We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality. It was not the British government that seized India at the end of the 18th century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by an unstable sociopath – Clive.
To fully understand the profound impact of the new picture framing styles advocated by four artists, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Frederic Edwin Church, Stanford White and Hermann Dudley Murphy, it is illuminating to view the cultural and aesthetic contexts from which their art and ideas emerged. The shift in aesthetic ideals in the mid-l9th century redefined art in all its forms, extending even to the conceptual intermediary, the picture frame.
i can see why nbc passed on the unbreakable kimmy schmidt, its actually funny and that goes against their core principles regarding comedies lately. apparently they produced this tina fey helmed sitcom, and then realizing it would make the rest of their awful comedies look terrible by comparison, they shipped it off to netflix which has already ordered a second season. its not quite the rapid fire joke machine that 30 rock was but it slowly builds over the course of the first season (ive seen seven of thirteen) into a consistently funny vehicle for ellie kemper (from the office) and her band of misfits.
if you smell french toast does that mean you are having a french stroke?
At around the same time, at the end of the 1970s, a small clutch of enterprising New York dealers, with European ties, determined to take back the art world. They put a shot across artists’ bows by exhibiting imported Italian and German neo-neo-Expressionist paintings, work that not only seemed to shriek FASCIST at a largely dumbstruck community of artists, but also it was huge and expensive… and composed of unique, hand-made objects, the very characteristics artists had determined to leave behind.
For SDB, a Victor Hugo octopus:
A 1948 flood washed away the WWII housing project Vanport—but its history still informs Portland's diversity.
live long and prosper.
two hours later i had a spoon!
the final nail in nbcs must see thursday comedy lineup gets pounded into the coffin tonight when parks and recreation ends its run. that it is being aired on tuesday at ten after a two hour episode of the biggest loser should tell you all you need to know. which is probably nothing.
Far be it from me to raise my hands in any moral horror over the ways and tastes of individuals […] But it is not all right with the art which they affect and cultivate. It is not all right when […] precious fairies get into positions of power and judge, buy, and exhibit American pictures on a base of nervous whim and under the sway of those overdelicate refinements of taste characteristic of their kind.(!)
