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Category Archives: Art
CBC On Design: And You Thought Watching Cement Dry Was Not Exciting! Think Again After Watching “How to Design With Concrete”
A new digital series CBC ON DESIGN launches on 4July2025 with a new episode weekly. In five 15-minute episodes, the CBC Arts Original Series explores how an industrial designer’s idea evolves to become a product in your home. The series begins with CONCRETE featuring Montreal designers Matt and Shawna Heide founders of CONCRETE CAT. MattContinue reading “CBC On Design: And You Thought Watching Cement Dry Was Not Exciting! Think Again After Watching “How to Design With Concrete””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Spoils”: Morality Butts Heads with Legality and Political Games
Morality dictates the conclusion to be drawn from the “looting” of art by the Nazis in World War II is such art should be returned to the heirs of the owners the Nazis “stole” it from. Legality may dictate otherwise due to the civil law doctrine in Germany (and in common law jurisdictions) a purchaserContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Spoils”: Morality Butts Heads with Legality and Political Games”
Man With “Men in Tights Syndrome” Subjected to The Nutcracker Protocol Therapy
I recently spoke with renowned psychiatrist Dr. Kainik Zlatco of Zagreb University currently heading an international consortium of behavioral psychiatrists preparing a major study of men suffering from “men in tights syndrome”. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness “men in tights syndrome” (MITS) is defined as follows: “An irrational fear ofContinue reading “Man With “Men in Tights Syndrome” Subjected to The Nutcracker Protocol Therapy”
Moscow’s Oligarch Hall of Fame Inducts Donald J. Trump as New Member: 3March2025: Spoof News Services: Stalingrad
Moscow’s Oligarch Hall of Fame today announced a new member Donald Trump, President of the United States. Moscow’s Oligarch Hall of Fame Chairman Petros Polievchinsky, nephew of President Vladimir Putin, made the announcement in a press conference at the Melania Marriot in downtown Stalingrad yesterday evening. Polievchinsky toasting President Trump with a large glass ofContinue reading “Moscow’s Oligarch Hall of Fame Inducts Donald J. Trump as New Member: 3March2025: Spoof News Services: Stalingrad”
RKS 2024 Film: “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”: A Photographic Grand Queen
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) is the subject of a documentary shortly to be released in United States theatres entitled “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”. His story is recounted by a former lover, art historians, museum curators, former models, family members, former employees, film directors, gallerists and most importantly his photographs and correspondenceContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”: A Photographic Grand Queen”
RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero”
Watching the documentary “Tish” about British photographer Tish Murtha the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” are most appropriate. “A working-class hero is something to be.” Although the late Tish Murtha now has a permanent exhibition of her photos at the Tate Museum in London she never reached the status of a working classContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero””
RKS 2024 Arts and Culture: Käthe Kollwitz at New York’s MoMA
In the early decades of the 20th century, when many artists were experimenting with abstraction, Käthe Kollwitz remained committed to an art of social purpose. Focusing on themes of motherhood, grief, and resistance, she brought visibility to the working class and asserted the female point of view as a necessary and powerful agent for change. “I haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Arts and Culture: Käthe Kollwitz at New York’s MoMA”
RKS 2024 Arts and Culture: LaToya Ruby Frazier Photographic Exhibit Opens at New York’s MoMA
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity opened 12May2024 and runs until 7September2024 at New York’s MoMA. For this exhibition, Frazier has reimagined her diverse bodies of work as a sequence of original installations that she calls “monuments for workers’ thoughts,” which address the harmful effects of industrialization and deindustrialization, the healthcare inequities facing Black working-class communitiesContinue reading “RKS 2024 Arts and Culture: LaToya Ruby Frazier Photographic Exhibit Opens at New York’s MoMA”
RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)
“Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye, as he rules out a ciphering book, with a pocket handkerchief. I have plenty to do. I don’t watch his eye in idleness but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether itContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)”
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