People don’t get erotic art. To be clear, what I am calling erotic art is (capital A) Art first, versus mere pornography. That doesn’t mean erotic art is never pornographic, nor pornography artistic. Rather, pornography, […]
Month: September 2018
(Feature) Liberalism’s Last Stand
William Gibson famously observed, a couple decades ago now, that the future had arrived, it just wasn’t evenly distributed. The fact that he had to say that and that people still find it insightful suggests […]
Painting by Vlada Mirkovic, “The Man who Lived His Dreams”
(Music) Pavane for a Dead Princess
A pavane is a slow, stately dance, two beats to the measure, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and performed in elaborate clothing, or a piece of music written for the same. “The original […]
(Feature) Nations of experience
No matter how long I make a study of it, I cannot stop marveling at the slippery imprecision of English. It is not the most poetic language, but it is the most poetical in that […]
(Art) The head-warping fantasy of Don Ivan Punchatz
Don Ivan Punchatz was a painter and illustrator famous in the latter half of the 20th century for his science fiction and fantasy book covers for Ace, Warner, Berkley, and Dell. He also made covers for […]
(Curiosity) On the cult of decline
“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation. For the history of every individual, every social order, indeed of the whole world, does not describe an ever-widening, more and more wonderful arc, […]
(Art) The mad fanciful fairy tales of Andrej Dugin and Olga Dugina
Husband-and-wife team Andrej Dugin and Olga Dugina combine the style of classic Russian illustration with the grotesque fantasies of Bosch and Bruegel in a series of children’s books, including a collaboration with Madonna. Their colorful, […]
(Art) 17 Portrayals of Women
Click for slideshow. Margaret Bowland, “White Fives” Harumi Hironaka Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, self portrait of the artist mugshot Tom Bagshaw, “Tomoe Gozen – Onna-bugeisha” Sarah Bishop David Uzochukwu Dino Valls, “PROSCAENIA” Denise […]
