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[
Left: We Are Afraid.
Mark Vallen. Graphite on paper. 1987.
shown at the Brand Library's
"Man's Inhumanity to Man" exihibition. ]
Mark
Vallen's "Art For A Change" Web Log
www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
New
Blog Posts: El
Salvador Presente - "Two years after El Salvador's
civil war ended in 1992, I would create my drawing, El Salvador
Presente, a visual summation of my attitude towards that
Central American nation's long conflict." My
Take on Things: An Interview with Vallen - "'Realism',
as I understand the word, is not just a specific aesthetic,
but a way of examining, analyzing, and making comment upon
certain objective conditions found in our world." LACMA's
$25 Million Choo-Choo Train - "A price-tag of
$25 million for the LACMA-Koons Train boondoggle verges
upon lunacy, and it most assuredly is an indication of an
arts institution profoundly out of touch with the realities
lived by the vast majority of the working population of
California and the nation."
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