Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
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Parameter Ghosts is an animation of otherworldly beauty. Technically, it's a random walk through the four-dimensional parameter space of strange attractors.
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Presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path.
What Berger taught is not just how to look at an image - but to look through it and ask why and how.
Mr. Wong died on Friday at 106. A Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and, in later years, maker of fantastical kites, he was one of the most celebrated Chinese-American artists of the 20th century. But because of the marginalization to which Asian-Americans were long subject, he passed much of his career unknown to the general public.
At first glance, modern art and contemporary imperialism make strange bedfellows. The book under review both charts the history of the CIA's work in promoting US corporate interests through its manipulation of culture--what was then called cultural diplomacy-- while also working to define modernism. The reviewer congratulates the author on his first task, but criticizes him on the second.
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Anyone even remotely familiar with Morris’s life and work will understand why it’s a little shocking that the Royal Navy has used his prints in nuclear submarines. A well-known leftist, Morris became highly critical of Britain’s imperialist ambitions during the 1880s and actively campaigned as a communist, speaking at demonstrations and rallies across the country.
A discussion on the creative resistance of John Sellers, co-founder of Other 98%.
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