Day at the Newseum: Madeline Albright Meets J. Edgar Hoover
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Culture | Leave a Comment
A bit much, I think, meeting J. Edgar Hoover and Madeline Albright on the same day. OK, Hoover was quite dead, the late FBI boss a statue bending over assertively, as if ready to pounce, in the the main foyer of the Newseum in Washington DC, but the former Secretary of State/UN Ambassador looked quite [...]
Read More..>>Art in Carmel: The Not-So-Good, The Bad and the Badder
Posted on September 1, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture | Leave a Comment
Moseying ’round Carmel, California Saturday, I wondered how its tourist trap economy could survive when one of its major exports is cheese-ball art. There are often three or four stores selling similar product in a single block. But then, it doesn’t take too many sales to make the monthly nut. The Golden Gate Bridge picture [...]
Read More..>>What Would Hopper Paint?
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under Culture | 1 Comment
I wondered what American Realist painter Edward Hopper would paint if he were alive today. One possibility I came up with after horsing around with Photoshop:
Edward Hopper and Company: The American Landscape
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | 1 Comment
Too often we look at cultural and physical landscapes of places we visit as tourist brochures: America as the massive architecture of New York City and Chicago, quaint New England villages, the Bridge and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of cliché America is a propaganda film [...]
Read More..>>Izzy Stone and Social Media
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Culture, Tech & Science | 1 Comment
One of my journalism heroes was I. F. Stone. “Izzy” was perhaps 1953’s premiere blogger, publishing his own muckraking newspaper from then until the early 70s, campaigning against McCarthyism and later exposing the fallacy of Lyndon Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the US excuse for plunging into the Vietnam War. Here is an excerpt from [...]
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