Dec 8, 2016Aesthetic RegicideAbstract Expressionism (AE) remains guilty of aesthetic regicide by reducing the medium of Painting to formalistic determinism (imposing...
Dec 7, 2016Coup de Grace rather than BienvenuCoup de Grace rather than Bienvenu, or 'Action Painting overshadows its opposite'. Guilty by association,many works of genuine profundity...
Dec 5, 2016Ideological Affiliations or blind obedience or blind disobedience?Self-interest determined USSR in losing the 'Cold War'. The Soviets would have done their arithmetic - lose face for a generation who...
Dec 5, 2016The Time for licking our wounds is overWe have accepted our diminished role in global affairs, even our diminishing role in Europe (despite the Italians seeming to prefer the...