Derivative Works Better!
Derivative is usually the curse of small cultures. George Enescu, the greatest Romanian composer, is rather too Dvorakian in his compositions, so few outside...
La Femme et Son Image
MoMA brought to our attention Cindy Sherman's work this year, but what the New York's modern art crown jewel should also do is bring...
Metropolitan Museum of Art to End Art Exhibits; Only Clothing and Other Crass Displays...
Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Met, offered an explanation for the museum's new direction. “It just wasn't a sustainable business model,” he said,...
Arts and Politics: Doll Boxes
In an age of miniature politics, nothing can help us better visualize reality than Sherry Mills' art in a box. Watch her interviewed by...
Art, Gadget or Adget?
Gadgets! Who doesn’t like gadgets? TPV adores them. TPV is a gadget. We are making the world smaller and more familiar to our readers....
U.S v. China. Are We the Queen of Outerspace?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awWQo9gYayQ
Playing with his big kite, Marquel, the TPV Times Colorful Section Correspondent, read In China’s Shadow, U.S. Courts Old Foe Vietnam. Increasingly at loggerheads...
Cuomo’s Got the Kiss of Death: Hillary’s
The Democratic Primary is this coming Tuesday, September 9, and Andrew Cuomo is scared. Deadly scared. He just asked his mommy dearest for help!
Hillary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKX4bQeMRc8
Now, little...
Keith Richards Is Writing a Children’s Book “Gus and me.” Its first sentence is...
Finally The N Y Times had nothing to report and made up a children's story: Keith Richards Is Writing a Children’s Book. Yes, a...
Frozen Assets
New York is not much fun for the slow minded, especially at a time of depression, such as ours. Take the New York Public Library,...
Valerie, Thank You for This Moment. Not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6XllkKLX2U
Valerie, the neurotic pretty girl who grew up into a hysterical hag, wrote a score-settling memoir which happens to be a tragic and demeaning tale of...
Watch, Don’t Think: The Case of “Top Secret” in Beijing
There is a profound distinction to be made between seeing and thinking, between witnessing something and unpacking it intellectually. Wrapped up in these concerns,...
Of Gods, Charlie Hebdo and Tasseography
This past week, the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, had its Paris office firebombed. Its website and Facebook page were also hacked and remain...
