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Beauty
by William Clark
“Here were two men discussing “beauty”
seriously and with dignity as if they and the topic
were as normal as normal topics of discussion
between men such as soybean prices or why
the commodities market was a sucker’s game…
- B. H. Fairchild, Beauty
As far as I can remember, I only heard the word beauty spoken a handful of times duri More...
Die for Art; Art To Die For
by Edward Goldman | ArtTalk
There are much better exhibitions I have seen in the past and somehow quickly forgot. But here's one, which I saw over the weekend at the Hammer Museum, that I cannot stop thinking about even though some of the artworks there, to put it politely, are not very good.
So let's start with the difficult-to-pronounce, exotic name of the artist, Alin More...
Sports Expendables
by Jerry Kavanagh
In The Mikado, the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko compiles his little list of “society offenders” who, if executed, “would not be missed.” Among other expendables, he notes, “There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs [and] all people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs.” I once asked several notable sports figur More...
The Streetsweeper | Grand Avenue
by Ron Koertge
The Streetsweeper goes by at 1:00 a.m. two nights of the week. I can hear the feather whoosh of his machine and see one red light. I believe that the streetsweeper lives alone, sleeping through the cold days, waking clear-eyed and deft as the sun goes down. I believe that he works steadily without a portable radio or a reading light More...
