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Hey Jerry, some reasons why: Because I promised to do it. Because it will help them. Because it will make me stronger and smarter. Because it’s the right thing to do. Because it will make for a better future. Because I gotta earn a living somehow. Because it’s gotta get done, and somebody’s got to … Continue reading if it's not fun, why do it?
Don’t look for a good product. Seek a creative space. G-40: The Summit, in Crystal City, VA, through the end of March, exhibits a collective greater than its individual pieces, a creative space.
The Corkinhorn Gallery’s current exhibition, Painting Transversally, rides the frontiers of literary criticism and literary theory to raise profound questions for modern art. Painting Traversally violently interrogates modern arts’ failure to become post-modern. It complicates the relationship between art object and art consumer and implicates mass media and corporate America in the symbolic commercialization and … Continue reading transversal poetics confronts modern art
Imagine plucking a lute slowly and deliberately. The impulse could arise from emotions within yourself. But possibilities for inspiration other than the self also exist. Sukeyasu Shiba’s Gagaku Universe, performed this past Wednesday evening by the Reigakusha Gagaku Ensemble at the Freer Gallery, drew inspiration from within and from without, from relations with objects and … Continue reading Sukeyasu Shiba's expansive inspiration
One thousand, three hundred, and thirty years ago at Karbala in present-day Iraq, Iman Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the prophet of Islam, led a small, traveling group of 72 persons. This group included children, women, and elderly persons, as well as a small number of horsemen and infantrymen dedicated to Husayn. They confronted … Continue reading the spectators