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If You Think DC Is Snobby, Wait Until You Read This
Did you appreciate that title? Well unless you are one of my subscribers, you had to click on it to get here, so we must suppose the answer is, “Yes.” As you‘ve taken my clickbait, let’s consider the...
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A Special Voice for the Special Needs Community
If you’ll allow me, I want to make a shameless plug for one of the people I most admire in the world of new media. Daniel Smrokowski is the founder and host of Special Chronicles, a podcast focusing on...
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Stupid Times, Stupid Media
Stupid Times, Stupid Media On a somewhat regular basis, I see friends and followers on social media commenting on news stories with the observation, “What a stupid time to be alive.” Generally...
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The (Wearable) Gospel Of John
I have a bit of shameless electronic nepotism for you today, gentle reader, which I hope you will choose to participate in. If you watch “The Journey Home” on EWTN, you may have seen the recent...
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Museum Madness: Why I Was Right To Worry About The Met
I’m afraid that today’s post is going to involve a lot of links, but trust me – it’s a fascinating and important story, and one that I greet with a mixture of satisfaction in knowing that I was right...
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Waiting To Change: An Update
I hope you had a blessed and happy Easter. Mine was so unbelievably full of activity, that by the time I got to evening on Easter Sunday, I was so exhausted that I’d made myself ill. I can well...
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Saving The Soviets: The Art Media Loses Its Mind In Moscow
Much of the city of Moscow, as you are probably aware, was scarred with hideous buildings during the Soviet era. Films such as “The Bourne Supremacy” show the bleakness of 20th century Muscovite...
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Suffering As Joke: The Horrors Of The Contemporary Art Press
As regular subscribers know, I read about a dozen or so outlets of the art press every day, so that you don’t have to. Most of the time, I focus on following stories that I like: fascinating...
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The Courtier In Chicago: “Cloudy Witnesses”
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve been invited to speak to the Catholic Art Guild in Chicago on Saturday, May 5th, at 11:00 am. I’ll be speaking on a problem that has been plaguing the art world...
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Piling It On, Or, Why Do I Read This Stuff…
You don’t often see me write about Contemporary Art on this site, and there are various reasons for that. Among these is the fact that I prefer to read and think and write about art and design created...
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