Posts in Social Commentary

Detail of Rubens’s Saturn Devouring a Son, showing the Roman god clutching and biting into the body of a child; an allegory of power’s fear of its heirs and its need for scapegoats.

Scapegoating

In Saturn Devouring a Son, Peter Paul Rubens’ vision of a god consuming his child reveals the paranoia of[…]

You’ve got mail

You’ve got mail

Send all your lovin’ to Donald We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs,[…]

Egg them on

Egg them on

We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and[…]

Millinery Coup

Millinery coup

We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and[…]

Artists are a threat

Artists are a threat

Arts organizations are endangered Last week, the president of the United States put himself in charge of[…]