is good for the soul and brain. Left the Big Apple sick as a dog. Flew to Salt Lake on a fully loaded flight after getting up at 4 in the morning to get to Kennedy at 5 and get through security etc. for a 7:00 o'clock flight. Waited in the airport at S.L. bought a $12.50 spot of lunch--this for fruit yogurt and bottle of water! Captive buyers all of us. Worked on my Joan Snyder review. I really worthwhile show and not as uneven as in previous years. She has reached a new stage in her career and at 70 is mistress of her medium. Also, she has mellowed and the feminist rage and whine both have disapated and the result is a new sophistication and ease of application. No more cutting into the surface with a raw anger that in the past put viewers off. The colors are deeper, richer and more celebratory. So worth seeing and enjoying even when serious and sad. The fact that the New York centric school of Abstract Expressionism which inspired Snyder's work is long gone despite enjoying a momentary burp due to the MOMA's current show doesn't matter if one likes this sort of art.
Finally got on yet another jam-packed flight to San Jose where I was picked up by my oldest friend and we drove to Santa Cruz where I am posting from.
Meditating
Learning patience
Friday, October 29, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Natalie Barney
Why can't we have really exciting and smart women running for office against each other instead of tea bag party witches and bimbos dressed up in designer clothes. Natalie Barney said, Today, people talk a great deal about modernism, about movement without sufficiently realizing that an acquired speed cannot be movement---movement, as has been proved, being born of relativity that one can no longer be aware of.
The speed at which these candidates have acquired viability on the national scene is truly frightening and a function of the right-wing demagogue's money that has been pumped into these female puppets. What boggles the mind is that so many voters actually believe that these faux representatives are really going to stand up for their mom and pop interests.
Just remember gender really doesn't matter when it comes to stupidity and greed. All of the women who have lend themselves to these enterprises have become wealthy celebrities and been more than willing to selll what little soul they may have had to start with to the highest bidder. I can only hope when people go into the voting booths that they will have the common sense to realize that if they vote these freaks in the'll have only themselves to blame for voting against their own best interests. Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to go along for the ride no matter.
The speed at which these candidates have acquired viability on the national scene is truly frightening and a function of the right-wing demagogue's money that has been pumped into these female puppets. What boggles the mind is that so many voters actually believe that these faux representatives are really going to stand up for their mom and pop interests.
Just remember gender really doesn't matter when it comes to stupidity and greed. All of the women who have lend themselves to these enterprises have become wealthy celebrities and been more than willing to selll what little soul they may have had to start with to the highest bidder. I can only hope when people go into the voting booths that they will have the common sense to realize that if they vote these freaks in the'll have only themselves to blame for voting against their own best interests. Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to go along for the ride no matter.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Frida Kahlo Biography - Biography.com
Frida Kahlo Biography - Biography.com Will be reviewing a new Frida book for HG&LR so look for it in the stores that carry the magazine. If they don't request it. Believe me it is worth a look and it's not because I write for it. There are a lot of provocative articles in it on a wide range of subjects, GLBTQ, politics, culture and a host of other interesting issues as well as poetry and book reviews. Check out the link on my http://www.cassandralanger.com/ site.
This writer's life
Have not blogged here for a while. Been running around to shows and writing for other venues so no time to just chat. The Shifting the Gaze show at the Jewish Museum is worth a look as I may have mentioned. Writing it was another story. Down with a touch of something so a bit of a push to concentrate on. Finishing the new Grant Wood book by Tripp which is a whole new view of Wood and his homosexual side that is long overdue, Then there's writing up the Jocelyn Hobbie review for Entre Nous at KS Art over on 73 Leonard Street. A quick trip on A.C.E. or #1 and weirdly engaging. A challenge to write up but well worth the effort because of the eerie eroticism of these canvases. Looking forward to several new shows and films that I want to catch. Later on next month Ca. and catching up with the coast and what's happening there.
Aside from that getting loose ends together for the Brooks ms. for my agent and working on the book platform. A writer's life and loving it.
Aside from that getting loose ends together for the Brooks ms. for my agent and working on the book platform. A writer's life and loving it.
More art blog sites
Seems every time I put in a google alert there are more and more Romaine Brooks paintings which is a good thing. I am so pleased to see that Romaine's work is still generating interest 30 years after her death. Her hey day was the turn of the century and through the mid-thirties. Yet somehow her paintings and drawings continue to attract new audiences and viewers who are captivated by her images. The latest come from <a href='http://newsodrome.com/art_news'>Newsodrome - Art News</a> where an image of Cocteau by her was posted. Brooks painted him before he became famous as a priest of avant-garde culture. She later discarded him because of his use of drugs and his connection with Dolly Wilde, Oscar's niece. She detested Cocteau because he aided Dolly in her addictions and she considered him a faux artist because he was to her mind superficial and more interested in celebrity than real art. Sounds familiarly like our own culture these days where celebrity trumps almost any other kind of achievement. Paris Hilton, give me a break!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Romaine Brooks video
I wish I had the skills to do something like this but since I don't yet I am sharing this with all of you. If you are in NYC catch the show at the Guggenheim which showcases art between the wars. The conservative formulation very much describes Romaine Brooks' attitude and aspects of her art. Ken Silver did a splendid job with this exhibit.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Man or Fag or then some?
I suppose Tyler Clementi's brutal exposure and outting should come as no surprise in view of Carl Rove and all the others who use GLBTQ peoples in their ruthless climb to power in a society that sanctions homophobia and hate. Nonetheless, I am sad and disgusted and it brings up all the reasons it is not o.k. and not going to be o.k. until we as a society decide to REALLY, REALLY commit ourselves to doing something concrete about the inequities that are so blatant.
Manhood for Fags ( For Tyler and endless others: Oct 2, 2010)
Desire takes center stage
Steamy encounters
A boy’s own story
That is splashed
All over the internet
Reducing him to his explorations
His emerging sexuality
For a lark
Sanctioned by society
The state he lives in
All for a depraved thrill
Manhood for fags
Renouncing his life
he falls victim
As the heartbreaking
Details unfold
Society’s dirty laundry
Flapping in the wind
Like Tyler
A hazardous sadness
Hitting the enveloping waters
Under the George Washington bridge
Igniting them with the last
Of his luminous possibilities
The list is endless. As I complete my Grant Wood review, start on Frida and turn to Shifting the Gaze my mind rolls over the endless role call of victims. From the dead to the walking wounded and I weep. Nothing short of tears tells the heartbreaking story of a society so lacking in compassion, decency and the commitment to do the right thing by GLBTQs, to do the right thing about racism, reforming immigration, creating an even playing field for women as this long narrative of America's failure to live up to the promise of the founders. Isn't it time we really started to make it right!!!!
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