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  • July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

    Fun and Instructive Reality Art TV Series on YouTube

    Several seasons of Portrait Painter of the Year and Landscape Painter of the Year have become available on YouTube in the last month or so. They both go under the umbrella of Artist of the Year, and the series is put out by SkyArt in the UK. I never heard of it until a few […]

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    June 30, 2019July 1, 2019

    Radical New Boring Shit: New Series

    After a century of anti-art bullying visual art, visual art bites back! There are 25 images in this mini-series so far. Above is the first, which I made four years ago, though I didn’t intend at the time to make even one more. Originally I attributed the faux painting to an imaginary artist, Günter Groos, […]

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    June 20, 2019June 20, 2019

    If You Are Pro-Art, Pro-Artist, and Pro-Painting, You Are A Pariah

    A hostile comment to me, on this blog, the other day, crystallized something. Rather, it was this specific idea in the diatribe against me, and defending a certain anti-artist (according to his interpretation) that stood out in particular: He is deflating the significance of the artist Deflating the significance of the artist is a good […]

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    June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

    Arthur Danto’s “The End of Art”: Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

    Philosopher, and art-critic, Arthur Danto’s “The End of Art” is considered one of the most important and influential essays on art in the 20th century. The influence is undeniable, the importance determined by how important people take it to be, and the underlying arguments in relation to reality bonkers. Art ended before I was born, […]

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    June 14, 2019June 15, 2019

    Killing the Imagination in the Name of Art

    Killing in the name of… I’m going to write this in under an hour, because, I believe, if you can’t make an argument in that time, you don’t already know what the hell you are talking about. And if you can’t express it clearly, as I argued in my last post, you are not talking […]

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    June 9, 2019June 13, 2019

    Runaway Rant: Did Duchamp Make Art an Exclusive, Elitist Practice?

    [Quick rant over my morning cup(s) of coffee.] By changing art from an image to be seen, into a thing in a gallery or museum to be contemplated in that environment, art stopped being a universal medium and became a practice for the elite only. I live in the so-called “developing world” in Asia [and […]

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    June 8, 2019June 10, 2019

    Someone’s NPC Head Painting Destroyed as Performance Art

    I’m still digesting this. [You can read this brief intro, or skip the preamble and scroll down to the re-blogged article.] If you don’t know what an NPC is, it’s a “non-player character” in a computer game, and the term is used by the far right to ridicule people on the far left who they […]

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    June 4, 2019June 5, 2019

    Abominable Ideas About Art #6: Radical

    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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    June 3, 2019June 30, 2019

    Shocking lack of Women and Artists of Color in American Museums’ Permanent Collections

    The key word here, that might give someone reason to pause, is permanent. But, let me outline the argument, first. The underlying premise is that non-white men, and women of color in particular, are systematically being excluded from the permanent collections of art museums in America due to racism and sexism. In such a case, […]

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    June 1, 2019June 3, 2019

    Reflections on: The Personal in Art

    [Usually I call these impromptu writings “runaway rants”, but that implies a certain combativeness or railing against something, which is sometimes true. “Reflections” is probably more fair, at least when I’m not objecting to something offensively stupid.] Sometimes something is so goddamned obvious we don’t see it, and I would not think this about myself […]

June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

When Bullshit Becomes Overwhelming

May 30, 2019May 30, 2019

New Art [Page Revised]

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

Where I get my views, and what I can learn from it.

May 23, 2019May 26, 2019

The Ugly Truth: It was Beauty all Along

May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

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

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 13, 2019May 14, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #5: The Purpose of Art is to Ask Questions

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019
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New Art: SFAU # 31

May 6, 2019May 7, 2019

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

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019

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

April 6, 2019April 7, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #4: If Michelangelo were alive today, he’d be a conceptual artist.

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #3: The Public Decides What Art Means

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

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

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

Runaway Rant: A Problem with Morality and Art

March 25, 2019May 15, 2019

Abominable Ideas About Art #2: All Art is Political

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

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    Koons, Appropriation, and Plagiarism (Again)!
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  • Arthur Danto’s “The End of Art”: Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
  • Killing the Imagination in the Name of Art

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