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art "...To a surprising extent, the public tends to agree on what it likes to see in a work of art. Americans generally tend to prefer, for instance, traditional styles over more modern designs; they also express a strong preference for paintings that depict landscapes or similar outdoor scenes. In addition, most Americans tend to favor artists known for a realistic style over those whose artworks are more abstract or modernistic..." |
Today's Rant:
Greetings:
In the men's room where I work, the employer has provided a chalkboard.
Today, someone wrote, 'I like Osama." Yesterday, I read above the
urinal, "Bush did it." The employees and the customers at my
workplace could never constitute a radical cell -- everyone gripes, no
one threatens -- should I take these anonymous remarks as a positive sign
for democracy?
What raindrop caused the river to finally reach the sea? A pure system of propaganda accommodates the psychological person and the linguistic person; a mixture of systems is experienced as a deception; domesticity is sustained by repetition of an inflexible message; in picking up one and discarding another, mister Bush violates the arrangements that consolidate 'the enemy.'
Reactionaries are often transformed through
contact with the larger human community: consider Bill Clinton, Jimmy
Carter, or even Richard Nixon: but the opposite has occurred with George
(?) Bush: he seems to have discovered in his travels that Americans are
cursed by their historical interests: the globe is awash with the victims
of applied corporate sciences: Bush-think broadens only in features of
control: let us regulate and codify the means of dissent; optimal homogeneity
marks the
beginning and the end of America.
If we grant that a U.S. president must exterminate segments of the weaker portions of the human race, we insist that the reason remain consistent: our sleep is troubled by theories; we desire, in the name of conscience, undeniable bogeymen: but the present foreign enterprise displays no aesthetic and no ethic; the administration appears guided by sudden inspiration: now George proposes one huge enemy: Caligula has demanded the head of all his opponents in a single blow.
In the arena of the most fierce future conflicts -- of class, of health, of education -- you and I already find ourselves in the same position as the citizens of any third world country: feigning discontent: visualize the future as you scribble today, knowing that you are not going to say what you will finally say.
-- billy cope
spaces
Casa Neverlandia - a cool personal home in Austin
Galleries
2040
Gallery - Austin
Art on Fifth - Austin
Gallery
Lombardi - Austin
Women
and Their Work - Austin
In
The Galleries - Austin (list of galleries)
Kimble
Art Museum - Fort Worth
The Orange Show - Houston - organizes the Art
Car Parade in Houston, every year in late April.
Angstrom
Gallery - San Antonio
Blue
Star - San Antonio
Sala
Diaz - San Antonio
Organizations
Austin
Net.org
Glasstire.com -
News on art in Texas
Other
List of links to Austin artists, galleries, supply stores and more...
