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Goya’s Las Rinde el Sueño (Sleep Overcomes Them) and Que Pico de Oro (What a Golden Beak)
Goya speaks to our modern world of oppression of the poor, arrogance of the rich and their fawning followers as though he created Los Caprichos yesterday.
This entry was posted on July 19, 2013 and is filed under art criticism, Goya. -
Art and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Art of Democracy, Film, Uncategorized. -
Eleanor Harvey’s groundbreaking exhibition The Civil War and American Art
What we can learn from this art in the midst of the national trauma of the Civil War : I celebrate Eleanor Jones Harvey interpretations of Civil War paintings and photographs in her excellent exhibition and book “The Civil War and American Art”.
This entry was posted on July 3, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art in War, Civil War, Uncategorized.
