When The Fool has something to say, it's prudent to perk up those ears. Whether represented as a sooth-saying oaf in Shakespeare or the daring and disaster-prone man in a deck of tarot, the seeming nonsensical madness can bring needed,...
ART REVIEW: "Paint Made Flesh"
Oh, misfortunate humanity! To be aware of ourselves is to suffer and to know it - what a grab bag of boons and curses is our lot. And oh, the resultant, urgently probing existential angst. And the horrors we commit! World War II was certainly...
Human Sexuality: the Final Frontier! Here is the truth: we have always stood in awkward, vulnerable terror of our sexual nature. In lusting after strict and neat definitions, we forsake the beauty and freedom that can be found in seeing that the...
ART REVIEW: "Beauty Plus Pity"
"The world is perfect, and we're such fuckups," Emily Vey Duke laments in "The Birds Come Back," one episode within "Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure," a video by the Canadian artist-couple Duke and Battersby. This month at Rochester...
ART REVIEW: "The Arrogance of Power"
Robert Ernst Marx is disturbed. He does not render pretty, comfortable images. His despairing muses are distorted and bound, either overtly or metaphorically; they wear the heavy signals of every kind of subjugation. But they've largely done it...
ART REVIEW: Sharon Gordon and Peter Harris
You've heard that old adage, "It's not the destination, but the journey." How many times have you finally arrived at a location or at a goal, only to experience an anticlimactic, underwhelming result? So after a rest, we plot our next...
Talk about tough shoes to fill. From the beginning, the great pianist Dave Brubeck's signature...
If you're crafty, you're already hard at work on the special holiday project of the season....
What child hasn't dreamed of flying, battling bad guys, and saving the world? Role-playing as...
Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
I was recently talking with a friend who, due to various schisms in his family, doesn't...
Recent Comments
James said:
Wonderful...exciting creativity. Perhaps all the New York legislators should visit the show, reflect, understand, and become creative before the...
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Zorcutt said:
Fantastico!!!
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James said:
Great review!
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Susan Kendrick said:
Provocative - I own 2 Robert Marx graphite works that are haunting figures. People always gravitate towards , them full of questions, they want...
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Brenda Nardi said:
I was fortunate enough to see this exhibition on a recent trip to Rochester. I am amazed by the powerful statement each of Robert's works make...
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