This is a response to Tim’s recent post “At Face Value: Gaga, Surfaces & The Superficial.” I don’t really know anything about Ms. Gaga—she’s a singer, right?—so that I must pass over in silence. Instead, I want to address two distinctions that Tim points to: “style vs. content” and “surface vs. depth”—although I’ll admit upfront that [...]
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Artistic Surface | Artistic Depth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Gothic, Exercises in Style, Grant Wood, Hannah Weitemeier, International Klein Blue, Lady Gaga, Raymond Queneau, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Yves Klein on November 1, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter at the Gallows
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Gothic, Edward Mullany, If I Falter at the Gallows, Publishing Genius on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Edward’s book is now available. It’s stark, it’s funny, it’s sad–verse reflected by the book’s cover (also by Edward): American Gothic A woman with a gun, and a man with a gun, and a child with a gun, and a dog with a gun held between its two paws face the camera. One year [...]
Marilyn Monroe Comes to Chicago, 23 Skidoo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Gothic, Billy Wilder, Chicago, Cows on Parade, Curtis White, Daniel Burnham, Daniel Edwards, David Lynch, Diego Rivera, Edwin S. Porter, Flatiron Building, Forever Marilyn, Grant Wood, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Jeff Koons, kitsch, Lee Lawrie, Man at the Crossroads, Marilyn Monroe, Pioneer Court, Rockefeller Center, Seward Johnson, The Seven Year Itch, Twenty-three Skidoo, What Happened on 23rd Street New York City on July 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So now there’s a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe standing by Tribune Tower, on Michigan Ave: Describing it, the Chicago Tribune writes: Marilyn Monroe, as a 26-foot-tall statue in her famous subway-grate stance from “The Seven Year Itch” pose [sic]. Dubbed Forever Marilyn, the sculpture by New Jersey-based artist Seward Johnson will live in Pioneer [...]
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