Where is America? Kansas City blushes and squirms at all the attention. We hesitate to answer anything, in our modesty, but they have asked: what is America? And the collective answer, woven from artists both local and far-flung, is as varied as America demands. The whole of the Leedy-Volkos gallery, and spaces across the street, […]
Read More America: Now and HereIt doesn’t matter who you are until it matters a lot. It doesn’t matter who that guy is until he’s Barack Obama. I saw an exhibit of paintings of Shakespeare. Without Shakespeare, I don’t know that I would be three dimensional, or require food and water. I know a lot of people feel that way. […]
Read More WhodunnitNot to get too meta on you (but I think meta is very over, and I find it soothing to remain passe), I wrote a bit of criticism recently, and I’m going to criticize the whole notion of criticism. First: I don’t know that I believe in criticism. I don’t know if I believe in […]
Read More Critical Mass“Amadeus” features such haunting images as an old man dripping blood from a suicide attempt and a slumped corpse being thrown into a pauper’s grave and covered with lime. (I asked about that and learned what lime was.) The movie, frankly, scared me to death.
Read More Everything I Needed to Know About Life I Learned from the Oscar-Winning Film “Amadeus”
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