Boston paid $10 million for a statue to honor MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King. It was just unveiled on Boston Commons. It appears a tad provocative. So did Boston get its money’s worth? BREA...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2023/01/14/bostons-attempt-to-honor-mlk-jr-has-gone-seriously-awry/
The eugenics debate from a century ago bears striking similarities to the climate change debate today, while Leftists try to bring racism to old statuary. I’ve actually been doing paid legal wo...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2018/10/26/quick-points-eugenics-climate-change-art-restoration/
Modern art is not meant to delight or enlighten. Its sole goal is to tear down America and enforce social justice concepts, all while making “artists” rich. I’ve always had a thing about mo...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2017/04/02/video-modern-art-propaganda/
My graphic artistic skill doesn’t extend much beyond stick figures and daisies, and my rather limited visual sense means that my home was designed more with an eye to utility than aesthetics. �...
My post title is somewhat misleading, because I actually don’t have an opinion about the artist Banksy. You can’t revisit what never existed. Up until about ten minutes ago, I didn’t ca...
Blouin ArtInfo is out with a slide show purporting to identify the 25 most iconic pieces of art in the past five years. One of them is Shepard Fairey’s famous, and much pwned image of Obama�...
I blame two things for the current state of modern art: the camera and the denigration of faith. When art was both the sole way to record this life and the most reverent way to pay homage to fait...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/11/06/art-for-moneys-sake/
Back in December, I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“LACMA”) to see an exhibit entitled “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915.” Historic European and Am...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/04/19/social-mobilism-or-what-is-art/
One of my all time favorite books is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. In it, Fussell looks at the World War I through the eyes of the hyper-literate soldier poets and writers who...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/03/thinking-like-a-soldier/
There’s what I consider an intentionally funny story today about a radio station afraid of reading Howl on the air because it’s afraid it might run afoul of FCC rules governing broadcasting: ...
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/10/03/it-was-shocking-then-now-its-just-bad/