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Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald, a short book I wrote about the late great comedian, is available on Amazon.
Category Archives: Art
Hank Willis Thomas – “Black Power” (2008)
This photo was recently sold for $800 as part of an ‘Art For Obama’ auction, but now can be yours (should you partake in this July 22nd auction), with an opening bid of $800 and a current ‘estimate’ of $2,000 … Continue reading
The Tower of Babel
“The Tower of Babel” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1563).
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Gatsby Cover
I’ve read The Great Gatsby a couple of times, most recently about 4 years ago. I marvel not only at its structure and theme, but at the novel’s economy. Not a single word is wasted. Smithsonian Magazine has an article … Continue reading
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Art and the Ineffable
Can great art, tapping into the deepest recesses of our collective psyches, serve up objective correlatives of the ‘ineffable’? The so-called ineffability question in philosophical aesthetics – can art convey or communicate ‘knowledge’ of a different kind than scientific (or … Continue reading
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Art as a Sense of Place
Sailer has a piece on the futuristic architecture of John Lautner, whose work captured the “the shiny, optimistic, future-infatuated Southern California that peaked in the early 1960s.” As with Tiki culture, I absolutely love the imagined future represented by 1960s-era, … Continue reading
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“An Alchemist in His Study” by Egbert van Heemskerk I (1610-1680)
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