of being weird' cliche, art that is about provocation rather than communication. I visited the Most and Least Wanted Paintings site and found its results interesting. Very little of the most wanted paintings could accurately be described as: provoke: to anger, ...
    Posted to Art by Darr Sandberg on July 19, 2008

  • Reading Online

    All the bells and whistles along with the candy spots do not cause one to read. There one may pause but for a second in the blah, and then move on for content. News, views, and adds do not sell themselves. What they need is the story. People need people as much as the dawn needs day and in the night the words that touch the world touch all. ...
    Posted to The Browser by Stephen Craig Rowe on June 23, 2008

  • Robert Rauschenberg

    Before shutting off the episode in disgust, I was dismayed (not to say astounded) by the ignorance each of the gabbers displayed in the discussion of Robert Rauschenberg on the May 21 Culture Gabfest. The moronic discussion of Erased de Kooning was truly worthy of a class of 8th-graders in Des Moines. Pulling tired old chestnuts like Tom Wolfe's ...
    Posted to Culture Gabfest by clyonny on May 29, 2008

  • Re: Ebay is squeezing it's "600,000"

    As an artist who tries to sell my work on eBay, I find that eBay continues to squeeze the folks who actually made them what they are today. Their strategy seems to want to eliminate the little guy and become more like a large retail store front. They definitely do not seem to have a high regard for their sellers. I really doubt the numbers that ...
    Posted to Moneybox by SpiritRiverStudio on May 25, 2008

  • Its about time someone was honest about Rauschenberg

    As a former art student and failed painter, my reaction to Rauschenberg is similar to that of the child in the fable, The Emperor's New Clothes. As a student, I grappled with trying to understand his work, and to a certain exent I believe I did. He made fairly conventional artistic decisions using unconventional and mostly ugly materials. In ...
    Posted to Press Box by tmcke on May 19, 2008

  • Of Art and Innocence! and Miley Cyrus

    It's art. It's not even original. I'm a heterosexual grandfather, stilI interested in sex, but I can't find anything even mildly erotic about ANY of the photos of that young lady, whom my own grand-daughter so idealizes. The one with the other girl, (naughty) would earn a scolding, and the one with the boyfriend (daring) a talking to, that's all. ...
    Posted to Culturebox by brerlou on May 3, 2008

  • Atocha

    The second slide, ''Atocha,'' is especially prescient, because if I'm not mistaken, the plaza Lopez painted in the early '60s is the same space that is now occupied (as of the early '90s) by the Reina Sofia museum, Madrid's premier modern/contemporary art museum.
    Posted to Art by JuneThomas on April 30, 2008

  • artlovesmoney

    I think Larry Salander www.mensvogue.com/arts/articles/2008/05/artscandal points to reasons why we all might want to be a little skeptical about what kind of bull market we're dealing with.
    Posted to Moneybox by artlovesmoney on April 28, 2008

  • Should Pinsky be fired as Slate's poetry editor?

    The overwhelming consensus on the Fray is that Pinsky was way off the mark in his condescending, cleverer-than-thou article purporting to defend contemporary poetry. Most everyone seems to agree that he failed to make a convincing case (or to make any case at all) regarding contemporary poetry and its value, or lack thereof. Moreover, by the ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Gonzalo Lira on April 18, 2008
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