USA to Legalize Art Theft
The current May 17, 2008 U. S. Senate version of the “Orphan Works” legislation is a nightmare for artists.
Every country in the world currently recognizes an artist’s rights to their own work, with or without a formal copyright; all you need to do in the case of a dispute is prove that you did it first.
Leave it to the Legislative Branch of the USA Federal Government to attempt to pass a…
What Love Is
Bertrand Russell described love as a condition of ‘absolute value’, as opposed to ‘relative value’.
Love recognizes a state of truth distinct from, and opposite to, the idea that there is a difference between the subject and the object. It is sometimes called ‘pantheism’.
Love is reality itself, of which we incorrectly perceive ourselves as …
The City Without Art
Let’s try to imagine the City Without Art.
At work,You can turn on the radio, but there’s no music. Music doesn’t exist. Just talk: news, opinion, advertising, propaganda…
At the end of your working day, you can’t go to the theatre, or the opera, or a concert, or the movies; they don’t exist. You can’t go home and get comfortable with a good book; there are no novels, no short stories, ...
The Question of Intentionality, an Investigation
*The whole notion of intent is one that fascinates me almost to the point of obsession; when looking at or making artwork I always wonder, what is the artist’s intent for this thing that they are making?; what effect, exactly, is it supposed by the artist to have on others?... what effect does making it have on the artist?... and so on.
This question of intentionality is strangely absent fro…