“I see a system that, even if it bounces back to “normal,” I have no interest in rejoining, a system that is beginning to come undone.” So says…
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As a figurative sculptor I’ve spent much of my life turning over the questions of exploitation in viewing the body. As a male artist, when I…
A couple nights ago I was awakened by an argument outside my open window. It was my neighbor shouting at some guy in a car, apparently…
I was asked recently to address an online group called Design Your Life, about living an authentic life in times when the culture is trying to…
There is a major rot in the heart of American culture that I’ve worried about for some time but that’s rarely recognized. So it was with…
My wife Sam and our 11-year-old daughter Penny came home this week with a surprise: a homeless man. The temperature had dipped to -10 and was plunging toward -35…
It was 1987 when I got a call from a national United Methodist Church committee that wanted to award South African anti-apartheid activist and spokesperson Archbishop…
I mourn the steady loss of beauty in our time. One would think in a sophisticated, wealthy society like ours that while we make plans to…
In capitalism, virtually the only value recognized in the arts is in either entertainment or decoration (the items that can sell; commodities). Of course there is a very…
Why can’t the most advanced civilization in history create more beauty? This issue has always worried me. Yes, the demise of community cohesion is one culprit.…