Michelangelo. Van Gogh. Picasso. And Darger? Perhaps the last name is not one you would include in a category of the “fine artist.” But outsider art – various labels include self-taught art, naïve art, folk art, or what the 20th-century French painter Jean Dubuffet termed “Art Brut” – has been gaining ...
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At the end of January, Janet Reno was photographed while singing karaoke at a fundraiser in Miami. Her song of choice was Aretha Franklin’s classic, “Respect.”
The visual image of Reno belting out “R-E-S-P-E-C-T/Find out what it means to me,” sums up my attitude of the past few weeks. When driving ...
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Denouncing Wal-Mart’s cutthroat brand of free-market capitalism is passé. Every argument that could have possibly been made against the chain has been stated and regurgitated time and again by the media, countless pundits, and Joe Average You-n’-Me.
You’ve heard them all before: the ...
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The presidential election in 2000 was a mess. You remember hanging chads, partisan Secretaries of State, machine malfunctions, voter lines. We all agreed that it needed fixing and the federal government passed the Help America Vote Act. Among other things, the HAVA offers municipalities big money ...
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A few months ago, the Pittsburgh City Council voted 6-3 on an ordinance that’s got some local (and nearly local) folks annoyed. While the title reads, “Public Safety at Health Care Facilities,” and the text is very general about “health care facilities,” it’s really about what goes on in front of the ...
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Ok, I know this column is called ‘Back Alley Bar Tour’ but I must admit up front – this place is not on a back alley. But you’ve probably driven by it many times and missed it because it’s located in that dead area on Carson Street next to Cupple’s Stadium between Station Square and the 10th Street ...
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On Friday, January twentieth, The Art Police (Charlie Brice and photographic artist Tim Fabian) raided the opening of, “100% Centennial,” the alumni show at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at CMU. The exhibit celebrates the one-hundredth anniversary of CMU’s College of Fine Arts and can be seen through ...
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