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The idolization of the cheap involves making the average the heroic. ~ Theodor Adorno and Max Horkneimer from The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception There’s nothing like critical and social theory to start the morning. I highly recommend reading the entire essay. Whether you agree with it or not, after all these years, […]
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Art is simple and complicated but its such an alluring and wonderful thing. Yet, let’s face it, money is an issue for any parent hearing their kid plead for an art education (trust me, I know, I begged my Mom when I was in high school). Studying and participating in art is not exactly welcome in a Filipino […]
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Over the weekend, my girlfriend surprised me by reserving the “Nature” room at the Andiron Inn in Little River, CA. It was an amazing couple of days at the Inn. The overall ambiance and decor of the cabins was reminiscent of 1950s/early 1960s in New York’s Andirondacks (that I’ve ever been but I’ve seen pictures […]
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In principle, a work of art has always been reproducible. Man-made artifacts could always be imitated by men. Replicas were made by pupils in practice of their craft, by masters for diffusing their works, and, finally, by third parties in the pursuit of gain. Mechanical reproduction of a work of art, however, represents something new. […]
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Conceptual art was always dialectical, being made in response to both its institutional and its political context, attempting often to make these contexts evident and sometimes actually to change them. ~Tony Godfrey, Art Writer/Historian
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In a society like ours that is accustomed to telecommunications and electronics that produce more and more positive services but also the passivity of the solitary user, community strategy has become a different way of living in the quantitative space of the city; it produces energy but also solitude, aggressivity [sic] and violence. ~Achille Bonito […]
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Over a month ago, I had the privilege of talking to gallery owners, James Bacchi and Annette Schutz, for Asterisk SF magazine. Not only was it a great conversation but a wonderful story of how ArtHaus has flourished over the years through a tough art market. They’re, certainly, a staple in the San Francisco Art Scene and know exactly […]
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. ~Roland Barthes, French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician
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Some time last week, I watched the documentary, My Kid Could Paint That by filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev. The documentary is definitely worth watching being that it forces the viewer to make up their own mind about the Modern Art movement. Pick it up and please feel free to tell me what you think. As the title of today’s posts states, […]
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 