Portrait of Duchamp
Portrait of Duchamp, ink on paper, 5 x 5″
Terrorism and Postmodern Art
There are people in the world who can’t stand to see that beauty and creativity exist. The guy who took a hatchet to the Pieta of Michelangelo. The Taliban leader who chose to blow up the Buddhist cliff sculptures.
Upcoming and Has Been at The Hirshhorn
In the Fall/Winter of 2023 the Hirshhorn will host a survey of Simone Leigh. She will represent the United States at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. This is the best artist they can find to represent the United States of America. What is the real agenda of Biennale? Daniel …
Destruction of Art, Postmodernism, and Being a Whole Person
Today I was looking for alternative news outlets, and I came a link to the dated article, Museum [The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center] Proposes Melting Lee Statue to Make New Artwork, Oct. 21, 2021, Bloomberg, US edition. Which piqued my interest for one reason: as a variation on the postmodern project—destroying an artwork …
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School Shooting Vs Joy As an End In Itself
Philosopher Stephen Hicks offers three hypotheses on school shooters here: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2022/05/27/school-shooters-three-hypotheses/ Hicks makes two interesting observations: “The school shooters are near-but not-quite total nihilists who feel empty except for despair and hate …” and in their minds “the destruction of the individuals involved is generic and impersonal.” With those thoughts lets think about postmodern art. …
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The Disaster of Postmodern Art
A quote from my upcoming book, Pandora’s Box and Other Essays. The quote was from my article originally published on October 8, 2001, less than a month after 9/11. Directly preceding it is the definition of civilization from the American Heritage Dictionary: “An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked …
2004 A Man with his Art on his Sleeve
Architect Peter Cresswell interviews artist Michael Newberry. Published in The Free Radical -April-May 2004 Who is Michael Newberry? Michael Newberry is an artist with a passion. In these days when the word ‘artist’ usually requires the prefix ‘bullshit-’, Newberry instead has a vibrant, shimmering painting style that screams of exuberance and a raw joy in being alive. “Newberry’s paintings are the work of a strikingly …
Transcending Traitors, oil on linen.
There are three kinds of humans: creators, neutrals, and vampires. The vampires are the most pathetic not because they suck life out of everyone they touch, but left to their own they have no means of survival, they actually can’t do work, create, or contribute any value. To survive they have to specifically manipulate the …
Newberry, Palm Ocean Ave, pastel
Another view from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica Art has been ruthlessly attacked by postmodernism for the last century with the aim to reduce you to a moron. Specifically to cut you off from art, your senses, your heart, and your intelligence. Their road map is to dump senseless shit on you, like Duchamp’s Urinal …
Michael Newberry 