The New York Times does its best to address the big perplexing cultural issues

    By artappraiser on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 4:26pm |

    When gay Harlem met queer Britain

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/30/2019 - 1:04am |

    Geisha Kim Creative

    By artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 2:46pm |

    Regrets: how Dagblog used to be

    By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 1:47am |

    An intellectual sewing circle? Diversity of opinion with interesting respectful perspective? Something to re-aspire to?

     

    http://dagblog.com/personal/questions-regrets-edition-part-ii-820

    GoT Milk? Emilia Clarke means business

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 4:28am |

    Not just a medieval character anymore, ready to do business - and take us with her on that journey.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZuzudfcsek

    Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate

    By artappraiser on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 6:47pm |

    @ Poets & Writers, June 19

    Today the Library of Congress announced that Joy Harjo will be the next U.S. poet laureate. Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American poet to serve as laureate. She will begin her term on September 19, succeeding poet Tracy K. Smith.

    Cammock: why women aren't artists?

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 2:01am |

    An alternative path to creativity - with much less room for acknowledgment sans self-primotion.

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/18/helen-cammock-turne...

    Summer of Love: Charles Colson revisited

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 6:57am |

    by Barrett Brown no less.

    Feel our loss of innocence - "I'd run over my Grandma for Christ" was once a thing - now it's "Christ should run over Grandma for Trump". I guess in the end it's not much difference, but it feels like a lifetime...

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdp44j/reading-born-again-in-jail-by-...

    Gang Bang: Love to Love Ya

    By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 4:02pm |

    *Courtney* Love, of course, but everyone gets their licks - my facorite was Ladies of the Canyon, or was it the Fisher Queen? Man feel those names drop...

    https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/20-questions-for-courtney-love...

    The Doctor is Out: If u gwan to New Awleans

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/09/2019 - 11:33am |

    He was in the right place, but it must've been the wrong time... R.I.P. Dr. John.

     

    Man Out of Time: Unreasonable Men reviews

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/28/2019 - 1:27pm |

    A good point to remind of some previous reviews plus a fun interview. Let me know if there are any more and I'll tack them onto this post.

    http://dagblog.com/unreasonable-men-and-art-political-long-game-18728

    http://dagblog.com/social-justice/unrisible-irrascible-men-22312

    Back to the Future

    By artappraiser on Mon, 05/20/2019 - 9:55pm |

    Artist Betye Saar been ignored a long time, now getting her due

    By artappraiser on Mon, 05/20/2019 - 9:09pm |

    She's now 92, started working in assemblage in the late 60's, influenced by Joseph Cornell's assemblage work and Watts Tower...

    An exhibition of Betye Saar’s washboard assemblages – an Apollo art diary pick – closes in New York next Monday https://t.co/iUFaULVXsL

    Orwell: Dishonesty & Cowardice Will Be Paid For

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 3:39am |

    Worth re-reading in these times, however long karma takes to come due. (Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being makes a similar point in longer form)

    http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease194...

     

    Scorcese and DeNiro talk at Tribeca Film Festival

    By artappraiser on Sun, 04/28/2019 - 6:47pm |

    An elegy for Notre-Dame, in words and pictures

    By artappraiser on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 6:04pm |

    @ Apollo Magazine, April 16. One example: 

    The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons (c. 1452–60),
    Jean Fouquet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Nick Cave: Back to Transgression

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 6:30pm |

    The eternal heretic speaks - in religious voice.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/15/nick-cave-red-hand-files-r...

    Punishment... Reward. Bring me my hairshirt and skewers.

    Pages

    Latest Comments

    more