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    May 23, 2019May 26, 2019

    The Ugly Truth: It was Beauty all Along

    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald [Here I present an argument that art must be beautiful. Note that beauty signifies being visually captivating, compelling, or interesting, and doesn’t mean it’s […]

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    May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

    Why I have nothing new to say about Koons’s latest record-breaking sale.

    If you don’t know already, Jeff Koons’s high-polished aluminum (or is it chrome?) “Rabbit” sold for over $90,000,000 at a Christie’s auction. One of the reasons I have nothing to say is that this sale says nothing about the art, and I’m not interested in money, nor qualified to talk about finance, economy, investment strategies, […]

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    May 13, 2019May 14, 2019

    Abominable Ideas About Art #5: The Purpose of Art is to Ask Questions

    The art world is filled with bad ideas that are repeated like scripture, and accepted as truisms. Most of them presume to make sweeping statements about all art, and establish a hierarchy with their chosen art at the pinnacle. I’ve dismantled a bunch of the worst of these ideas in lengthy articles, but here I’ll […]

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    May 10, 2019May 10, 2019

    New Art: SFAU # 31

    If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after basically being fed through a neural network (which can change age, gender, etc.), then edited and painted using various programs. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from alternate universes. This […]

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    April 27, 2019April 27, 2019

    Death’s Dream Kingdom 03: The Monster In The Mirror

    The third in the series, and I sat on this one for a long time. There were some technical difficulties towards the end, such as in making the monster’s appendages persuasively symmetrical (working anatomically and compositionally). If I share an earlier version, you’ll understand why. Below you can see I’d drawn in a couple appendages […]

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    April 6, 2019April 7, 2019

    Abominable Ideas About Art #4: If Michelangelo were alive today, he’d be a conceptual artist.

    The art world is filled with bad ideas that are repeated like scripture, and accepted as truisms. Most of them presume to make sweeping statements about all art, and establish a hierarchy with their chosen art at the pinnacle. I’ve dismantled a bunch of the worst of these ideas in lengthy articles, but here I’ll […]

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    March 31, 2019March 31, 2019

    Abominable Ideas About Art #3: The Public Decides What Art Means

    The art world is filled with bad ideas that are repeated like scripture, and accepted as truisms. Most of them presume to make sweeping statements about all art, and establish a hierarchy with their chosen art at the pinnacle. I’ve dismantled a bunch of the worst of these ideas in lengthy articles, but here I’ll […]

  • March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

    MoMA’s ‘Salon’ on the topic of “White Male”: Flogging a Dead Scapegoat

      A few days ago MoMA uploaded a video of their “salon” on the topic of “White Male”. It could have been called “White Male: The Enemy” and the content would not have needed to change.  I find this sort of thing in 2019 not to be the more enlightened, open-minded, generous, just, and progressive […]

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    March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

    Runaway Rant: A Problem with Morality and Art

    I just wanted to get out one thought here, folks, which is percolating in my mind over my morning coffee. In general, morality is defined by others, and art makes its own definitions, hence they work at cross purposes. How much are we, as individuals, self-defined, and how much defined by everything outside of ourselves? […]

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    March 25, 2019May 15, 2019

    Abominable Ideas About Art #2: All Art is Political

    The art world is filled with bad ideas that are repeated like scripture, and accepted as truisms. Most of them presume to make sweeping statements about all art, and establish a hierarchy with their chosen art at the pinnacle. I’ve dismantled a bunch of the worst of these ideas in lengthy articles, but here I’ll […]

May 19, 2019May 24, 2019

Runaway Rant: What isn’t art?

May 16, 2019May 19, 2019

Runaway Rant: A Personal Attack is Not an Argument

May 6, 2019May 7, 2019

Runaway Rant: Is Facebook/Instagram Going Too Far With Censorship?

March 24, 2019March 25, 2019

Abominable Ideas About Art #1: Making Money is Art

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

Runaway Rant: Believing Beliefs, Mass Shootings, & Art.

March 14, 2019March 14, 2019
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Before and After Process

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

Death’s Dream Kingdom 02: Lazarus’ Carapace

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019

Alex Jones is a complete and utter nutter: Aliens, Nazis, and Baby Organ Harvesting.

March 3, 2019March 4, 2019

New Rules for Chess Tournaments. It’s Woke Chess, I Guess.

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019

“Painting is No Longer a Window”: The Revolutionary Expunging of the Visual Imagination

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

Confession: I am a Renowned Conceptual Artist.

February 24, 2019February 25, 2019

Movie Review: The Price of Everything (Art of by and for the Rich)

February 17, 2019March 3, 2019

“It’s OK to Paint” is Hate Speech.

February 10, 2019February 10, 2019

Rant: Why Are My Views Anathema to the Art World?

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019

Death’s Dream Kingdom 01: Salamandrine

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

At Eternity’s Gate: An Abominable Portrait of Van Gogh

February 3, 2019February 4, 2019

Authoritative Art Video Self-Refutes by Unwittingly Featuring One of My Pranks

January 19, 2019

Runaway Rant: Can you Separate the Art from the Artist?

January 18, 2019

New Art: [Everyday Observations #2] Scissors & Ball

January 4, 2019
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New Video: First 30 Heads in My SFAU series Morphing

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019

New Art: SFAU # 30 (Green-Haired Lady)

Racist depiction of black male, Africa ride
December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

Runaway Rant: the Danger of Opinion

December 2, 2018December 4, 2018

Runaway Rant: That’s Not Reality

December 1, 2018January 18, 2019

New Art: [Everyday Observations #1] Canvas Bag with Orange Straps

November 20, 2018November 21, 2018

Art is not a conversation piece for mental masturbation!

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018

Parody Articles Published in Prestigious Academic Journals, And Why The Art World is in Denial

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018
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Alien Monster Messiah #2: Martian Soul Harvester

November 11, 2018November 12, 2018

Schoolmarmy Regurgitation of the Correct Political Opinion is Not Performance Art

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