Art and Politics Now

Criticism must think of itself as . . . opposed to every form of tyranny, domination and abuse. Its social goals are non-coercive knowledge produced in the interest of human freedom. Edward Said The World The Text and the Critic 1983

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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AMAZING experience. We went to 8 plays in 5 days. They have three theaters running with two shows a day each. The actors were often in two d...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Violence Against Women, Part II

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This spring in Philadelphia there was an extraordinary exhibition " Ni Una Mas/ Not One More/The Juarez Murders ". It was held at ...

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Violence Against Women

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Lately there have been several different works that call attention to violence against women in our contemporary world. I will mention them ...

Friday, July 23, 2010

Art Sparks Occidental Square Summer 2010

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My office is on Occidental Square, and so I am familiar with all the regular people who like to spend the day there. They sit on benches pur...

Detained

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Here in the Northwest we still have a lot of support for art from the public sphere, King County 4Culture , the City of Seattle Mayor's ...

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Shirin Neshat Women without Men

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I just saw Shirin Neshat's first feature length film, Women without Men , 2009. It has won a lot of awards, at the Sundance Film Festiva...

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Provence then and now

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In our trip to France, we visited St. Remy (the asylum where Van Gogh painted some extraordinary artworks), this is the view out of his wi...

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