OSVALDO LICINI: REBELLIOUS ANGEL
David Berridge
LESSONS IN LOOKING
RETHINKING WATSON AND THE SHARK
Craig McDaniel
"I WANT MY PAINTINGS TO BE FOREIGN TO ME"
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PAINTER AND VISUAL ARTIST PETER MARTENSEN
SOUTINE KOSSOFF
David Berridge
UKO POST: AN INTERVIEW
BLAIR SAXON-HILL: AN INTERVIEW
A PUBLIC ESSENCE
A Review of the MMFA’s ‘The World of Yousuf Karsh: A Private Essence’
Connor Harrison
AMER KOBASLIJA: AN INTERVIEW
ALYSSA MONKS: AN INTERVIEW
GIDEON RUBIN: AN INTERVIEW
Bob Dylan (1965). Photo: Jerry Schatzberg
A (JEWISH) FAN'S NOTES: BOB DYLAN AND THE AMERICAN PAST
A.E. Smith
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TO STRIVE OR STAND STILL: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALISON DARCY
Julia Edelman
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BUCKWILD AND DOWNTON ABBEY: TV'S SOCIAL REALITY
David Mould
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THE DREAM HOUSE
Robert Boucheron
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CHRIS BURDEN'S METROPOLIS
By Robin Tung
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JAKUB DOLEJS
James D. Campbell
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REPURPOSED CHURCHES
Photo essay by Mark Lavorato
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RITHIKA MERCHANT
Interviewed by Robin Tung
LYONEL FEININGER
FROM MANHATTAN TO THE BAUHAUS
BY PATRICK KENNEDY
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GUSTAV KLIMT: THE UNIVERSE IN A KISS
BY STEPHANIE ANN HARPER
RELATIVISM, PERSPECTIVISM, AND CITIZEN KANE
BY DANIEL SHAW
Citizen Kane is one of the most philosophically intriguing films ever made, on several levels. It begins with the screening of a rather conventional newsreel which its producer finds unsatisfying. He assigns a journalist to interview several of Kane's closest friends, trying to solve the mystery of Kane's dying word ("Rosebud"), as a novel angle from which to get at two more fundamental issues: Who was Charles Foster Kane and what was the meaning of his life? The diverse points-of-view that his interviewees bring to these two questions illustrates Nietzsche's perspectivism with striking clarity... | read |
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CINEMA | RED ROAD
BY BESTE ALPAY
Red Road is a movie which uses visuality to create the sensation of touch and most of the time leads the viewer to associate the visual material with sensations of the "haptic"... | read |
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JAZZ & PHOTOGRAPHY | DARK ROOMS
BY BENJAMIN CAWTHRA
The music came first, then the photographs... |
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PORTRAITS AND PERSONS
BY CYNTHIA FREELAND
As a philosopher I ask different questions about portraits than art historians. I am interested in how portraiture helps illuminate questions about persons and selves... | read |
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BIOGRAPHY | MICHELANGELO
BY WILLIAM E. WALLACE
Michelangelo Buonarroti is universally recognized to be among the greatest artists of all time... | read |
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THE REAL REAL THING
BY WENDY STEINER
Any creation story is a story about models, for as King Lear reminds us, "Nothing can come of nothing." Models generate entities "made in their own image." They are the Real peeking out at us from the mirror of art... | read |
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INTERVIEW WITH BETTY SHAMIEH
Intreview with is the playwright and actress Betty Shamieh | read |
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PHOTOGRAPHY | ALFRED STIEGLITZ
BY KATHERINE HOFFMAN
In "Stieglitz: A Beginning Light ," Katherine Hoffman focused on the early years of Alfred Stieglitz's (1864-1946) career and his European roots. Now, she presents a compelling portrait of his life and career from 1915 to 1946, focusing on his American works, issues of identity, and the rise of Modernism... | read |
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ART AND PROCESS WITH NOA KAPLAN
BY ROBIN TUNG
My arrival at the Broad Center at UCLA is rushed; there has been traffic, to no one's surprise, on the 405, and Westwood is bustling at the lunch hour with students, shoppers, and medical professionals. The Broad Center is a white building with long glass panels, and doors propped open to the gallery where I first encountered Noa Kaplan's exhibit, "Pollen"... | read |
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NEW YORK, FILM AND RECONCEPTION OF THE WORLD
BY STANLEY CORKIN
I began researching Starring New York before I finished my prior book, Cowboys as Cold Warriors. In that book I considered a group of film westerns in their relationships to U. S. Cold War culture and politics...| read |
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ON ART FOR ART'S SAKE
BY R. JOSEPH CAPET
'Art for art's sake' is a much misunderstood phrase. In the public imagination it is invariably the oriflamme of Decadents and Aesthetes... | read |
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BETWEEN SENSE AND DE KOONING
BY RICHARD SHIFF
Even as he became a celebrity in the world of art, Willem de Kooning took pride in remaining an ordinary man, living (he liked to say) as he had when he was unknown and poor. He resisted the aesthetic and intellectual fashions of his era... | read |
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INTERVIEW | LANI IRWIN
"The term message or the idea of message is one that plays no specific role in my work. That is not to say that I am inattentive to ways in which objects, gestures, relationships in the paintings could be..." | read |
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TAKING MOVIES SERIOUSLY
BY DANIEL SHAW
Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously is a brief overview of the history of philosophizing about film, which begins with a survey of early film theorists that had a philosophical bent (like Munsterberg and Eisenstein) and with profiles of the two most significant writers in the field so far, Stanley Cavell and Noel Carroll... | read |
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ART | BEHIND VASARI'S PRINTED WORD
LYALL F. HARRIS
"...that villain time cannot consume what you have written." These were Paolo Giovio's words in a letter to Giorgio Vasari after the 1550 publication of Lives of the Artists... | read |
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ART HISTORY | BURSTING THE DAM
BY RACE CAPET
Norm and Exception in the Career of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1848-1853 | read |
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ART | PHOTOGRAPHY: ART OR ARTIFICE?
BY TERRY BUCHANAN
It can be suggested that photography is a process of reception and art is a process of transmission... | read |
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"Mermaid's Story" by Alan Feltus (2003, oil on canvas)
INTERVIEW | ALAN FELTUS
When I was an art student, I became aware of the tendency I had to make very quiet paintings... | read |
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ART | INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST AND ART DEALER AMEL CHAMANDY
Creativity can not be taught, it is something that is born within you...
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CORNO | AN INTERVIEW
A conversation with the Canadian painter Corno | read |
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GLENN HARRINGTON | AN INTERVIEW
A conversation with the American oil painter Glenn Harrington | read |
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SLIM AARONS | A WONDERFUL TIME
In his twenties he photographed the horrors of the Second World War. Years later Slim Aarons, who lost his twin brother in the war and won a Purple Heart, said for The New York Times that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was "decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun." | read |
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ALEX COLVILLE | CANADIAN LEGENDS
"What troubles people about my work, in which they find mystery and intrigue, may well be the idea that ordinary things are important." | read |
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