It’s a good question. I’ve decided that it isn’t necessarily one that simply reflects back at you your own ideas. It is far more interesting to read a book which challenges you to think about things for yourself. This is certainly the case with Lanny May Freedman’s What happened to art? which I’m reading at … Read more
Today I gave a presentation to the regional Italian Circle on the subject of art in Italy during the fascist period. The development of modern art in Italy is a topic that has interested me for some time, and I admit that my ideas are very much in the process of developing. I still vacillate … Read more
I think that it is in his song The Captain that Leonard Cohen has the unforgettably startling lines, “Complain, complain, that’s all we’ve done, ever since we lost./If it’s not the Crucifixion then it’s the Holocaust.” The jibe is directed against his fellow Jews, but it came into my mind today as I was taking … Read more