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a failed jasper johns: where true genius lies

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: when you collect bad paintings like i do (and as do so many others), you begin to see some patterns. there are a few major categories, for instance. by far the most common bad painting is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged "Cancelled" paintings, art chantry, bad painting collecting, Clifford Still painting, Clyfford Still painting, George Washington, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jasper Johns, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Star Trek | Leave a comment

MEMES IN OUR GENES

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dave

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Alex Leavitt, Brecht, Christian Fuchs, Convergence Cultural Consortium, Digital Humanities, Georges Braque, Glenn Ligon, Goebbels, Hannah Arendt, Henry Jenkins, Ion Barladeanu, Jeff Koons, Jeremy Hunsinger, John Heartfield, Kate Edith Gough, Maxfield Parrish, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Prince, Richard Pryor, Star Trek, Tarantino Inglorious Basterds, The Downfall film, The Downfall parodies, Twilight movie, Victorian collage | Leave a comment

Starfleet Explores Left-Hand Planet of the Arts

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Dave

At an outer perimeter of Delta Quadrant is a planet inhabited uniquely by a left handed civilization with human resemblances. They are Artemoids, so named after the Greek God of the arts, Artemis. Artemis’s moon is named Apollo, after the … Continue reading →