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Category: Art

  • I Want to Sing – Regina Spektor

    YouTube – I want to sing – Regina Spektor. “Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born Jewish-American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centred on New York City’s East Village.” Regina’s highly original lyrics and composition, which confounds cliché at every turn, present a singular artistic genius. Her songs equate to deliciously […]

  • Ideas as ‘Art’

    Ideas do not make good films, or good art period. As in, ‘wouldn’t be be clever if we did this?’ Things are never clever when they’re trying to be clever. (Which is a good measure of modern art, which baffles so many. When it’s relying on the higher brain to applaud it, it is likely […]

  • On writing

    From a mail I sent a while ago: You know, I know quite a few writers who can’t write. I don’t mean people who want to write, or people who’d like to be writers. I don’t mean those that just think they are, or are willing but unable. (That ten to the dozen.) I mean, […]

  • Pat Hobaugh

    ‘This series explores the subject of sexuality via contemporary still lifes. These paintings at once demystify the sexual nature of the objects by candidly displaying them for the viewer’s eye, but then remystify their intent by divorcing them from their sexual context via arrangement in the manner of conventional still lifes. Rendered in this liminal […]

  • Jen Stark

    These paper sculptures by artist Jen Stark are pretty captivating; they must surely be an essay in patience and perseverance.  

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