Frustrating!!

I am going through one of those down patches. all artists have them as far as I can tell, berating themselves and vilifying their work. I have so many ideas but I seem to be incapable of putting them down at the moment.

The Naked Face of Art

To my mind there’s precious little point in complaining about the paucity of meaningful art any generation produces. You can’t browbeat artists into producing work that overcomes their audience’s natural resistance to a message.

Bitter Sweet goodbyes

The “My Sweet Lord” display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. Roger Smith Hotel president James Knowles cited the public outcry for his decision.The reaction “is crystal clear and has brought to our attention the unintended reaction of you and other conscientious friends of ours to the exhibition,” Knowles wrote in the two-paragraph cancellation notice.Matt Semler, the gallery’s creative director, resigned in protest.Sioux City Journal: Do you think a Holy Week art exhibit featuring a nude chocolate Jesus should have been shut down?:I wish I could say this didn’t surprise me, but I am sorry.

*Cry*

Even people who work in their dream jobs have bad days. I spent hours today on two pieces for nothing…. I feel like I am losing my focus in my works.

Further website madness

I have Finally finished my implementation of PHPList. it was a horrifying experience I do not wish to repeat but after about 5 re-installs, experiencing the breaking my site completely, fixing my site and the horrors it induced I now have it working perfectly.

The fine line between Art and Porn

In the lobby at the first intermission, we all asked the question, “Is this production art or is it porn?”… After all, the Venusberg does represent carnality, the pure devotion to pleasure. And if Wagner, who wanted to be a dangerous composer, could have shown porn onstage at Paris when he added the first-act bacchanale in 1861, perhaps he would have done so.

Dirty Words for Dirty Minds

That’s the thing about these hothouse youngsters some are so keen to shield from the horror of marble statues of naked Greek athletes and proper name for body parts: If I remember anything about childhood at all, most kids are pretty filthy-minded, especially when it comes to rude terms for body parts and functions.And look at the world they live in! By 9 or 10 – the age of Lucky’s target audience – they’re steeped in the lowest of pop culture, everything from raunchy rap lyrics to the state of dress (or, lately, undress) of barely post-pubescent starlets and singers who present themselves as role models. And one shudders to think of what technically savvy youngsters are stumbling across on the ‘net.Are they really going to be seriously damaged by exposure to the word “scrotum?”