500 Years of Women’s Self Portraits Most of us concerned with art realize that women have been highly undervalued. The infamous Performance Art Group, Gorilla Girls, posits that women are only 7% of...
The most enduring elements in any society are those of self-expression through paintings, music, sculpture, architecture and literature. Our art is the mirror through which we see ourselves, reflecting back to us the way we think, what we believe, and how we feel about and interpret the world around us. And its through these achievements that future generations come to understand the ones that came before.
We love art, in all its forms -- it's exciting, fun, and often provocative. We strive to bring to you works that you won't find anywhere else, and we hope you enjoy our selections.
Ideas Within Ideas
Courting the blissful mind. Although most of us do not think of Mozart or Beethoven as eccentric, in their time certainly they were. Picasso and Duchamp, Scriabin and Schoenberg, all danced to a...
“Out-Unusualing” our Most Unusual Man
Albert Caeiro + Alvaro de Campos + Ricardo Reis + 134 More = 1 Fernando Pessoa Recently Agnituslife published an article claiming that Lefcadio Hearn was the world’s most unusual man. We...
Saved by Graffiti
How street artists rescued Wynwood Florida Here’s a switch — a neighborhood whose rebirth and rejuvenation is owed in part to, of all things, graffiti. Usually scribbling on buildings is...
Birthing A New Dictionary
Or the N E D for the 21 Century That cat is bad(d) That’s cold I’m down How you be (question) Smooth (answer) That’s slapping You dripping Later If you think what you have just read is slang...
The Amazing Life of Ruth Slenczynska
This child prodigy has a new recording, except that now she is 97 years young. Many of us wonder what retirement will be like. Some of us adjust to it rather well while others have a much more...
Must Art Be Moral?
Can a scoundrel can make great art? The morality of a work of art is one of the oldest and most widely debated concepts in the art community today. The question is must we respect the artist as...
The City from Nowhere
Half a century building a city while living in a tent. Although I left the friendly confines of NYC where I was born and raised, I still look forward to the Sunday NY Times as a wonderful weekend...
Alice Neel Lowered the Bar…Then Raised it Again
The Painter’s Painter no one remembers Portrait painting is one of the oldest forms of documentation which still exists today. Its subjects range from Royalty to Madmen, from the oldest and the dying...
The Woman Who Broke Up the Beatles
Yoko Ono before she was Yoko Ono. She is best known as the woman who broke up the Beatles. She is almost as well known as the woman who screeches and screams on John Lennon’s later albums. She...
