As I was contemplating some (recently unearthed) issues that have haunted me over the years, it occurred to me that I have a strong desire to step back and address some things that might sound like old issues, but have not been resolved to the satisfaction of either me, or some other person(s) within my
Friends and teachers, I have heard more than once, and of late one may hear it more often, that the priests, and above all the village priests, are complaining on all sides of their miserable income and their humiliating lot. They plainly state, even in print — I’ve read it myself — that they are
“I baste the chicken with one handand outline the paper with the other. “(Mona Lisa Smile)
Last night I watched the short film “la chatte andalouse” (or “The Female Cat from the South of Spain”) (part of a collection of short films called “Wholphin: Issue 4”). It is a charming story of a nun who finds herself completing an installation for an eccentric artist on her death bed, and her consequent
Mt 20 Marriage at the Resurrection 23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. 25Now there were seven brothers among us.
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In an effort to form an understanding of the controversial work “Piss Christ” (1987) by Andreas Serano – a photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine, a hot topic for most of my life – I decided I needed to go to the source rather than reading cometary by spectators, or guessing at
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pictured here:Super Star by Liza Lou, and works by Charles Ray in back ground and foreground. ok, so I might be the worst museum patron of all time – only visiting during free hours or pay-what-you-will times, taking snapshots on my camera phone, and coping-a-feel without white gloves on… but, what can I say? I
My brother and I (pictured above) recently had an appointment with Miss Jennifer Mills of the Jennifer Mills Foundation and the Jennifer Mills News of which I have mentioned on this blog from time to time… Anyway, Mills is in grad school for performance art in Chi-town and came out to hold appointments to make