Parlant a l'Ether

Due to illness, user error, and confusion, I missed the last few days of blogging. But that’s okay – it’s not like this was the only time in my life that I was going blog or write about art. Here are some of the thoughts that I had posted (and lost) in the last few …

Not literature. Not poetry. Not short stories. Not novels. BOOKS. Book-making, printing, whatever you call it; the manufacture of a BOOK that feels right in your hand, whether you’re reading a mass market paperback or a cloth-bound hardcover, that is Art. I am on record as loving mass market paperbacks. I love them because they …

There is some really horrible television programming. A lot of it is regurgitated ideas, repackaged for different advertising demographics. But some of it is Art. Usually (these days anyway) it’s on pay-cable, it has multi-season story arcs, an ensemble cast, and it has to be high concept. Or it can be campy, self-referential, slick, and …

According to a lot of people, Fashion is Art. Of course it is! I even think a graphic t-shirt can be Art! Jewelry, scarves, handbags, shoes, hats, make-up, hair… together or individually can be works of Art. The real question should be “Why can’t sweat pants be Art?”