Assimilation and Resistance in Advanced Capitalism ABSTRACT Since 2005, street art has enjoyed rapid increases in market value. Works by Banksy, a notorious street art vandal, regularly fetch in excess of $500,000 at auction. While street artists often turn to the traditional media of painting and sculpture to supplement their illegal activities, budding artists employ …
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Postmodern? Art and Architecture in the Third Reich
An earlier version of this essay was presented to Donald Kuspit’s Spring 2007 graduate seminar, “Varieties of Realism in 20th Century Art” at Stony Brook University. The present version originally appeared in Art Criticism Volume 22, Number 2, 2007. I am deeply grateful to Donald Kuspit and Leah Modigliani for their comments and suggestions in …
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Music
I’ve been fairly active in music since a very early age. I remember flipping through my dad’s record collection and playing records by the Beach Boys and *shudder* Mylon LeFevre. In Junior High and High School, I played trombone and euphonium, and to this day I can play Just a Gigolo on just about any brass instrument in existence, and …
The 5 Elements of Photography – the Subject
Ok. First, there is Light, and, second, a human to capture that light (by accident or with purpose). But light, in a void, is meaningless, and, indeed, it takes Two to Tango. So we need something to take a picture of, a fleeting moment or static to capture, to fix in a more permanent form than …
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365.46 Point of Impact (1)
This is the passenger side door handle from my beloved (and no-longer-extant) 1970 Volkswagon Beetle—a plain Beetle, none of that ‘super’ stuff—that was destroyed by a nice woman in a 1984 Ford Bronco in 1998 or 1999. I’m not really sure of the date any more… I think the police must have brought me the …
365.81 Spring Creek Forest Preserve Photowalk
I came across an oddity in Dallas county… the Spring Creek Forest Preserve in Garland TX, of all places. So Momma and I went out there (all 10 minutes from her North Dallas abode) and wandered around for a few hours. From the time we left the car (about 9:15am) until we were leaving (about 11:45am), …
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365.137 a bad capture of some brilliant light
If you pay attention, there’s a great light show going on somewhere nearby at virtually any time of the day or night. Realizing this fact and coming to appreciate light of all types is, on my view, one of the keys to improving skill as a photographer. Sometimes it’s easy to capture the amazing light …
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