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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, 2019March 25, 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 […]

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    March 24, 2019March 25, 2019

    Abominable Ideas About Art #1: Making Money is Art

    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 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 […]

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 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

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

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Recent Posts

  • Abominable Ideas About Art #4: If Michelangelo were alive today, he’d be a conceptual artist.
  • Abominable Ideas About Art #3: The Public Decides What Art Means
  • MoMA’s ‘Salon’ on the topic of “White Male”: Flogging a Dead Scapegoat
  • Runaway Rant: A Problem with Morality and Art
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