All Hallows’ Eve 2022
A dead-ication to all ghouls and goblins—Happy Halloween.
Michael Heizer’s City A Scar On The Earth
This is a tale of two cities, though I imagine Charles Dickens never imagined anything like the following. The story has to do with one garden city where gentlepeople exalt art, and another cosmopolis… actually the very same burg, where those identical magnificos step over bodies to see first-class art exhibits. Wherever you are in Los Angeles, you will come…
Climate Vandals Target Vermeer Painting
At around 2 o’clock in the afternoon on Oct. 27, 2022, evil spirits entered the Mauritshuis art museum located in the Hague, Netherlands. Three eco-vandals came to the museum to assail one of the world’s most beloved paintings, Girl with a Pearl Earring by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Two of the vandals wore white T-shirts emblazoned with the…
Eco-Vandals Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting
On Oct. 23, 2022 four members of the German eco-extremist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), entered the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany and attacked a famous painting by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The four entered the room where Monet’s 1890 oil painting Les Meules (Haystacks) was hanging on display. Two members of the group wore bright orange safety vests;…
No Laughing Matter, Jimmy Carr Destroys Art
Great Britain’s Channel 4 announced it will premier a new television show in late Oct. 2022 called Art Trouble. Before airing, the show’s title was revised to Jimmy Carr Destroys Art. The entertainment show will let its audience decide which artwork from a “problematic” artist like Pablo Picasso or Adolf Hitler will be destroyed by comedian Jimmy Carr, the host…
Just Stop Oil Attacks Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
On Oct 14, 2022, two young women from the eco-extremist organization “Just Stop Oil” entered London’s National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. The duo wore coats to hide their matching black and white T-shirts reading Just Stop Oil. Their plan was to attack Sunflowers, the famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh. When they entered Room 43 where Sunflowers is displayed, the…
Australian Vandals Glue Picasso Painting
On Oct. 9, 2022, three extremists from Extinction Rebellion assailed a Picasso painting on display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. It was the last day of the museum’s exhibit The Picasso Century, which ran from June 10, 2022 to Oct. 9, 2022. The show featured 80 works by Picasso and 100 artworks from contemporaries like Henri…
Mystical Images of War from Natalia Goncharova
Perhaps we can understand our jingoist present by examining our warring past. Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962), was the first woman artist in the avant-garde of Russia. She was a painter, print maker, writer, and provocateur. She created costumes and set backdrops for the Ballet Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. She married fellow avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov, the two becoming inseparable life partners….