BLOOMBERG: The Stuckists Strike Again
The Stuckists continue to provide perspective on Britain’s woeful Turner Prize competition.
BLOOMBERG: The Stuckists Strike Again
The Stuckists continue to provide perspective on Britain’s woeful Turner Prize competition.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, born January 3, 1892.
In honor of the day, a poem relevant now more than ever.
Michele Bledsoe had the featured image in a recent exhibition review.
Patricia Janes finds context in the on-going zombie fad.
Samples from what sounds like an interesting book, Donald Kuspit’s The End of Art
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS: In Ten Years We’ll All Agree That Damien Hirst Is A Joke
SIMON DOONAN: A Slate article that gets it right for once.
Saving our culture demands telling our stories.
And visual art is one of the most effective means of story telling there is-one picture equals a thousand words, etc.
Remodernism is art for those who have something meaningful to say.
The mighty Instapundit shows how to address the culture war.
Art can be enlisted as a powerful ally, used to help define the nature of the opposition. The elite has been doing this for 50 years, with the terrible results increasingly evident.
I had not paid much attention to The Hunger Games, which seemed like Battle Royale meets Twilight. But it looks like I will have to consider adding it to my roster of pro-Western Civilization pop culture mythologies:
Lord of the Rings. Firefly. Harry Potter. These stories, fed into the public conscious as the archetypal victory of good versus evil, need to be tapped.
Art will be used as a weapon to defeat the authoritarians.