Design and Art The murals that bedeck the sides of the 50s era Bowl-a-Rama on Glencarin and Bathurst, in Toronto, have an eerie resemblance to the larger Barnett Newman work, of the same time. Why is Newman art and Bowl-a-Rama design ? (Newman intere[…]
Jesus Saves but he Doesn’t Invest. W. all respect to Mr Sinker, i think that while trying to point out a peice of xian kitsch, he missed the most important point–by just saying haha look at the incongrus matching of jesus and commerce he[…]
Miss Teak Stuff Ingenuity and Culture in Contemporary Danish Crafts. This was the York Quay’s offing for the SuperDanish festival, held in the Harbourfront center of Toronto would have been perfect, an examination of northern culture and how it[…]
Some Thoughts on Britney and Paris as Socio-Cultural Bellwethers. Two unrelated points that I think mean something but am unsure exactly what. 1) I have heard in the last 3 days, Britney Spears single Toxic three times, once at a strip club and twice[…]
Poor Richard
The Camera Always Lies and The Camera Always tells the Truth – Raymond Neilson Avedon is dead, and I think now, a special kind of photography will go with him – he was the one that played both ends against the middle. The on[…]
I’m in an internet café, and its nearing one and this place is a buck an hour, so there are no head phones, but they have Kaaza?so I am listening to Tim McGraw, in an attempt to remember what else I want to put on a list of contempary chart co[…]
The Webs We Weave Mark Lombardi at the AGO Lombardi draws the connections between money, people and power?the famous ones mostly, the connubial bliss of the Papal states and the Banco Ambrosia in Italy, The Charles Keating S and L Wall Street Orgies,[…]
Sex and the Single artist Jeff Koons has lost his law suit, the one that wanted to reduce his lawyers fees from four million dollars to two million, which he has already paid. The law suit was in relation to his porn star ex wife, and his lovely litt[…]
The Killers Press Posters. This poster is labial pink, barbie pink, has the bands name in marquee lights, and the only image is a woman, cut off at the waist, back arched, stripper heels. It’s crass, it’s boring, it’s violent, it ha[…]
John Michael Montgomery Letters To Home All the country stations I listen to are attaching this track to pro-war/pro-soldier campaigns. This is because it manages to combine the concrete and the abstract in a really banal way. Nothing is metioned abo[…]