This week Emma Watson became the first actor to win a major gender-neutral acting award when she won MTV’s first award of the night at their 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards (see story at MTV.com). Watson claimed the trophy for “Best Actor in a Movie,” a peculiarly gender-neutral award that failed to recognize the…
“Everyday at a quarter past three I open up a can of tuna and set it on the table. I cut two thick slices of bread that has already begun to stale and put them on a white china plate already set out on the table, and slide it next to the can of tuna.…
Here’s part 3 of BBC Two’s The Story of Women and Art, a 3-part series detailing the history of women and art in the western world, starring Professor Amanda Vickery.
Here is part two of BBC Two’s The Story of Women and Art, a 3-part series detailing the history of women and art in the western world. It stars Prof. Amanda Vickery, historian, writer, radio and TV presenter, as well as professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London. Part 1 can…
BBC Two’s The Story of Women and Art, is a 3-part series detailing the history of women and art in the western world and male society’s attempt to eradicate them from history. Hopefully, this has been posted with permission and will persist, but there’s no way of knowing, and so it could disappear, as will…
Once upon a time, on a WOW Air flight from Reykjavik, Iceland to Baltimore, USA, a twenty-something man named Abraham turned to the totally doesn’t look forty-something woman in the next seat and said, “I wish I could go back to the eighties [or before] and experience what it was like to see the Star…
Mysterious (and now wealthy) famed street artist* Banksy has opened his latest exhibition piece, this one a permanent one. It’s a hotel, named, aptly, the Walled Off Hotel, built in secrecy over the past 14 months abutted against the perimeter wall built by the Israelis to fence off Palestinians. He’s used the wall before for…
You’ve undoubtedly read this title to this piece, so let’s cut right to the chase. Must we respect the wishes of dead artists? In my opinion, the answer is no, or more accurately, the annoying it depends. If an artist leaves explicit instructions as to the distribution and use of their work in the form…
Raw, Naked Art 