What Art Is

Arts Remembrance: His Soapbox Was The Brillo Box — Arthur Danto, 1/1/1924 –10/25/2013

The late Arthur Danto was open to and appreciative of all sorts of possibilities in art, as other visual arts critics were not.

Allen Michie October 22, 2019 at 10:05 am on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”This is a fine overview of Bloom's most influential work. It's good to see an appreciation of Bloom in the...
Harvey Blume October 21, 2019 at 8:14 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Fair enough. A friend pointed me to piece with links to two videos in which a sadly palsied Bloom shares...
Matt Hanson October 21, 2019 at 5:29 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Well, I was certainly aware of those aspects of Bloom's life and work, among plenty of others that I didn't...
Stephen G Provizer October 21, 2019 at 10:11 am on WATCH CLOSELY: Stephen King is My Boyfriend — Hanging out at “Castle Rock”I merely want to add the fact that this is a local production, which employs many in the MA film...
Harvey Blume October 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”I do like this commentary on Bloom but wish Hanson had found some way to take account of Bloom’s writings...