The art world today, inundated with pretentious dilettantes struggling
to make an effort to appear lofty and classy before society, sometimes
forgets one of the most important concepts of creating art itself.
That is to say, the concept of creating art for the sake of releasing
emotion or sending a message sometimes becomes lost in an illusion
that people are […]

Same Anderson’s voice in his book review donned a coat of comedy as well as a “chillaxed,” laid back persona. He poked fun at the author’s image on the cover, and went into detail about how the shortcuts in life were everywhere, and described how he was wily enough to find and use them during […]

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In a review by Edmund White of the memoir About my Life and the Kept Woman, a Mexican-American named John Rechy struggles to fit in with society when he discovers once and for all that he is homosexual. The period of gay liberation would occur far after the author’s prime, that is […]

In Riboud’s “Camera-Shy” series, this photo was taken in Red Square in 1957. The photo is curious, because it uses edge activation. The subject is close to the camera, and is slightly blurred, giving it the essence of being rushed-in at and invaded. The subjects of the photo are placed off-centre as well, giving it […]

The two criticisms of “The Fog of War” that I had chosen to read were by Mick LaSalle and Michael Wilmington. Both explain how the movie did an excellent job of putting into perspective the reasoning for why a man—brilliant in mind though viewed as ruthless devil in the media—decided to do what he did. […]

The two criticisms of “The Fog of War” that I had chosen to read were by Mick LaSalle and Michael Wilmington. Both explain how the movie did an excellent job of putting into perspective the reasoning for why a man—brilliant in mind though viewed as ruthless devil in the media—decided to do what he did. […]

In his essay, Canaday compares the portraits of two families: the Belleli family, and the Peale family. In his analysis of the Peal family, he mentions the placements of the subjects. He criticizes how the people, because they were all painted separately at different days over the period of many years, did not look as […]

Photos make the actions of the past timeless. It is a medium in which one could gaze into what has happened and interpret for oneself instead of having the story “tainted” per se by another person if that other person told one what happened orally. What makes this set of photos intriguing is the ugliness […]

Furiously tapping her pencil away on the top of her desk, bouncing her leg, checking the clock every thirty seconds…Lucretia was bored as ever in her second period class. After being accepted into UW, she just could not find the motivation to work diligently anymore. Day in and day out of the first three years […]