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    You Weren’t Using Your Rights Anyway

    ByMark Vallen March 1, 2006June 6, 2023

    An important new opinion poll reveals that Americans know more about The Simpsons cartoon TV show than about the US Constitution. Conducted by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, the poll found that only 28 percent of those surveyed could name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, while almost twice as…

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    Mary Magdalene is from Afghanistan?

    ByMark Vallen February 28, 2006June 6, 2023

    Apparently St. Mary Magdalene was from Afghanistan. While looking through an online edition of the Washington Post I discovered an article they ran about Mary Magdalene, which was accompanied by the illustration shown below. The graphic had the following caption: “This handout image released by the Grace Cathedral shows an icon of St. Mary Magdalene, the principal woman disciple of…

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  • Sex Pistols Shove Off Rock Hall of Fame
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    Sex Pistols Shove Off Rock Hall of Fame

    ByMark Vallen February 27, 2006March 30, 2023

    Furious and snarling, the Sex Pistols exploded onto the world stage in 1977. Their anti-authoritarian stance, expressed in songs like Anarchy in the UK and God Save The Queen, outraged society and turned the music world upside down. As the years passed, more and more people started to recognize how great a rock band the Pistols actually were, and while…

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  • Postmodernism-Remodernism

    David Byrne & the Filipino Dictators

    ByMark Vallen February 24, 2006November 1, 2022

    I groaned when I first read that rocker turned postmodern artist, David Byrne, had written a musical about Imelda Marcos titled Here Lies Love. Does the world really need another de-politicized musical ala Evita? The musical premiered at the 2006 Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia. Byrne collaborated with British DJ Fatboy Slim to produce the musical. The Adelaide Arts Festival…

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    LAist Interview: Mark Vallen

    ByMark Vallen February 20, 2006November 1, 2022

    Andy Warhol’s statement that “every person will be world-famous for fifteen minutes,” was an amazing insight into a consumerist culture driven by media, but he hardly could have imagined that artists would someday be interviewed in virtual publications that exist in a place called cyberspace. Here’s my fifteen minutes of world fame, as the LAist website put questions to me…

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  • Art of War | Artists and the Iraq war

    An Abstract Expression of Horror

    ByMark Vallen February 16, 2006June 6, 2023

    On February 16, 2006 Australia’s Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) program Dateline aired previously unpublished video and photos taken by US troops at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. The damning pictures show Iraqi prisoners bound, naked, wounded, some covered in blood or excrement – undergoing abuse at the hands of their American jailers. Caution: this essay contains violent imagery not suitable…

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    2006 Olympics: Art, Sports & Fascism

    ByMark Vallen February 11, 2006June 6, 2023

    While watching the televised opening ceremonies for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, I was stunned to hear the anchorman casually mention the fact that the stadium had been “built by Benito Mussolini,” a fact to which was attributed no historical context or significance. I found myself wondering if such a nonchalant attitude would have been taken had the stadium been…

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    The Bush Bust & Free Fall

    ByMark Vallen February 10, 2006November 3, 2022

    The National Guard Association of the United States commissioned a life-sized portrait bust of President Bush from famed artist, Charles Parks, who for the last 50 years has created over 500 sculptures in the realist tradition. In a special February 9th ceremony at the National Guard Building in Washington DC, Park’s bronze statue memorializing Bush’s service in the Texas Air…

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