The erotic was taboo. Though Marilyn Monroe was baring all, sex was hidden, a pleasure rarely discussed in polite 1950s company. All Shook Up Elvis was suggestively shaking, but talk was never about frolicking in the bedroom. Postwar America was…
IMAGINATION TAKES FLIGHT
It’s a unique form of travel. One from a land of innocence and carefree joys to a subterranean haunt of bafflement and foreboding. Such an exploration demands an insightful Eye, an acute sensitivity, for a Birthday Party (2007) can be…
The Other Side By Eily Vong
Everything turns blurry. Conflicts and contradictions abound. Time passes and becomes hazy in your mind. This is the darkness that engulfs, makes life bewildering, for amid the chaotic profusion of images, there are no truths. No fixed landmarks to guide…
Ascending Staircases to Heaven
Stripping away all clutter and the superfluous, the Roaming Photographer ignores all grayness around him, and follows Frank Stella’s dictum. “What You See is What You See.”Such simple purity, removing all emotion and only being engaged with geometric shapes, could…
A New York State of Mind
Our turbulent present has brought dissolution and collapse. Traditions are fading. The workplace has dramatically changed. Privacy issues are manifest. Sexual orientations are smashing old taboos. But where do we find security? We need some measure of stability, structures that…
Future of Visual Arts – A New Enlightenment
“The spirit of the age affects all the arts; and the minds of men, being once roused from their lethargy, and put into a fermentation, turn themselves on all sides, and carry improvements into every art and science”. -David Hume,…
Postcards Sent from New York, Paris…..
Parisian streets, their histories, mysteries, and seductions are alive in the photography of Zimbabwe-born Graham Kuhn. Gifted at capturing the energy and secret stories of city neighborhoods, this Vogue and Vanity Fair freelance photographer also knows how to animate magazines…
TIME MACHINES
One of life’s most coveted treasures, the Paul Newman Daytona is the sexiest of trophies. A grand object of desire, it whips men into a frenzy of spending. At auctions and on questionable Internet sites their ardor knows no bounds.…
The Exquisite Corpse
Plunging deep into their psyches to create absurd stories, André Breton, Man Ray and other Surrealists were enchanted by the game, the drawings that reflected “the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.” It was a collegial fun fest, combining…
The Menace in our Midst
The mighty Parthenon. Awe-inspiring pyramids hugging the Nile. Stonehenge and its mysteries. These enduring symbols stir our imagination. They “live” and ennoble us.“Dumpster Dumping,” in the adept hands of Kim Curtis, has led to a vastly-different sort of monument, an…