Two powerful poems by Gershwin Wanneburg. Difficult subjects, innovative forms.
There are levels to this darkness: Two Poems
A Tale of Two Presidents
“The room was small, dim and a desiccated yellow colour but the handshake and welcome were warm and clearly genuine. The man who once held the most powerful job in the world was dressed in casual shades of black and grey.”
Hanging Around Lambertville
“It’s easy for your art career to get derailed. The important thing is to get it back on track.”
Noir as Societal Mirror: Julien Duvivier’s PANIQUE
“And unfortunately, in our strange and uncertain times, maybe a brutal “it can happen here” wake-up call is what we need.”
The Writing is on The Wall
Brassaï declares that the “bastard art of the streets of ill repute that does not even arouse our curiosity, so ephemeral that it is easily obliterated by bad weather or a coat of paint, nevertheless offers a criterion of worth. Its authority is absolute, overturning all the laboriously established canons of aesthetics”
The Advocacies of Edirin John Duvwiama’s Photography
“Photography is enough in itself for existing, and so are the many advocacies of Bliss’ photography.”
An Interview With Don Julien: When the world is quiet
We were grateful for the opportunity to ask Don Julien a few questions about his photography.
How Free is Free: Ben Shahn, the Statue of Liberty, and the History of American Art
Historians of American art are engaged in a search for ways in which to speak meaningfully and broadly about contested traditions and about both the promises and limits of the country’s national iconography and history, to a nation fragmented along racial, ethnic, class, and religious lines.
Flash fiction: Storm Warning
The river smell becomes the rain smell, and the rain comes, as it always does, expected but surprising, changing everything.
Korean Folk Painting: Minhwa
“The power of Minhwa lies ultimately in the fact that it participates in a universal code — a common denominator for all living human beings, a core of desires and beliefs that is tied to basic human activities … “
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