Quote for Today: Jill Christman
Those books, pasted together by my grandmother, year after year, replaced the cognitive exercise of memory for me. Sitting on a section of wall-to-wall carpeting, drinking the bubbling red birch …
Quote for Today: James Rosenquist
Popular culture isn’t a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images …
Quote for Today: Michele Jennae
On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the days Painting pictures over months and Writing our …
A Question of Currency: Mark Wagner’s Money is Material
Reality is shaped by human constructs of which nature never dreamed. Art exposes and reevaluates these things, creating necessary discomfort. Let’s talk about money, once labeled the “root of all …
Wondrous and Disturbed: In the Realms of the Unreal
We read everyday of outsiders who become violent. Here is the story of an outsider who found another way: art. When Henry Darger passed away in 1973 at the age …