December 9, 2011
Just over a year ago I wrote In Memoriam: Rozsika Parker, Feminist Art Historian and activist to mark the death of the noted British feminist art historian and psychotherapist Rozsika Parker (December 27, 1945-November 5, 2010). A conference in honor of her work was held in London December 10, CELEBRATING ROZSIKA PARKER 1945 – 2010, [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged feminism, feminist art, Feminist art history, Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses, Rozsika Parker, The Feminist Art Project
November 15, 2011
When the NYPD raided the Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park this morning, they tossed the 5,554 books that were assembled from donations into The People’s Library, an extemporaneous institution with a proper librarian and its own website, into dumpsters. According to the story as reported this morning on mediabistro.com: “According to the city’s [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Leo Steinberg, Occupy Wall Street, The People's Library
October 12, 2011
This is a slightly expanded version of a review that appeared on The Huffington Post on October 12th. Every once in a while events in the art world and events in the “real” world mesh in a particularly fortuitous way. This is the case of the conjunction of Living as Form–an art exhibit taking place [...]
Posted in art, film, General | Tagged Creative Time, La Commune, Living as Form, Nato Thompson, Occupy Wall Street, Peter Watkins, Politics, Superflex
September 18, 2011
Well, I get up this morning, flip to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and, *##*!!!, Maureen Dowd mentions the plot of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in “Eggheads and Blockheads?,” her discussion of the Republican Party’s embrace of stupidity, in the persons of Texas Governor Rick Perry, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, et [...]
Posted in art, film, General | Tagged Barak Obama, James Stewart, John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen Dowd, Montgomery Clift, Red River, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Westerns
![World Trade Center, view south from teh corner of Lispenard and Chruch STreet, September 11, 2001, 9:01 (EDT) [approximate time based on chronologies of the day]](http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Schor-WTC-1-150x150.jpg)
September 10, 2011
I have often wondered how many people in the metropolitan area saw some part of the events of September 11 in New York City with their own eyes, from streets and buildings in Manhattan, from Brooklyn, from New Jersey. Was it a million of us? Was it more? I have never seen speculation on the [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Jerry Bruckheimer, September 11, The Tribute in Light, The World Trade Center
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