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ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA

Art Dealer Doug Christmas Arrested on Federal Charges Alleging He Embezzled Funds from Miracle Mile Art Gallery’s Bankruptcy Estate; accusing him of embezzling more than $260,000

Complications for the Benin Bronzes: Nigeria dispute jeopardises return of artefacts; The King and the Benin Royal Museum Want Them!

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Louvre Calls in Lawyers Over Pornhub’s Hardcore Re-Enactments

“Show Me the Nudes” Website and App

Louvre Calls in Lawyers Over Pornhub’s Hardcore Re-Enactments; High-brow museums are furious that the most popular pornographic streaming service is sexually exploiting classic masterpieces without permission

Update! The Louvre and Uffizi Are Suing Pornhub for Turning Works by Titian and Courbet Into Hardcore Pornography

Pornhub Presents Classic Nudes with Cicciolina

Stromberg: Nearly 80 Galleries in LA Organize a City-Wide Weekend Celebration

DOUG AITKEN

‘My Interest Is Seeing Art Occupy New Spaces’: Doug Aitken on His First Foray Into Fashion, an Installation for Saint Laurent

Doug Aitken "Green Lens" and Saint Laurent - Men's Spring Summer 2022

Doug Aitken "Green Lens", a site-specific installation, Isola Della Certosa, Venice, Italy; It's Sinking!

A Cosmos of Southern Black Expression: “The Dirty South” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Podcast presented by William Powhida and Paddy Johnson: Explain Me with curator, writer, and former museum director Laura Raicovich: Art and Museums in An Age of Protest

Frank, Greek, and Gay: Modernist Painter Yannis Tsarouchis Is Finally Getting His Due

Tomàs Saraceno's performance at Maison Ruinart

GO, VAN GOGH!

The Harvest: painted in a single summer's day, here's why this is Van Gogh’s finest landscape; Vincent needed to recover from his intensive work with a stiff drink and his beloved pipe

Van Gogh’s self-portraits: what do they really reveal? An exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery will be the most comprehensive ever held of Vincent's paintings of himself

Exclusive: Rescued from an attic, lost Van Gogh landscape surfaces in Japan—here it is in colour; Vincent's watercolour of a Dutch meadow with cows was exhibited once, in 1903

Paintings, projections, VR Starry Nights: Can we ever know van Gogh?

*COUGH*

Hunter Biden will reportedly meet with prospective buyers of his art; Vetted Guest List

Report: Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Sued for Fraud and Breach of Contract

Podcast: The Hunter Biden Controversy, Explained

Podcast: Art Dirt: What’s Going On With Hunter Biden’s Art?

A Conspiracy Theorist (sic) Who Vandalized Hunter Biden’s New York Gallery Has Been Arrested; The vandal tried to write “Daddy is a war criminal" on the wall

Ben Davis: Hey Hunter Biden, Here’s a Radically Simple Solution for All Your Art Woes: Don’t Sell Your Work; If Hunter Biden wants his art to be received outside a political black box, his best bet is not to sell it

Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Has Reportedly Made an Agreement With the White House to Keep His Sales Top Secret; The goal is to prevent bad actors from purchasing Biden's art as a way to curry favor with the White House; “The [White House] has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer,” Shaub continued. “We’re supposed to trust a merchant in an industry that’s fertile ground for money laundering."

Georges Bergès – The New Art World Visionary of SoHo

Five-Minute Tours: Robert Ruello at Inman Gallery, Houston

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic Jerry Saltz Turned Down a $250,000 Salary to Write for Substack Because He Needs Editors; What does a direct-to-consumer product like Substack mean for the future of journalism?

ARTIST’S HEALTH

Brilliant Advice from a SuperModel: Christie Brinkley: The non-negotiable daily habit that gives her energy and focus

Why Doctors Think Art Can Help Cure You; With art lessons and trips to museums on prescription, the links between culture and health are being reconsidered

What Art Can Tell Us About Health and Illness; Edna Bonhomme interviews curator and editor Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz about the ways in which art can help us understand health, illness and mortality

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Tania Bruguera Joins the Growing Ranks of Dissident Artists Being Detained During the Anti-Communist Protests in Cuba; Bruguera was taken from her home this week. Hamlet Lavastida and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara remain in prison

In Their Own Words, This Is What It's Actually Like for Black and Brown People in Cuba; "They're arresting people at their homes."

A Complete Breakdown of the J.K. Rowling Transgender-Comments Controversy

Four Members of the Pussy Riot Art Collective Have Been Jailed by Russian Officials

Art Collective Forensic Architecture Has Teamed Up With Edward Snowden to Investigate a Shadowy Global Spyware Company; The collective believes that "digital violence" is the most important unexamined human rights violation of our time

A Guide To Critical Race Theory

What Happened To You? The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism

Sasha Stone, "The Thinking Democrat": How One Introvert Blew the Lid off the Empire
Is the only thing we fear truth itself?

A PTA Purge of Asians; America’s top public high school shows us what discrimination looks like today; "that effort is largely led by paternalistic White liberals who are determined to ‘help’ minority victims at any cost—I see it for what it is: a tacit admission that they don’t think Black and Hispanic students have what it takes to compete on merit.”

Critical Race Theory Is a Complex — Oh, Who Are We Kidding? A series of increasingly hilarious defenses!

Yoshitomo Nara and His Auction Market

How Artist Yoshitomo Nara’s Return to Japan After 12 Years Abroad Reshaped His Style—and Supercharged His Soaring Market

How Andy Warhol’s Chrysanthemum Prints Celebrated Japanese Culture; Warhol's "Kiku" series consisted of 300 screenprint portfolios of the flower

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Wangechi Mutu’s Sly and Imposing Takeover of a San Francisco Museum

Documentarian Sophie Chahinian Is Making a Film About Robert Longo and Spending Time by the Pool

GOOD GIGS

How the Fashion House Valentino Took Inspiration From Jamie Nares’s Paintings for Its Couture Show in Venice; The artist contributed the finale look to the fashion house's couture runway show

Surprising and fragrant legacy of artist Niki de Saint Phalle and La Prairie

Two Major U.S. Foundations Are Giving $5 Million to Latinx Artists, Who Have Long Lacked Dedicated Support; Will give 75 artists $50,000 each

Doug Aitken creates reflective artwork for Saint Laurent in Venice

LACMA Announces New Art + Technology Lab Grant Winners

STAGE STRUCK

Cheng: Sugar Houses at REDCAT, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide

“The Early Harold Pinter play that Speaks Volume About our Current Moment” by Charles McNulty

‘Grace,’ Musical About Gentrification, Food and Family, Preparing For Worldwide Debut With Industry Readings

Review: Seize the King Looks at Richard III as a Model for Tyrants Past and Present; "When he comes back will you be ready?"

Her Pole Performance Has Mesmerized Audiences, Onlookers, and Cynthia Nixon
Meet Donna Carnow, the breakout star of Seven Deadly Sins

A Choreographed Return to Theaters; Dance is back in theaters

Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else; The Apple TV+ series both mocks and embraces the glories of classic musicals like “Brigadoon,” “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel”

BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN, THE INSTAGRAM LAUGH SENSATION!

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

The Earth Is Humming—Here's What It Means; Ceaseless rumble is nothing new, but observing it from the ocean floor could help future research

These Moths Are So Gorgeous They ‘Put Butterflies to Shame'–Pictures!

A rainbow ending in an erupting volcano? What caused phenomenon in Hawaii park?

Planetary heartbeat? Earth has a geologic ‘pulse’ every 27.5 million years

Sharks that glow in the dark? Scientists discover luminous deep-sea predators off New Zealand

ART NOIR

Stolen from the waiting room of an Oahu dentist’s office in 1972; After a half century of searching, Hawaii family is reunited with stolen Margaret Keane ‘Big Eyes’ painting

Manhattan District Attorney Returns 27 Looted Artifacts to Cambodia

A British Art Restorer Has Been Arrested for His Role in a $143 Million Asian Antiquities Smuggling Ring; Neil Perry Smith is the second person to be arraigned in the case

A DC Artist Alleges the Line Hotel Stole His Work to Brand a New Restaurant; The trendy hotel insists it's original art

This Superstar Amateur Metal Detectorist Just Found Her Second Cache of Viking Coins on the Isle of Man in Less Than a Year; Kath Giles previously unearthed 1,000-year-old buried Viking jewelry on Isle of Man last December

Wealth moving around the art world: What the US government sanctions of prominent Bulgarian art collector Vassil Bojkov mean for the art market; Oligarch is blacklisted as countries ramp up regulation and authorities move yet another step closer to the art world

The Louvre’s Art Sleuth Is on the Hunt for Looted Paintings; Emmanuelle Polack is the face of the French museum’s efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation

Less Than a Month After the Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight

The FBI Has Busted a Man for Hawking Fake Basquiats After Catching Him Red-Handed During a WhatsApp Sting; The works were offered to two New York auction houses

SURF

Everything You Need to Know About Surfing in the Olympics

"Never Meant For Stillness" featuring Filipe Toledo: A Film by Bruno Baroni & Victor Rodrigues; Narrated by Rich Henrich

Joe Quigg, Father of the Modern Surfboard, Has Passed Away

Quite Possibly the Greatest Wedge Video Ever

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Britney Spears, Allegory of the 20th Century? How the Misunderstood Pop Star Has Inspired Visual Artists as an Avatar of the Early Aughts

ART NOIR

Margaret Keane stolen from the waiting room of an Oahu dentist’s office in 1972--Recovered!

More Art Noir

How Joseph E. Yoakum, an Enigmatic Former Circus Hand and Untrained Artist, Found Drawing in His 70s—and the 'Hairy Who' as Admirers

‘We Want Art With All Its Contradictions’: Massimiliano Gioni on How Curators Can Help Keep Radical Art Alive

Tribute to L.A. Sculptor Kenzi Shiokava (1938-2021)

Christo wrap makeover begins on Paris's Arc de Triomphe

Exploring New Sides to Performance Art: “Responding to Site” on Marilyn Arsem

NFT: THE BRANDING MARKET'S BEST FRIEND

With $2.4 Billion in Transactions, NFT Market Defies Expectations in Second Quarter of 2021

How Global Brands Like TikTok And Anheuser-Busch Are Approaching The Metaverse And NFTs

Stella Artois Gallops Into The Metaverse With Horse Racing NFTs

NFTs may outlast physical art galleries, says famed British artist Damien Hirst

The Whitworth gallery in Manchester mints a William Blake NFT in aid of community causes

NFT: Banksy’s artwork up for auction, without his knowledge; Part of a treasure hunt launched in 2005 by the artist in Palestinian territory

Tom Brady’s NFT platform Autograph partners with Lionsgate, DraftKings

Jerry Garcia Family to release NFT collection of artworks created by the music legend

NFTs To Make Broadway Debut: Seaview Teams With Nifty’s, Playbill & Sony Music Masterworks For New Collectibles Venture

How to create your own NFT in 5 simple steps

'First digital NFT art home installation' is Realtor's Sales Pitch for Sunset Strip Mansion

A clear explanation of NFTs and their potential impact on sports

Get an Exclusive Look at the Totally Wacky NFTs Urs Fischer Is About to Sell Through Pace (And Do Your Best to Make Sense of Them)

"Cryptozoo" Official Trailer

Method Architecture, Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co. create digital NFT asset

More in our comprehensive NFT Guide

Brooklyn Rail: Interview with Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman Gallery

10 Contemporary Artists Taking Fresh Approaches to Flowers

Picture perfect: Ellsworth Kelly’s rarely seen postcard collages on view in Saratoga

Jeffrey Steele, pioneer of Op Art, 1931-2021

Renowned artist Kenny Scharf unveils towering mural on LA’s Skid Row; Colorful 66-foot tall mural unveiled at the Los Angeles Mission was donated and painted by the renowned artist Kenny Scharf

‘In the Studio, You Have Your Own Folklore’: Artist Edgar Sarin on the Stories Artists Tell Themselves

This and That: Julie Speed, Vija Celmins & Jorge Alegría

Break + Bleed Opens at San José Museum of Art

Anne Austin Pearce 'Sommerset' at AMcE Creative Arts, Seattle

Sculptor Eva LeWitt’s Colorful Outdoor Installation in Massachusetts Celebrates the Power of Observing Art in Nature—See Images Here

Chuck Kelton and Joseph Minek ‘Chemistry and Light’ at Von Lintel Gallery

"Wood Works: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered: Group Show; Sperone Westwater, New York

DISCOVERY

Explorer Robert Ballard’s memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean’s darkest reaches; Oceanographer Robert D. Ballard, who is best known for finding the wreck of Titanic, has written a memoir recounting his biggest discoveries and calling for more ocean exploration

The new age of ocean exploration; Robert Ballard

Move over, Mars: Why the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may be key to finding alien life

Unleash the Hounds: Archeology Edition: Worldwide Discoveries

In the Underwater Egyptian City of Thônis-Heracleion, Divers Have Discovered an Ancient Warcraft; City was rediscovered by underwater archaeologists in 2001

STREETWISE

“Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week” by BSA

Artist Asbestos’ Soul and Transitioning Between Levels of Existence in Dublin

'Because it's me, it's Black art:' Four local artists use work to inspire change

Buffalo street art: Murals, hidden public art to see throughout the city

Lluis Olive Shoots “The Photographer”: Summer Dispatch from Barcelona

Concreate Urban Art Festival 2021 Launches in Finland

BOOKS AND WORDS

The Beautiful and the Damned; New biography of Dave Hickey argues that the controversial critic belongs in the canon of American letters

In "Art Hiding in New York", you can explore the art all around a city that can't seem to get enough of it

Fascinated by the Voynich Manuscript? Here are some other mysterious texts you can decode; Take a crack at these other books that have stumped researchers

13 Architecture and Design Books to Add to Your Reading List

New Book: Jean-Michel Basquiat HEY HEY HEY!

A Very Personal Conversation About Jean-Michel Basquiat; "We Were All F***ed Up!"

Please! John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

From the Plains: Amy Von Lintel on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Canyon, Texas, Years

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Worldwide Film Fest Rundown: Slightly Let Down

"Dune" Trailer 2

Netflix’s Purchase of an Iconic LA Theatre and What It Could Mean. Opened in 1922, the Egyptian Theatre played host to Hollywood’s first-ever movie premiere

Lights, Camera, Souvlaki! Hollywood Sets Up in Greece

'Nitram' star Caleb Landry Jones wins best actor award at Cannes for playing Port Arthur killer

'Nitram' - Official Trailer

Parkour, Street Artist, Art Crime: "Twist" with Michael Caine, Rita Ora, Lena Headey, Raff Law

With ‘Black Widow’ ticket buying suddenly drying up, growing questions for Disney’s Marvel about what did it in

Loki’s production designer on the Modernist inspiration behind the show’s stunning visuals

Marvel Studios' "Loki" Official Trailer

Tilda Swinton, Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Memoria" Trailer (2021)

"All the Streets Are Silent" A collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop; Trailer

"Julia" A New Doc of Chef Julia Child (2021)

"The Last Duel" Official Trailer; Directed by Ridley Scott; Starring Jodie Comer, Adam Driver, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; Written by Affleck, Damon and Nicole Holofcener

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Quentin Tarantino Wants To Debut His Stage Play In London's West End

'Edge Of The World' Official Trailer (2021) Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Adventure

'The North Water' Trailer (2021) Colin Farrell

Cannes: This Is the Only Thing Gaspar Noé Fears About Death; The provocative director returns to the film festival with “Vortex,” a meditation on old age. Some are calling it his “Amour,” though Noé begs to differ

OUR SPOTLIGHT SERIES ON ARTS MEDIA

Art Report Today turns the Spotlight on Artillery Magazine: Editor Tulsa Kinney, Columnist Zak Smith and Arts Writer Julie Schulte; Host Gordy Grundy; Parts I and II

ARCHITECTURE

Tokyo’s Olympic architecture: look, no Bird’s Nest...

Zaha Hadid Architects Installs 3D-Printed Alis Pavilion At Venice Architecture Biennale

Stockholm Textile Factory From 1928 Is Transformed Into An Office Building With 5 Story Mass Timber Frame

The Biggest Astronomy Museum in the World Is Opening in Shanghai — and We Spoke to the Architect; The design of this cosmic museum is out of this world

20 Inspiring and Famous Architecture Quotes by Master Architects

From thatched huts to Wakanda, a massive new architectural guide explores Sub-Saharan Africa

The Pervasive Influence of Swahili Architecture

Championing Slow Architecture with Manea Kella; A movement that favours crafts, simplicity, locality and sustainable architecture

Why design couple, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, value vernacular architecture, their ‘surgical’ adaptation of old buildings in China and elsewhere, and the ideas that underpin it

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NYT: Art Meets Luxury Lifestyle at a Gallery’s Sunny New Location; Hauser & Wirth inaugurated its latest venture on a small Spanish island. Increasingly, the Swiss mega-gallery doesn’t just sell art. It trades in experiences

Lygia Pape’s posthumous show “Tupinambá” at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles

“Ecstatic Draught of Fishes” Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & Wirth London

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

'GHOST RIDER' OF THE WEEK

Must Hear! Burl Ives - The first cover of Ghost Riders In The Sky, recorded in 1949

SCIENCE

Maybe It’s Aliens, or Maybe It’s Volcanoes; Scientists are still trying to figure out what could be brewing on Venus, the planet next door

Dubai makes fake rain created by 'shocking' clouds to tackle 50C heatwave; As the United Arab Emirates sizzles in temperatures of up to 50C, Dubai has trialled a rain-enhancing technology that sees drones unleashing electrical charges in clouds so they produce rain

New '6G chip' could download Netflix film in 'less than a blink of the eye'

A 'strange signal' is coming from the Milky Way. What's causing it?

Book-industry insiders are coming down on both sides of the Blake Bailey–Philip Roth controversy, which resulted in the pulping of Bailey’s Roth bio

Before Covid and Studio 54, There Was Maxwell’s Plum; In the 1970s, an Upper East Side restaurant was the red-hot center of New York’s sexually liberated singles scene

For 50 years, residents of the Aeolian Islands’ Alicudi consumed an ingredient used in L.S.D. Today, they’re still hallucinating

A Journey to Miami’s Rubell Museum with the BMW Art Guide

Artist Sophia Giovannitti Contemplates the (Lack of) Separation Between Sex and Art

Tom Eckersley, the man who designed modern Britain

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Controversial Revitalization of Hirshhorn’s Sculpture Garden Gets the Go-Ahead

Examining the elements of breathtaking art; Weather patterns can help us understand what’s going on in these classic images

MANUFACTURING ART

Fine Art Conservator Julian Baumgartner on His Most Memorable Restoration Feats; The Chicago art conservator reflects on his time with the family business

Roped in: the acrobatic builders repairing Italy’s historic domes and bridges

Brooklyn Rail: What Happened When Renaissance Artists Prayed While Painting?

Maurizio Cattelan unveils memorial to 9/11 in new Milan show—20 years after witnessing tragedy; Idea for the project was considered "too emotionally fraught" for New York by Guggenheim chief curator

ART BUSINESS

The U.K. Government Will Slash Arts Funding in Higher Education by 50 Percent and Redirect Funds to Science and Medicine; Arts advocates are incensed

Insiders Are Growing More Confident About the Art Market

Meet the Anonymous Artist Who’s Auctioning Off Cans of Their Own Poop Based on the Diets of Major Market Stars at Phillips

The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for Artists; If you’re an artist, I challenge you to leverage these new dynamics and not rely on galleries as a necessity to sell your work

After a Wave of Protest Against Its Deaccessioning Scheme, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art Has Halted Its Plans; Museum has cut staff and launched an art summer camp to save and raise urgently needed funds

Art Handlers, Contract Workers at Galleries Faced Steepest Losses During Pandemic: Survey

Inside Tribeca’s Booming Gallery Scene with Jonathan Travis, the Realtor Who Helped Build It

An Archivist Sneezes on a Priceless Document. Then What?

Cuts at SFMOMA: Community Artists Gallery and film programs will close; Pandemic Economy

Annie Ernaux: ‘The Young Man of Venice’; A thirty-year-old memory, a one-night stand and an art exhibition featuring this newly translated piece by the prize-winning author

See How British Artist Bridget Riley’s Paintings ‘Caress and Soothe’ the Eye in Her New Show at David Zwirner London

MY ALIEN BFF

NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures

The French Sex Cult from Outer Space

Uriel Speaks on the Landing

The Strangest Encounters With Unidentified Aircraft We've Found In The FAA's Huge Database (Updated)

TIM PRENTICE

Tim Prentice: After the Mobile; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Virtual Tour of Tim Prentice: After the Mobile

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

What I Buy and Why: Millennial Collectors James and Kimberly Elbaor on the $1,200 Oscar Murillo Work That Got Away

Art Collector and billionaire real-estate developer Jorge Pérez Miami’s ‘Condo King’ Lists Coconut Grove Villa for $33 Million; See It Here!

Sotheby’s to Offer Selected British Pop Art from Businessman David Ross’s Collection

How Do Frames Shape the Way We Experience Art?

Cultured Collections with Steelo Brim, MTV host and producer

FICTION: JOHN TOTTENHAM

John Tottenham: Everybody Wants Some! "Why leave? I had already gambled my mood away."

EXPERIENTIAL

Cheng: San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab

Frida Kahlo Is the Latest Artist to Get the Immersive Installation Treatment With a New Projected Light Show in Mexico City

The Waitlist for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition; Palmdale, California

The Waitlist for Klimt: The Immersive Experience

Is performance art finally collectible? New London gallery event aims to move medium into mainstream market

"Every Wall is a Door" Superblue Miami, 2021

Immersive whale and waterfall media art to appear in New York's Times Square

Thirst Trap: Getting Sweaty in teamLab’s ‘Sauna Trance’

At This Instagram Hot Spot, All the World’s a Stage (and the Buffalo’s a Prop): China's Quaint Peasant Life of Yore; The setups are elaborate, including burning straw to simulate mist

Lucian Freud’s Sex Life Explored In New Exhibition

Paulina Peavy, the Spiritualist Artist Who Channeled a UFO; Show at Beyond Baroque is Peavy’s first on the West Coast in 75 years

PHOTOGRAPHY

A love from beyond the grave – Kurt Tong on his ‘ghost marriage’ photographs

Who Owns Mike Disfarmer’s Photographs? Strangers made his small-town portraits famous in the art world. Decades later, his heirs want control of the estate

Divine, Pacino, Jagger … and me: 50 years of Albert Watson’s portraits

Photographer Michal Chelbin: Student soldiers and teen matadors: kids prepare for adulthood

What, no smartphones? Teens without screens – in pictures

'Picturing the South' Exhibition Marks 25th Anniversary of the High’s Photography Series

Suitcase Joe and the State of Homeless Photography; Sidewalk Champions

JOHN STEPPLING

An Eye for an I

But to view Nature itself as both flawed, and dangerous, runs contrary to much of the Gaia new age Green think. Nature can be dangerous, naturally, so to speak. It demands ‘respect’. But a nature that takes on the role of contagion –while contagion and disease are clearly well known — is problematic as the antagonist in the master narrative. The Wuhan lab is the necessary scapegoat in this drama. (though Trump has played that part to a degree, too, in his *mishandling* of the crisis. Its fascinating how often that particular word is employed. *Mishandling*. That probably deserves a closer reading). The appeal for global vaccine is an artificially created desire.

BAER FAXT

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