[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2020-10-07_Benny_Wills.mp3"][/audio]Benny Wills joins us today to share his conscious poetry and discuss his work spreading understanding, compassion and humanity through art.
Impromptu chat – Jimbob asked me to hop on his IG livestream as he fields questions from his audience on monism, dualism, pantheism, deism and Aristotle, the peripatetic axiom, basic empiricism and modern new atheists, David hume and Ayn Rand, natural law and Mark Passio, and much more!
-by Sam HusseiniI'm not out to compare myself to Jack Whitten, but on this day, my mind is on his 9-11 story and my own.I'm sure we all have lots of 9-11 stories, but I told one of mine for the first time in my new art show, "Invisibly Present/Visibly Absent" that just opened at Gallery Al-Quds at the Jerusalem Fund near the Kennedy Center.The piec
Always tell the truth. Always take the high road. Live each day like it could be your last. Drink it in. Be adventurous, be bold, but savor it. It goes fast.
— Ben, from the movie, Captain Fantastic.
Our friend Nancy Ohanian sent me the video up top to share. Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump is a visual protest of the Trump Regime, a kind of a document of our time featuring 147 artists with over 350 works brought together in a book by curator Karen Gutfreund. Artists around the United States are raging against Donald Trump in visual protest. Not Normal documents this artistic movement.
Every week we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article of refutation. We encourage reader-participation here, so if you come across something you feel should be included in the next edition either post a link below, or send us an e-mail. “Biden seized his moment” In …
Working with a stellar group of top shelf American artists, People for the American Way just launched a new program, "Enough of Trump," based on a simple concept: artists using art to convey what they have had “enough” of in the Trump era and to inspire the public to vote in November. The issues driving artists’ response to Trump include his inflaming of racial tensions, encouraging violent and deadly policing, and his failure to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Satire on Romantic Suicide (1839) by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto (1807–1845)
Introduction
The irony of this quote from the Dustin Hoffman movie, The Graduate, is not wasted on Duane Snider:
— One word: plastics.
That was Benjamin Braddock, just graduated from college, sitting in a swimming pool. Giving him advice on gaining the American dream, the neighbor’s statement says it all. Today? Hedge funds? Flipping houses? Coronavirus repossessions?
For Duane, that one word: artwork.
by Noah President Horseshit:They say (or should I say "people are saying") that periods of great stress cause an increase in great artistic works. Artists get a little extra inspired by what they see. They need only to choose how they are going to make an artistic statement.In the world of sculpture, artists use a lot of different mediums for their work. Some use clay. Some use marble. Some use various resins.
