Had Enough Therapy?

Camille Paglia is out selling her soon-to-be-released book, Glittering Images . To promote it she did an extended and fascinating intervie...

An anonymous commenter offered a link to this BBC show, "Why Beauty Matters," as a follow-up to my post about Camille Paglia. The ...

Who killed art? The mystery is all around us. Happily,   Camille Paglia is on the case. In a recent column Paglia noted that the ...

I’m not sure what we should make of it, but it bears mention: the center of gravity of the world art market seems to have set down in China....

Surely, the late 19th century was not the first time that decadent artists discovered they could make a living by shocking the bourgeoisie. ...

Two decades ago I was chatting with a well-known and highly successful artist at a cocktail party that was being held in the salon of an art...

Few prose stylists can match Camille Paglia for raw energy and spirited excitement. And yet, the more Paglia gives free reign to her Dionysi...

We all know that art is eternal. It lasts forever. Or, at least, most of it is supposed to. And great sculpture was made of materials that w...

Market bubbles, like Ponzi schemes, end when someone takes away the punch bowl or the champagne. As everyone knows by now, the moment when e...

To begin, here are two links on how the financial world became undone, one from journalist Michael Lewis (link here) , and another from Harv...

Several people have asked me to elaborate on the last post, so here goes. People were mostly interested in the notion that trauma makes ever...

Until recently I had never heard the name of performance artist Paul McCarthy. Now, thanks to an act of God, I have . I do not feel better f...

Among the dogmas of modern intellectual life we find this one: reality is socially constructed. If you are out of touch with reality, this i...

By definition, when an object is art it does not induce us to go out and do something. Beginning with Aristotle's idea that tragedy prod...