121 Articles

Sunday, November 15, 2009
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SECRECY - a think-piece begun in 1975
(3 comments) Information is power.

Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Contemporary Artist Leon Golub: Six More Images from his Portraits of Power Paintings
(4 comments) A selection of Leon Golub's works, including these six paintings and a photograph of the artist, can be found in the “Painters” section at artnet's Artist Works Catalogues. For me, Golub's “power” paintings are the artistic equivalent of the movie treatment of suicide (which is devoid of interpersonal physical violence) in “The Virgin Suicides”.

Saturday, November 7, 2009
Leon Golub – Picturing Some Complications of Power
Leon Golub's paintings deal with stress and violence. These six depict the artist's interpretation of some of the domestic consequences of the greatest violence ever unleashed internationally, by the most powerful nation on the planet – America.

Monday, October 26, 2009
The Greens and Blues and Blacks and Oranges of Donald Sultan, A Most Original and Recognizable Painter
(1 comments) All eight of these works by Donald Sultan are contained in the artist's “paintings” section at artnet's Artist Works Catalogues. But all eight paintings are accompanied with the artist's descriptions of their “Medium” which indicate they are also “constructions.” So I've included these descriptions with the names of the paintings.

Friday, October 23, 2009
Jimmy Ernst, Five Decades of Just Another American Modernist
(8 comments) I hope you're not getting bored with the art I've been posting here at OpEdNews. It might distract you a few seconds from the world of bombs and torture. At least, that's why it's here.

Sunday, October 18, 2009
William T. Wiley and the Definition of “Mixed Media”
(7 comments) Most OEN readers probably lack any clear idea of what constitutes “mixed media” – like, it's a contemporary expression of post-painting art. But what is THAT?

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Daniel Garber, An American Bridge Between French Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism?
(8 comments) These pictures have been sitting in my files for months. While my more political pieces have been appearing at OpEdNews. It felt really good to watch them again, and submit them here for publication. Daniel Garber is a great artist.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Arlene Slavin's Functional Art: Where Talent and Perfection Intersect
Arlene Slavin is an artist of varied interests and a perfectionist.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
An Appreciation of Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Full Spectrum Dominance, by Noam Chomsky
(3 comments) Hegemony or Survival was published in 2004 as an American Empire Project book.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
A Selection from Herb Ritts' 1993 African Photographs
(5 comments) In his life and work, Herb Ritts was drawn to clean lines and strong forms. This graphic simplicity allowed his images to be read and felt instantaneously. They often challenged conventional notions of gender or race.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Arlene Slavin's Murals Since 1978 and Paintings Since 1989: Where Talent and Perfection Intersect
(2 comments) Arlene Slavin is an artist and a perfectionist.

Thursday, October 1, 2009
An Appreciation of the Book “Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties” by W. J. Rorabaugh
This book should have been titled “Kennedy and the Promise of the Kennedy Sixties” because it is basically a history of prominent social, cultural and political developments during JFK's almost 1,000 days in office as 35th President of the United States.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
An Introductory Book Review of “Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography,” by Ignacio Ramonet
(1 comments) Over the last seven months, John Little has posted at OpEdNews his remarkable review of the book “Fidel Casto: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography” by Ignacio Ramonet. John's review was composed of twenty installments, progressing through the book chapter by chapter. This is my brief review of the first 230 pages of the book, followed by links to John's series of reviews here at OEN.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, by Evan S. Connell
(8 comments) I enjoyed Son of the Morning Star so much, I read it twice.

Monday, September 7, 2009
Hoffa, the Movie. A Summary Review for Labor Day
(5 comments) What happened to this movie? Has anyone found it in their local library's catalogue? (It's not in my library's.) Jimmy Hoffa was an American original, and only Jack Nicholson could have done justice to his character in this movie. But am I going crazy? Or would Hoffa the movie be totally unknown in America today if Danny DeVito hadn't been a beloved TV comedian in 1992?

Friday, September 4, 2009
An Appreciation of the movie De-Lovely, with Kevin Kline as Cole Porter
(4 comments) I caught this 2004 movie last night on MGMHD television, but I missed a lot because it lacked subtitles. And not being musically gifted, and/or bisexual, I was ignorant of any particulars of Cole Porter's professional and personal life; as ignorant as any man could be who was born in central Texas in 1941 and raised in a household where the words bisexual and homosexual were words never heard.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Remembering Helen Suzman: I Hate Bullies and I Like Simple Justice
(3 comments) Helen Suzman died on January 1. But she will be remembered and her name joined with that of Nelson Mandela's when men's puny efforts to control our planet are long forgot.

Saturday, April 25, 2009
A Review of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron (1990)
(11 comments) In 1985, at the age of sixty and near the peak of a heralded writing career, William Styron was struck down for the first time in his life by depression.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
"Jesus" Saves, by Jerry Saltz
(1 comments) This is not just one article.

Friday, April 17, 2009
Albert Watson, Photographer Extraordinaire. Part 3: The Las Vegas Pictures
(1 comments) Presented by Lloyd Rowsey and Laurel Steele.

Monday, April 13, 2009
Albert Watson, Photographer Extraordinaire. Part 2: Revolutionary China in 1979
(1 comments) Presented by Lloyd Rowsey and Laurel Steele

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Occasional Definitions from The Devil's Dictionary
(5 comments) Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) defines five words beginning with "M."

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Personal Advice for Windows Users
(3 comments) I found a way to keep track of your computer's CPU usage. If it drops to zero and stays there, and you can't get anything to run, beware.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Albert Watson, Photographer Extraordinaire. Part 1: 3 Men and 3 Women
(11 comments) Presented by Lloyd Rowsey and Laurel Steele

Friday, March 27, 2009
Obama Nominates Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of Health & Human Services
(2 comments) Kathleen Sebelius (born on May 15, 1948) is...currently serving as the 44th Governor of Kansas. She is the second female governor of Kansas...and...(s)he is President Barack Obama's choice to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Friday, March 27, 2009
An American Photographer in Hong Kong, Part 4: The 100 X 100 Series
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
"Confidence" - A Movie Review
This action movie starring Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, and Andy Garcia was released in 2003 (9 APF) - that is, nine years After Pulp Fiction - and I suspect it inspired the TV series Burn Notice.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
The Stark Facts About Violence Against Women
(4 comments) by Elizabeth Schulte, at Dissident Voice on March 19, 2009. Dissident Voice and OpEdNews have a mutual piece-sharing agreement. Submitted by Gentry Rowsey.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
An American Photographer in Hong Kong, Part 3: The Back Door Series
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
An American Photographer in Hong Kong, Part 2: The Architecture of Density Series
(4 comments) Michael Wolf has lived in China since 1994

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
An American Photographer in Hong Kong, Part 1: The Real Fake Art Series
(10 comments) As a photographer, Michael Wolf has come to believe his camera can capture a culture. Which is to say, capture it directly with images of people, their activities, and immediate surroundings, instead of indirectly like landscape paintings reflect exploration or cultural land uses.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Surrealist Portraiture – Five Paintings by Almut Heise
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Hitch-Hiking from Marin County to Grants Pass, in 1975
(6 comments) I was living in Marin County, and my freshman roomie and his wife were both Poly Sci profs at the U of O, and I got this wild hair to hitch-hike to Eugene and visit them.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Dorothea Rockburne – Introducing Mathematics into 20th Century Optical Art
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
David Maisel, Contemporary Art, and Protest and Reportage Photography
(4 comments) The first set of six photographs below is straightforward. They are aerial photographs of five strip mining sites in Arizona and one site in Montana. I would be hard-put to decide whether 'protest photography' or 'reportage photography,' more accurately describes these works

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Book Review: The Thinnest of Ice and The Ravening Maw
(3 comments) "Villa and Zapata" deserves reading twice, the book is so rich in detail and the Mexican Revolution was so fascinating and timeless. But it's likely only dedicated students and historians have given it much attention.

Saturday, February 7, 2009
Richard Misrach – A Life of Fine Art, and Reportage and Protest Photography
(11 comments) When I first posted Protest Art/Photography at OEN last September, I realized Richard Misrach was very special. But the times were hectic, what with the election coming and me feeling my way with pictorial articles at OEN. I revisited Misrach at artnet's Artist Works Catalogues last week, and this article is the result. (Some of the photographs' titles include my explanatory words.)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Six Remarkable Contemporary Artists
(2 comments) All six artists can be appreciated at artnet's Artist Works Catalogues. Hunt Slonem, Peter Beard, and Jamalii are new to OEN; but Idell Weber, Burhan Dogancay, and Wangechi Mutu are featured in previous articles

Sunday, February 1, 2009
Abstract-and-Geometric Expressionism – Five Paintings by Nat Mayer Shapiro
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Occasional Definitions from The Devil's Dictionary
(2 comments) Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) defines five words beginning with "M."

Monday, January 26, 2009
A Pictorial Essay - Abstract Expressionism versus Geometric Expressionism
(2 comments) I keep changing my mind about my favorite school of modern painting: I go back and forth between Fauvism and Abstract Expressionism. Like when the Stones and the Beatles were coming out with new albums every six months in the 1960's - my favorite group was whichever one I'd heard the latest good stuff by.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Ben Affleck & Corporate-Sustained Chaos in Central Africa
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Friday, January 23, 2009
John Singer Sargent - Portraitist-Extraordinaire to the Rich and Famous
(3 comments) Sargent was born to American parents in 1856 in Florence, Italy. He spent most of his life traveling in Europe; and he died in Chelsea, England in 1925.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Five Watercolors by Jean Dufy, a Notable 20th Century French Painter
(6 comments) There follow three more watercolors by Dufy, illustrating the combination sketch-and-watercolor approach that many successful watercolorists have used to deal with the imperatives of a free-flowing and slow-drying medium.

Monday, January 19, 2009
An Occasional Quotation from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary – It's Just What the Doctor Ordered!
For Example: (Hunger: n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.)

Sunday, January 18, 2009
An Occasional Quotation from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary – Just What the Doctor Ordered!
(5 comments) An example, from the previous Quotation: Curiosity. n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Monday, January 12, 2009
An Occasional Quotation from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary – Just What the Doctor Ordered!
(2 comments) An example, from the previous Quotation: Curiosity. n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Protest Art – Five Photographic Works by Three Contemporary Artists
(3 comments) Robert Longo, Andres Serrano, and David LaChapelle are photographer-artists of great honesty and remarkable ability. More explicit works by the three artists may be viewed at artnet's Artist Works Catalogues.

Friday, January 9, 2009
An Occasional Dose of Definitions from Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary." They're Just What the Doctor Ordered!
(7 comments) For Example: Aborigines, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
A Late Fauvist Belgian Painter – Rik Wouters
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Your Third Daily Dose of Medicine From Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" – It's Just What the Doctor Ordered!
(7 comments) For Example: Injustice: n. A burden which of all those we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
A Daily Dose of Medicine From Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" – It's Just What the Doctor Ordered
(1 comments) For example, Adder. n. A Species of snake. So called for its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Friday, January 2, 2009
An Early Impressionist American Painter – Mary Cassatt
(3 comments) [[MCA1900]] "Mary Stevenson Cassatt (was) born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson Cassatt. She...(died) on June 14, 1926, at Beaufresne, France, and is buried in the family tomb in the cemetery at Mesnil-Th�ribus...fifty miles from Paris"

Thursday, January 1, 2009
A Daily Dose of Medicine From Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" – It's Just What the Doctor Ordered
(2 comments) For Example: Contempt: n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable to be opposed. And: Egoist: n. A person of low taste, interested in himself more than in me.

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Keith Harmon Snow Forwards "Oh What a Day" From Cynthia McKinney
I'm so glad that my father told me to buy a special notebook and to write everything down because that's exactly what I did.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
One If By land, Two If By Sea. Protest Photography Again, Richard Misrach
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Fine Art on 12.28.008 - Four Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
(3 comments) Two Works Each by Kenny Scharf and Joseph Cornell.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Fine Art on 12.23.008 - Five Abstract Expressionist Paintings by Joan Mitchell
(5 comments) Joan Mitchell as an abstract expressionist composes with long curvilinear strokes or broad stains of color, contrasting warm and cool, often on unprimed canvases

Sunday, December 21, 2008
Protest Art on 12.21.008 - Three Paintings by Ruza Spak
Ms. Spak is new to artnet's Artist Works Catalogues.

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Protest Art on 12.18.008 – Four Photographs by Andres Serrano
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Fine Art on 12/16/008 - Abstract Expressionist Paintings by Four Artists
Abstract Expressionism was painting's premier American innovation in the 20th century. It spread from New York City outward to the world. And the most contemporary and avant garde artists are still inspired by it.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Humorous Protest Art on 12.13.008 -- Again, Vitaly Komar
(2 comments) Vitaly Komar was born in Moscow in 1943, and he attended art school there from 1958 to 1960. Subsequently he studied engineering at the Moscow High School of Industry, and graduated from it.

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Humorous Protest Art on 12.11.008 - The Russian Vitaly Komar
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
For Brave Eyes - Eleven Images on December 8, 2008
(8 comments) From Three Artists -- David LaChapelle, Richard Misrach, and Robert Longo

Saturday, December 6, 2008
Me and Art at OEN
(7 comments) There is one aspect of the Protest Art Series that hopefully will promote sensible politics in the long run.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Protest Art on 12.04.08: 3 Artists, 3 Decades
(2 comments) Selections from 1980, 1991, and 2000.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Protest Photography on 12/3/08 --Richard Misrach & Environmental Awareness
(4 comments) "In wilderness is man's salvation."

Monday, December 1, 2008
Politics & the Arts, Internationalism, and Activism: Interview with Gary Corseri
(4 comments) "Revolution without the Arts is meaningless," writes Gary Corseri, whose articles, poems, stories and plays have appeared in hundreds of periodicals and websites worldwide. "I don't think we've had really good and effective political art since the Beat Movement petered out in the 70s. We've had notable exceptions, but artists, in general, have been constrained and restrained since the Reagan Revolution."

Thursday, November 27, 2008
Protest Art on America's Thanksgiving Day: K. H. Hodicke
(8 comments) In 2006, K.H. Hodicke was 68 years old, living and working in Berlin, Germany, and a Professor Emeritus at the Universitat der Kunste.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Humorous Protest Art on 11.24.008 , White Light Black Light
(3 comments) "Alice" is the moniker of a most liberated San Francisco Bay Area lady, whose politics are both spiritual and radical.

Monday, November 24, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 11.24.008 - IDELLE WEBER
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
THREE ANGRY POEMS FROM THE SIXTIES
(6 comments) .... - To be published posthumously

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
If Obama Falters-American Scenes from the Great Depression
(2 comments) Walker Evans is probably the most famous American photographer of all time, worldwide.

Sunday, November 16, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 11.16.008 -- VERNON FISHER
Vernon Fisher of Texas - art and awards.

Friday, November 14, 2008
Black American Protest, 2007-2008 -- Glen Ford and BAR
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 11.12.008 - ONCE MORE, MITCH EPSTEIN
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Monday, November 10, 2008
NOBUHO NAGASAWA - THE PROTEST ARTIST AS GENIUS
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
FACES OF THE CUBAN ENEMY - SEVEN PICTURES
(13 comments) A photo-essay of seven pictures taken by the author and his wife in 2001.

Friday, November 7, 2008
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1963 - A DEEP HISTORY UTTERLY UNKNOWN TO BARAK OBAMA?
(6 comments) Richard Avedon was not a radical. However, forty-five years ago he photographed persons and events which we can only hope reside in the consciousness of America's enigmatic President-Elect.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
It's All Luck
(8 comments) The subgroup of the human species referred to as "Western Civilization" has experienced three utterly disorienting events since the early part of the 19th century – the first involving Time, the second Space, and the third Man's Inhumanity to Man.

Monday, November 3, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 01.03.008 -- ONCE MORE, MARINA ABRAMOVIC
(3 comments) I have previously posted two sets of works by Marina Abramovic - performance artist, installationist, photographer, and protest artist extraordinaire. Two more of this remarkable artist's photographs follow.

Saturday, November 1, 2008
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY ON 11.01.008 - WALKER EVANS
(2 comments) In 1935, Walker Evans began working on 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' in collaboration with the writer James Agee. In 1938, Evans' first major exhibition, 'Walker Evans: American Photographs' opened at Museum Of Modern Art's temporary underground gallery in Rockefeller Center, New York. In 1968, Evans became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and in 1973, he received a Grant from the Mark Rothko Foundation

Thursday, October 30, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 10.30.008 - WORKS BY WANGECHI MUTU
(3 comments) Wangechi Mutu was born in Kenya in 1972.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Questions And Answers re Early Voting in San Antonio
Day-before-yesterday I exchanged OEN messages with a current resident of San Antonio Texas. I moved away from San Antonio - more or less permanently - in 1959. The answers indicate some of the reasons why.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY ON 10.28.008: FOUR BY MITCH EPSTEIN
(8 comments) Mitch Epstein was born in 1952, and has taught at Bard College – where Stephen Shore was Director of the photography program - in 1997, 1999, and 2001.

Monday, October 27, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 10.27.008 - TWO BY JUDY CHICAGO
Judy Chicago is an artist, feminist, author, educator and intellectual whose career spans four decades.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
PROTEST ART WORKS ON 10.24.008
Herein is a landscape structure, two paintings, and one photograph, by four exceptional artists. Viewing them recharges my protest batteries.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
ARTNET IS THE FINEST ART SITE ON THE INTERNET.
(2 comments) It has the most exhaustive selection of past and present artists – for viewing and for purchasing online – that I've ever seen. Additionally, many pictures at the site can be downloaded free by the public pursuant to the site's new "Artists Work Catalogues" program.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
A Book Review of "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness" by William Styron
(8 comments) At the age of sixty, near the peak of his heralded writing career, William Styron was struck down for the first time in his life by depression.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Protest Art Works on 10.21.008
(2 comments) Marina Abramovic is a performance artist, an installationist, and a photographer. According to Wikipedia, Abramovic's "...work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind."

Sunday, October 19, 2008
HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT
(14 comments) The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well: Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Saturday, October 18, 2008
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY ON 10.17.008
(6 comments) Michael Dweck was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and studied fine arts at the Pratt Institute.

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Iraq War Vets Plan Action to "Force the Issue" - Demand Face Time at Final Prez Debate
Members and supporters of Iraqi Vets Against the War (IVAW) are planning to crash the third and final Presidential debate on Oct. 15 at Hofstra University if they are not permitted to address a question to both Sen John McCain and Sen Barack Obama.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 10.14.008
This is not Grafitti.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 10.08.008 (Part 2)
(3 comments) Marina Abramovic is a performance artist, an installationist, and a photographer. According to Wikipedia, her "...work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind." If she were a painter, she would be a surrealist.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
THE LAST POEM
(6 comments) I wrote was written in 2007

Saturday, October 11, 2008
PROTEST ART ON 10.10.008
Benny Williams paints the kindest, gentle-ist protest art I've ever seen. He must have grown up in a very loving family.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
(5 comments) This is a review of the book Doctor Frigo by Eric Ambler.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
MORE PROTEST ART
(3 comments) Christa Dichgans is a German artist. Pictured here are three of her works dated 2003 and 2007.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
More Protest Art
(2 comments) Burhan Dogancay is one of Turkey's most famous artists. If you appreciate Protest Art, it's easy to see why.

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Estela Bravo's Documentary on Fidel Castro and Cuba
(4 comments) This is a true history, told with compelling historical photographs, an irresistible narrative, and numerous personal testaments.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
CONTEMPORARY PROTEST ART
(9 comments) A Nancy Spero Show.

Friday, October 3, 2008
TWO MORE CONTEMPORARY PROTEST PAINTINGS
(1 comments) More of the best of the best - but not Bansky.

Friday, October 3, 2008
MORE CONTEMPORARY PROGRESSIVE CRITICAL ART
(2 comments) Another Bansky, Li Shan, and Rostislav Lebedev [[UNTL1]]

Thursday, October 2, 2008
FIEDEL CASTRO: PART 1
This is the first in a series of ten videos. Watch, learn, and enjoy!

Monday, September 29, 2008
Progressive Art: Two More Paintings by Bansky
(10 comments) Yes, these two wonderful protest paintings by the contemporary artist Bansky belong in every Progressive's Collection

Friday, September 26, 2008
Bansky's Grafitti from New Orleans is Incredible.
(4 comments) See the article below.

Monday, September 22, 2008
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn, by Evan S. Connell (1984)
(1 comments) This book is a classic of modern non-fiction; and it was written a full decade before Non-Fiction's Time dawned in the early 1990's.

Friday, September 19, 2008
I Was Seeing a Psychiatrist
(1 comments) Smuggling cash into Cuba in 1998

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Family Values in 1972 Concord, California
(1 comments) A remembrance.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (Vintage Paperback, 2002), by Gore Vidal
(4 comments) In this wonderful collection of essays, Gore Vidal mentions Jean Paul Sartre and quotes him at some length.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Notes on Group
This is a modified version of a piece I wrote for the New Bridge (Substance Abuse) Treatment Program in Berkeley, California, in 2003.

Sunday, September 7, 2008
The Political Economy of Secrecy
Information is power. In a society organized according to principles of rationality and justice, information will be universally available and widely diffused, permeating the social order with power. In a society organized according to capitalist principles, information will be concentrated in the hands of a ruling class and its agents, augmenting and even displacing the force required to maintain capitalist inequities.

Friday, September 5, 2008
The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
This book recalls Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, because it's the best book about race relations in America since Ellison's masterpiece of fifty years ago.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
(3 comments) The major key of Greek Cities is a description of Greek architectural sites in southern Italy and Sicily in 1931, with narratives about the cities where the sites are found including the cities' mythologies and most famous citizens, visitors and political figures. The book's history, then, spans the period from about the eighth century B.C. to about the third century B.C.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, by Ignacio Ramonet (2008)
(3 comments) A book review.

Monday, August 18, 2008
Damaged Animals
(3 comments) Three vignettes about machoism in Texas

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh (2001)
(2 comments) A book review.

Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, by Chalmers Johnson (2003)
A book review. Sorrows of Empire.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
American Apartheid: Segregation and The Making of the Underclass, by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton (1998)
(1 comments) A book review.

Sunday, August 3, 2008
TWO TALES OF TENNIS FRIENDS AND BOOZE
(8 comments) Two true creative writing pieces.