buying Misoprostol online I had an interesting visit to the Met last Saturday. Hoping to take advantage of the 9 p.m. closing, I went with a friend around 8 – a bit late, admittedly, because we had lingered a bit on our way – only to find the line out the Great Hall and down almost all the […]
Category Archives: Art
Alexander McQueen and the Met.
13-Aug-11Our Lady of Loreto in Brooklyn.
13-Aug-11http://viningsnaturalhealthcentre.co.uk/tag/emma-barrington/ Having some friends in the Prospect Heights area of Brooklyn, I have driven Atlantic Avenue fairly often, the road which connects that part of Brooklyn with Richmond Hill in Queens. One day there was some work being done on the road, and I was detoured onto the streets of East New York, where I drove […]
Bad Theology, Bad Art.
05-Jun-11An interesting hypothesis from Tony Woodlief that bad religious art – the sort that cannot stand on its own, but has to have an adjective affixed, like “a Christian novel” – is bad because it is serving a bad (i.e. false) theology. I largely agree with this: religious art used to be better because earlier […]
Bank of America, Wikileaks, and America.
14-Feb-11A most disturbing post from Glenn Greenwald, highlighting apparent Bank of America plans to target several journalists, including Greenwald and Jennifer 8. Lee.
Lead Us Not Into Penn Station.
11-Jun-10Lots of reading getting done here. One book I read last week was Jill Jonnes’ Conquering Gotham, about the construction of Penn Station (ugh these titles; can’t we just call it “The Building of Penn Station”?). The book makes a good read for the NYC enthusiast; part of the pleasure is deepening one’s knowledge of […]
Reflections of an Artist.
16-Mar-10“My gift for composition is not the kind which will ever be ‘successful.’ It is far too subjective for that. When I was a boy I thought I would invent an altogether new art (it would be half-sculpture and half-music, I thought). I began with sculpture and as you know that turned out disastrously. But […]
Simone Weil on Christmas.
25-Dec-09“Beauty is the experimental proof that incarnation is in fact possible.”
On Artistic Discipline.
17-May-11From Carey’s Wallace’s essay on maintaining discipline as an artist. The most difficult of all tasks, for precisely the reason she indicates: There is no such thing, we discovered, as disciplining one corner of a life. There are only disciplined or undisciplined lives. So far I’ve kept to precisely the opposite pattern – bursts of […]