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Maya Lin, Ai Qiu Hopen, and acceptability of art by Chinese-American artists...
Some works of art are initially resisted before they become beloved. It’s fair to say that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is beloved today. When you consider the opposing opinions on the war, it’s...
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Coolidge-era real estate promotion goes sour
It was a peaceful area. People grew crops by their homes here. The neighborhood received a little fame when it staged a production of William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in a local canyon. The local...
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Why Frank Zappa’s alternative to the PMRC wouldn’t work today
Lost in all of the drama of Frank Zappa vs. the PMRC is the detail that Zappa actually proposed an alternative to the PMRC’s record rating system. Here’s how Zappa proposed to address the question of...
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An uncomfortable paragraph
Nathan Rabin has written an essay that begins with the following paragraph: The blond, slight, hockey-obsessed Canadian teenager flirts outrageously with the camera, knowing full well that it is his...
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Unintended consequences – how the Cold War unearthed an art forgery
The “Cold War” in the second half of the twentieth century gave us more than the fitting acronym MAD (which stood for mutually assured destruction). It also gave us something known as the “bomb peak.”...
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Are we more vulnerable than the Ingalls family on the prairie?
The Ingalls family, immortalized in a series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, had it rough. If a disaster struck the family during a long winter, they couldn’t just dial up 911 and get relief. If one...
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Visiting an art museum with Anne
This is another post inspired by something originally shared by Loren Feldman. The article from The Independent tells of an Englishwoman who chose to end her own life: Anne told the newspaper she felt...
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But women can’t write manly things
I was reading about the transition from Middle English to Modern English, and ran across this statement in a paragraph about William Caxton: For the first time, nonprofessional scribes, including...
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Sterling Crispin asks what facial recognition is recognizing
(DISCLOSURE: I am employed in the biometrics industry.) Planet Biometrics brought Sterling Crispin to my attention. Crispin is an artist who explores the relationship between technology and humanity....
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Betamax and VHS: 1975-?
I have not had occasion to mention Betamax or VHS in tymshft. Well, actually I have. In 2012, while writing about the narrowing of generation gaps, I wrote the following: The much-talked-about blog...
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Perceptive RETURN from Travel
There are a number of people who write about traveling. There are blogs (allow me to single out Perceptive Travel for special mention), books, and other media that describe the sensation of going away...
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