Category Archives: Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.

getting smug over the “fallen dancer”

bad public art….. By Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Every city has it’s examples of really bad urban sculpture. these things are usually funded by self-righteous fine art mavens foisting their idea of “good taste and breeding” down the throats of … Continue reading

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the 30 million dollar fawcett

It was a one for two gift apparently. The other one hung from a paper moon of sorts. Farah Fawcett bequethed two Warhol silkscreen portraits in her will, but one never made it to the institution in Texas. It was … Continue reading

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giants: part metal packets

Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous  structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading

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a social skin saturated with designs

New skins and old ceremonies. Its a complex visual language. Body art is not merely “decoration”, but instead, part of a highly patterned cultural universe.The appeal of body painting is a fascinating juxtaposition between the ancient providing avenues of communication … Continue reading

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gold bugs: buried with their booty

Among the allies of the Trojans in their bitter war to save their city were men from the far off land of Thrace. According to Homer, their chariots were laden with silver and gold and their weapons were also of … Continue reading

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LA confidential: ultra vox & roll over beethoven

California, and Los Angeles used to pretty cool…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) One of the things we’ve forgotten about is just how cool Los Angeles was in the mid-sixties. Maybe our forgetting was intentional, actually. After them hippies went … Continue reading

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An audacity of hope: art non grata?

Or is it an audacity to call it art? Its audacity not to call it art. Peter Alexander Por’s recent   exhibit called Persona Non Grata- The Veil of History seemed to rile the back hairs of a large number … Continue reading

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failures of empathy:aesthetics of doubt

The basic problem that Walter Benjamin was uncovering was the relation between law and justice as it leaned on violence.The struggle of the divine power with mythological violence.  His “Critique on Violence” addressed the question of whether violence in the … Continue reading

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claudel: before the poison

She was seventeen and wanted to be a sculptor. He was forty-one. He was Auguste Rodin on the verge of  taking to the heights of the French art world, being compared to genius of Michelangelo. He had overcome the major … Continue reading

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every good work of art is a kind of joke

“No , the French spirit will never live in this German larva, in this beer-filled thing which is at the Salon.” wrote a rival sculptor in the “Revue de Monde Catholique”. Others dubbed Rodin “the Michelangelo of the goiter”. The … Continue reading

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