Category: The Arts

Bend Over, Red Rover

The Arts 39 Comments

Submitted by reader Peter G: My recent pic of arguably the ugliest public “art” installation in Vancouver — and that’s saying something. Chinese sculptor (from China). I masked the background to b&w in search for a grotesque. False Creek seawall.

“Against the dehumanization of art”

The Arts What He Said 70 Comments

“Bumped”, I suppose you could say. Because I was reminded of it.

This post was originally published April 19, 2008. The New Criterion link has expired, but you can still read it here. Take your time. Read the comments, too.

“When I was in the army, many years ago, I was an infantryman, and in the course of what I saw, and did, and came to understand, I was broken. Sometime after I had returned to the United States and my life had resumed, I rounded a corner in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and saw a painting I had known all my life but which I had not until that moment been able to understand. This was Winslow Homer’s masterfully restrained portrait of a veteran returning to his fields. The generation touched by fire in the Civil War understood the great import of this painting, they knew why the veteran had his back turned to the painter, why he was alone, why he worked in utter quiet, why the light was so clear, the scene so tranquil. After years of war and destruction, they understood, and after having passed this painting for the first time as a man, so did I.”

Rock and Roll Machine

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When I was a kid there was a time when this was my favorite band. Good documentary, the trailer doesn’t do it justice.

My favorite story was Gil Moore talking about how in the early days he found the big flame thrower to put in front of his drum kit.

Attention, People Of Pallor

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Are you unenthused by hip-hop tracks about “police brutality and racialised oppression”? Does rapping about poverty and “the woes of Black Americans as artists” not render you giddy and enthralled? Do you not delight in endless repetition of the word “nigga”? I ask because we’re told, by Dr Jeremy McCool and Dr Tyrone Smith, two enthusiasts of “critical race theory,” that a failure to gush with enthusiasm is a result of “systemic bias and inherent prejudice,” and is suppressing such innovation. It is, they say, “The silencing of intellectuals in music.”

I kid you not.

Neil Who?

Media The Arts Wuhan Flu 66 Comments

Update (from Kate):

The singer-songwriter appears to have already backed out of the ultimatum given that he deleted the open letter he had posted to his website.

“Young likely realized that he has no grounds to make the demands. Rogan has an exclusive deal with Spotify and Young sold 50% of the rights to his music to a British investment company a year ago,” writes Christina Maas.

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