How To Restore A More Vibrant Meaning To The Concept Of ‘Genius’
A genius shows us ourselves and our world in a way we couldn’t have seen them before, as Harold Bloom has frequently observed.
Spaniard Defaces 15th-Century Religious Statue In Name Of ‘Restoration’
As you may have seen in the news, there’s been another art ‘restoration’ incident, this time in the village church at Rañadorio, in the northwest Spanish region of Asturias.
Reading The Great Books Well Should Transcend Moralism
Karen Swallow Prior’s ‘On Reading Well’ offers some excellent advice for drawing moral lessons from literature, but sometimes great art proves so ambiguous that drawing pat conclusions is difficult.
How Two Of History’s Greatest Artists Reimagined The Earth As Map Makers
It’s fascinating to think about what these maps by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer have meant to the history of mankind.
The Age Of Didacticism Is Out To Kill Comedy
There’s no way to make comedy didactic, so the enforcers of mandatory ‘woke’ culture are coming to destroy comedy altogether.
How Star Trek Became A Tribal Battleground Of PC Art
Why is it ‘weird’ for Ted Cruz to be a Star Trek fan? Because the left is using PC didacticism to mark off parts of the culture as their tribal territory.
Tastemakers Have Opened The Floodgates Of Preachy PC Art
An Alanis Morissette jukebox musical shows how mainstream culture is openly embracing the idea of a didactic or propagandistic role for art.
Backlash To ‘This Is America’ Remixes Shows Woke Art Must Be Engaged, But On Strict Terms
Woke Art and its purveyors and cheerleaders demand engagement with Woke Art but only in very specific, approved ways.
Tom Wolfe Was America’s Carnival Barker
Tom Wolfe, the journalist and novelist who died yesterday at 88, was our enthusiastic guide to the raucous and colorful spectacle that is America.
‘This Is America’ Is The Epitome Of Preachy PC Art
Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’ is typical of the art championed by our cultural elites: little artistic content, but loud, didactic political messaging.
Visit The Rockies And The Alps In One Location At Newark Museum
The Newark Museum’s new exhibition provides an enlightening examination of two simultaneous currents in nineteenth-century American and European art.
Art Galleries Willing To Go Full Narcissist Can Generate Huge Crowds
The art world’s current conundrum is that encouraging individuals to engage with art often involves appealing to their narcissistic instincts.
Francisco De Zurbarán’s Jacob And 12 Sons Are Perfect Viewing For Holy Week And Passover
‘Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons,’ a current Frick exhibit, brings together for the first time in this country 13 monumental paintings of the biblical patriarch Jacob and his 12 sons.
Barack Obama’s Presidential Portrait Fits Him Perfectly
After having a look at every portrait of every president since the very beginning, I like President Obama’s portrait. It is not only accurate, but refreshing.
Victory Over PC Art Censorship In England Proves We Can Have Nice Things If We Try
It wasn’t puritanical conservative activists who wanted the painting removed. It was the new puritan — the woke activist.
Lana Del Rey’s Devolution From Transcendant To Trendy
Lana Del Rey (real name Elizabeth Grant) is caught between being an act and an activist. Time will tell where this takes her artistry.
Is ‘The Last Da Vinci’ Really Worth $450 Million?
So is Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ worth $450 million? I don’t think that’s the real question—or at least, it’s not the ultimate one.
How Politically Correct Art Is Leading To The Age Of Didacticism
The left, for all its institutional dominance in the arts, is substituting an uninspiring didacticism for artistic creativity.
With Gold Toilet Offer, Guggenheim Competes With Trump In Vulgarity
The White House asked the Guggenheim Museum for a Vincent van Gogh painting. The museum offered it a potty joke.
The Vatican’s Créche Is Bad, But Not For Celebrating Homosexuality
The créche is an 800-year-old emblem of divinity ushered into time and history. It is a theological symbol, not a political one.
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