arts and culture
Cannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage
July 22, 2021Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.
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New crime fiction novel ‘A Hello to Arms’ slams postwar capitalism in L.A.
July 21, 2021Dennis Broe’s new crime fiction novel starring private investigator Harry Palmer in his second Los Angeles outing has just appeared from Pathmark Press.
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Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity
July 12, 2021This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.
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The Colescott Chronicles Part 2: Expanding Black representation, critiquing consumerism and colonialism
June 25, 2021[caption id="attachment_110481" align="alignright" width="430"] "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware." Seattle Art Museum[/caption] Robert Colescott’s satire of Americana George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware has now become the centerpiece of L.A.’s new Lucas Museum of American...
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The Colescott Chronicles Part I: Breaking free of color blindness and abstract art
June 15, 2021One of the founding members of New Black Art just reaped the rewards of his painterly prowess. Robert Colescott’s monumental George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware recently sold for $15.3 million.
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