February 11th, 2010
Figuring Out the Abstract: Gender, Politics, and Art
Tags/ Posted by Stephen PainShe guesses a bee can fly five thousand miles in one day and even though everyone playing trivia at the family table says she can change her answer, Mom sticks to it.continue reading this poem
To view, or “perform” art as Rosie Goldberg argues, is a challenge. We are often at a disadvantage even before we open our eyes to what is in front of us. Still in the 21st century, even after the art sociologist John Berger’s brilliant TV series “Ways of Seeing,” men look with sex in their eyes.
