Oscar’s Ideal
It is fortunate for us, however, that Nature is so imperfect, as otherwise we should have no art at all — Oscar Wilde How true, how true — but alas, art is, truly, less perfect than nature. When are we going to learn that we can imagine the ideal, butContinue Reading
Art and Propaganda
Generally it is the role of art to expose the degradations and depravities of whatever culture in which it might be created. Really, it is a misnomer to produce “art” that champions any culture, no matter how minor or exploited – that role is for obsequious sycophants and toadies, notContinue Reading
The Old Songs
It is not a novel thought, I know – the charm of the old, sweet love songs, is well known, and it is easily dismissed as mere nostalgia – but in the context of today’s highly addictive landscape, it resonates in important ways. It occurred to me that the oldContinue Reading