The mad genius is rarely either and never both.
Aug 122022
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Aug 092022
Most artists who are supposed to have perished of drink or drugs in fact simply bored themselves to death.
Jul 272022
Western man worships bluesmen the same way the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
Jun 062022
Every photograph is fake.
May 312022
Art experts concern themselves with provenance because they have no other way to spot a fake.
May 042022
Without gods, religions run amok.
May 022022
A civilization that values chiefly what it can measure will produce expensive ugliness, as we observe.
Apr 132022
Where nonsense is tolerated, difficulty is banished.
Mar 292022
Not all religions proselytize, but all secular religions do.
Mar 112022
We defeat ourselves not with scarcity but surfeit: too much food, too much data, too much leisure, and far, far too much art.