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    March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

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

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity. … Excerpt […]

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    March 14, 2019March 14, 2019

    Before and After Process

    One of  the oldest techniques I use to invent imagery is to just make a bunch of marks and see what I see. I sometimes make a bunch of thumbnail sketches, and then choose whichever one inspires me at the moment. I made about a dozen thumbs before making my most recent piece (above right […]

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    March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

    Death’s Dream Kingdom 02: Lazarus’ Carapace

    This kind of piece stands on its own, needs no placard, no description, no interpretation, no translation, no perusing a CV, no background or context, and no assaying the significance of the biology of the artist. The only reason to read any further is if you are curious to know more. Sometimes it seems like […]

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    February 27, 2019February 27, 2019

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

    Painting is no longer a window on an imaginary world. or Painting is no longer allowed to be a window on an imaginary world. There are some ideas that are so ingrained, repeated so often, and are impressed on us so early, that we accept them before we even have the chance or ability to […]

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    February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

    Confession: I am a Renowned Conceptual Artist.

    This work by me appears in the video: The Case for Copying, by The Art Assignment / PBS Digital Studios, at @7:00. The purpose of the video is to defend the sometimes maligned contemporary art practice of appropriation, and when giving historical context it returns to Duchamp’s “Fountain”, and then quickly segues to my appropriation […]

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    February 24, 2019February 25, 2019

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

    When I say things that I like to think are to some degree hyperbolic, such as that the art world is a sea of toxic, relativistic, bullshit, this is the art world I’m talking about, and I fear my colorful exaggeration is a woefully inadequate understatement. This film is about the blue chip art world, […]

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    February 17, 2019March 3, 2019

    “It’s OK to Paint” is Hate Speech.

    Just going to share this without comment, which doesn’t mean I’m endorsing it or taking any side for or against. I think I’m afraid to formulate an opinion. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve slipped into some parallel dimensions where, well, everything seems backwards or like a parody. I am perhaps softening up to the idea […]

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    February 10, 2019February 10, 2019

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

    “I must confess that the other mods and I find ourselves strongly disagreeing with you in almost all cases…” ~ Head Moderator of the Art-History subreddit. I received the above message some months ago after the Art History subreddit censored an article of mine I shared which was critical of Banksy’s stunt in which one […]

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    February 8, 2019February 8, 2019

    Death’s Dream Kingdom 01: Salamandrine

    It’s just a wee bit odd to propose this as the first in a new series, as this is a core example of the type of art I do going back decades, including the technique (though I used to do this in charcoal). Let me just dredge up one of those real quick. The reason […]

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    February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

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

    At Eternity’s Gate is to the painter, Vincent Van Gogh, what the paintings in the movie are to his own: an atrocity. I’ve been excited to see this movie for a long time, mostly because it stars Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh. The only actor that might have been more fun to cast in the […]

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 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

November 10, 2018November 11, 2018

What Is the Secret to Making It as an Artist? Bad News, Folks….

November 10, 2018November 11, 2018

Julian Schnabel’s Clueless Self-Indictment

November 2, 2018
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New Art, New Series: Alien Monster Messiah #1

October 24, 2018October 24, 2018

New Art: SFAU # 29 [Complete]

October 19, 2018October 24, 2018

New Art: SFAU # 29 [Right Side]

October 6, 2018October 8, 2018

Banksy Laughing His Way to the Bank, See

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018

Runaway Rant: A New Paradigm of Art Connoisseurship

October 3, 2018October 4, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 28

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

The tantalizingly Mysterious Painted Figures of Amy Regutti

September 20, 2018September 20, 2018
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New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 27

September 11, 2018September 20, 2018
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New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 26

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

New Art (#49) ~ Alienscream

August 30, 2018August 31, 2018

Runaway Rant: Why is the Art World So Toxic?

August 27, 2018September 6, 2018

“The Death of the Author” Debunked.

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