Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2026

Best Picture - Diversity Inclusion Requirements

That's a lot of rules to meet to participate in the race for an Oscar.

Kind of weird to require that from supposed "artists."

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Kennedy Center Board Dinner

Beautiful.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Statue of Black Woman in Times Square

Michelangelo's David?

Good grief.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Change at the Kennedy Center

Excellent.

Monday, December 9, 2024

Big Guy, Dr. Jill, Momala, and Dougie - Kennedy Center Honors

The bad feelings between these people are so extreme that they refuse to make any effort to behave politely.

They all hate each other so much that they won't bother to exchange even perfunctory pleasantries.

I don't think any Democrats' souls were healed during Biden's pretend presidency.

Monday, July 29, 2024

Gutfeld: Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

He's not just another pretty face.

Friday, June 7, 2024

Flags and Free Speech

When you paint a "mural" on a street with traffic, it's not going to remain pristene. The street isn't private property. It's a taxpayer-funded thoroughfare. Maybe it's not a good idea to allow "murals" to be painted on public streets.

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Robert De Niro - 'Cry-Baby'

Meanwhile, China is taking over the world.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

King Charles - First Official Portrait Since Coronation

Yikes!

This is disturbing. Just a bit too much red in my opinion. Just a bit.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

FBI Art Crime Team Protecting Ukrainian Art

Defund the FBI.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Art Museums Abolish Docent Programs

Too many white ladies.

Ridiculous.

Monday, July 31, 2023

Rebecca Chaillon's 'Art'

White babies on skewers?

What's the artist expressing with these images?

I don't know, but it is disturbing.

There's definately a double standard at play. If an artwork depicted white women skewering black babies there would be an uproar.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Pope Francis, Andres Serrano, and 'Piss Christ'

The infamous Andres Serrano, creator of Piss Christ, reemerges at the Vatican as Pope Francis sings the praises of 200 artists.

From Gateway Pundit:
Serrano is the creator of the controversial “Piss Christ,” in which he submerged a model of Jesus Christ on the crucifix in his own urine.

Pope Francis welcomed 200 artists to the Sistine Chapel to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican’s collection of contemporary art.

“Thank you for accepting my invitation; I am happy to be with you, because the Church has always had a relationship with artists that can be described as both natural and special,” the pontiff told the artists, including Serrano. “A natural friendship, because artists take seriously the richness of human existence, of our lives and the life of the world, including its contradictions and its tragic aspects. This richness risks disappearing from the view of the many specialized disciplines that respond to immediate needs, but find it difficult to view life as a polyhedron, a complex and multifaceted reality.”

...Pope Francis continued, “Artists remind us that the dimension in which we move, even unconsciously, is always that of the Spirit. Your art is like a sail swelling with the wind of the Spirit and propelling us forward. The Church’s friendship with the arts is thus something quite natural. Yet, at the same time, it is also a special friendship, especially if we think of the many periods of history that we have traveled together and which are part of the patrimony of everyone, whether believers or non-believers. Mindful of this, let us look forward to a new season of rich fruits in our own time, born of a climate of listening, freedom and respect. People need those fruits, those special fruits.”

“As visionaries, men and women of discernment, critical consciences, I consider you allies in so many things that are dear to me, like the defence of human life, social justice, concern for the poor, care for our common home, universal human fraternity,” the speech continued. The humanness of humanity is dear to me, the human dimension of humanity. Because that is also the great passion of God. One of the things that draws art closer to faith is the fact that both tend to be troubling. Neither art nor faith can leave things simply as they are: they change, transform, move and convert them. Art can never serve as an anesthetic; it brings peace, yet far from deadening consciences, it keeps them alert. Often, as artists, you attempt to plumb the depths of the human condition, its dark abysses. We are not all light, and you remind us of this. At the same time, there is a need to let the light of hope shine in that darkness, in the midst of our selfishness and indifference. Help us to glimpse the light, the beauty that saves.”
Andre Serrano's Piss Christ did not help me "to glimpse the light, the beauty that saves."

I guess Pope Francis must have a different view of beauty and light.

Artistic expression is grounded in freedom, but it is not free from responsibility.

Art, like all forms of expression, has consequences.

Monday, March 20, 2023

Making Lace from Stone

Breathtakingly beautiful.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Dead White Guy

Beauty.

Genius.

Friday, October 14, 2022

Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' Vandalized

These thugs are sociopaths.

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Snow Art

Amazing.