Search Results: self objectification
Humankind, at the very least, compels us to rethink fashionably pessimistic assumptions about human nature.
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It is the loss of memories and the meaning of memory that dominate, generating speculations that draw the reader into and through Maria Stepanova’s argument and interpretations.
Read MoreYears (or would that be decades?) ago, editors had the self-respect to be embarrassed by critical incompetence, perhaps because there was the assumption that knowledgeable people were reading the paper. Those discriminating readers are long gone from the marginalized arts section of The Boston Globe . . . By Bill Marx I haven’t seen the…
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Betye Saar’s assemblages and travel sketchbooks are rich in references and symbols; they are mysterious and introspective, more spiritual than political.
Read MoreDrunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.
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John Gray’s pessimism is a direct descendant of the cultural pessimism preached by Oswald Spengler, whose best-seller, “The Decline of the West,” played a major role in the growth of fascism in the 1920s and ’30s.
Read MoreAmerican Moor is a terrific meditation on Othello and race.
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While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.
Read MoreThe Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.
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Arts Commentary: Separating the Maker from the Made, the Doer from the Doing
It is natural to believe that there is (or should be) a close connection between the personality and the work.
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