Unless you have been living in a remote cave somewhere on your own, divorced from the world of the internet and therefore unaware of the phenomena of online friends, the whole concept probably baffles you as much as it does me. Many of the social media sites, particularly Facebook, actively encourage you to collect friends [...]
The definition of a cult film is as slippery as any eel. Around its boundaries are pure camp movies, hopelessly dated films, movies so bad they’re good, and the like. Authorities seem never to agree on one unambiguous definition for a cult classic. There will, apparently, always be fuzzy edges and movies argued for and [...]
Artist Paul Cezanne spoke to the question when he said: “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Emotion is the starting point, the beginning and the end. Craftsmanship and technique are in the middle.” You may remember reading that the first time I saw a photograph of Jean Moulin, [...]
Hardee High School Algebra teacher Jackie Brown looks fine for a Pee Wee Valley, Kentucky girl who died twenty-seven years ago. Death had had its eye on her for a long time. “I was a very sickly child,” she said. After Jackie endued a long hospital stay as an infant in Oldham County, her doctor [...]
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Business Conglomerate is now on the defensive in regards to the document leaks, concerning the Vatican Bank’s offshore Cayman Islands banking division. Quite recently, like clockwork online religious publications on the internet, National Catholic Reporter has a story titled Why the ‘Vatican Bank’ doesn’t exist, or in Catholic Culture has a [...]
The popular image of the starving artist in the nineteenth century may have faded nowadays into myth, but many who strive to create still exist in the twenty-first century equivalent of the cold and draughty garret. While many struggling writers today hold down a day job to feed themselves and their families, there are a [...]
Is there a typical male art buyer? No more and no less than there is a typical male clothing buyer or car buyer. That still means they buy like men and not like women. Do more men buy animal scenes and sports-related art? Certainly. Still, most men truisms never equate to every man realities. So, [...]
What is life? What’s it all about? We are conceived, then nine months later we’re born. If all goes well we live for seventy plus years then we die. Life places all kinds of obstacles in our way, or should that read fate, or maybe chance, I don’t know for sure. The one thing I [...]
As a buyer, I know that buying art is the most exciting event. As a buyer, I know that I enjoy every piece of part I have purchased every single day of my life as I give it admiring glances as I pass by. Every once in a while for no particular reason, a painting [...]
An article on tolerance got me thinking about Judith Levine and Peter Singer, two people I’d rather not think about. Levine suggests that sex between children and adults in some circumstances is not only okay but actually a good thing for the child. She says most kids will say yes to sexuality at some point [...]
