 Art and Entrepreneurship: The Michael Newberry Interview
by Kaizen Newsletter
The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published the second issue of its newsletter, Kaizen, featuring an interview with New York City artist Michael Newberry. (Read more...)
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Figure the Future, Upcoming TAS Talk
by Michael Newberry
Figure the Future The nude in art graced the civilizations of Ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance, and much of Europe through to the beginning of the 20th century. In this presentation, painter Michael Newberry will explain how the nude stands for more than titillation—that rather it is the p... (Read more...)
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A Christmas Package Deal
by Eric Rockwell
This article examines the merits of a beloved holiday classic by Charles Dickens. (Read more...)
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Art Tutorials
by Michael Newberry
Not sure how long it has been since my last post...but, I opted to spend my time more constructively than toying with y’all. :) I have completed lots of work and recently sold an important work, within weeks of signing it, for over $50,000. Instead of writing posts here I have begun writing online art tutorial... (Read more...)
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Roark Rising
by Alexander Butziger
Looking at the Manhattan skyline (kneeling if you will), let's talk about life imitating art. After more than half a century, it looks like two buildings out of The Fountainhead are finally getting built in New York. (Read more...)
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A Philosophical Review of Chicago the Musical
by Michael F Dickey
This weekend I saw a performance of the musical Chicago at the university my friend is attending. I had not yet seen this story on stage or in film, and was not overly familiar with it beyond having to do with some dancers and murder. The performance I saw was very enjoyable as far as productions by college students g... (Read more...)
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Beyond Emotion: The Gestalt Theory of Music
by Joseph C. Maurone
The Gestalt theory of music, if correct, may offer many clues to further Rand's dream of seeing an objective explanation of music. But even if it's not, it's an encouraging sign that man is on the right track, at least, putting aside mystical explanations (Read more...)
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Musical Innovation: Devotion or Deviance?
by Joseph C. Maurone
Without falling into the post-modern trap of relativism and denying that some composers are better than others, innovation requires deviation and diversity. The rules, once known, are begging to be broken. If one wants to see innovation in music, one needs to engage in the dialectic of devotion and deviation. (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 17, 2005 |
What's Wrong with Bebop? Reflections on Ayn Rand and Jazz
by Roger E. Bissell
An objective analysis of the value of music in general, and on bebop jazz in particular, focuses primarily on the presence and quality of memorable melody. For that reason, bebop jazz, while not without redeeming virtues, is of lesser rational value than, say, Dixieland jazz. Avant-garde jazz, however, like avant-garde music in general, is beyond the pale! (Read more...)
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The Rise and Fall of Melody in 5.1 Surround Sound
by Joseph C. Maurone
Rand's depiction of a mangled Halley composition proved to be prophetic in the wake of the technological attack on melody in modern music. (Read more...)
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What Might Music Yet Become?
by Joseph C. Maurone
A summary of Robert Jourdain's theory of the role of technology in music as presented in Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy. (Read more...)
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The Myth of Orpheus and the Future of Music
by Joseph C. Maurone
What is more beneficial to the future of music, change or tradition? The tragic tale of Orpheus may provide a clue to the answer. (Read more...)
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Wagner - My First Time
by Tim Sturm
Cresswell, you were right, and Perigo was wrong. As wrong as Rand was on Beethoven. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 21, 2005 |
Who Needs Great Art?
by Peter Cresswell
Painting, movies, literature, sculpture, music, architecture ... all have the ability to make us cry, to make us laugh, and -- just occasionally -- to make us feel ten-feet tall. Why is great art so powerful? -- why does it have this profound ability to affect us? (Read more...)
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Bud and Lou, Art and Sue
by Fred Seddon
Literature, since it has a semantics, places rather severe limits on what one can say about the content of, say, a novel. Music is more akin to aural wallpaper than it is to a mimetic art like literature. (Read more...)
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You're Still Young, That's Your Fault
by Eric J. Tower
In this short story, a young college student named Elizabeth Kipper must tell her father, a powerful campaign manager, that she will no longer accept his financial support. After realizing that her father's income is made by keeping evil men in power, she seeks the freedom of self-reliance. (Read more...)
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The Sharp Test for Films
by Peter Cresswell
I like adult films. There, I’ve said it. And as my video store doesn't know what I mean by that, I’ve sorted out my own ten working rules for finding good adult movies. As a public service, to help you avoid wasting valuable minutes of your life watching crap, I offer them here for your guidance. Thank me later. (Read more...)
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Schulmeister's Trophy (Part Two of Two)
by Julia Brent
Part two of Shulmeister's Trophy. (Read more...)
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Schulmeister's Trophy (Part One of Two)
by Julia Brent
I've taken a challenge as I stumble from poetry to prose, choosing a time and place usually more interesting to men and those who study fighting and war.
This piece of historical fiction is the first part of an exercise given by a friend. I write a letter in character, and she responds without any direction from me, and letter by letter we write a novel.
She's a fantasy writer, and threw a tantrum when she read the manuscript. "I can't believe you picked the Battle of _______!" So real, so brutally cold and male. She may have wanted mythology, ancient air, and animal spirits in super-nova, but I can't be sure. She won't speak to me, but is tersely rising to the task, angry as any war goddess.
To those familiar with this time period, let me know how I stand on accuracy. For that, and any other thoughts, I will be very grateful. (Read more...)
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Catching Dreams: Preston Tucker’s Fight for Free Enterprise
by Jomana M. Papillo
He is excited by a system where deals are negotiated and profit is the reward of intelligent trading. And like most Americans, he is a sucker for a bargain. The most enticing bargain of all, however, is the American free enterprise system. What a deal: work hard to turn an idea into a profitable venture, and you will be duly rewarded. (Read more...)
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Our Greatest Living Tenor: Placido Domingo
by James Kilbourne
There is no tenor in history who has worked harder on his art than Placido Domingo. (Read more...)
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My Teacher, Myself
by Adam Buker
One of the reasons I study at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale is my professor of composition, Dr. Frank Stemper. I generally find his compositions to be abysmal and abhorrent and metaphysically grotesque. I've even stated my opinion of his and other avant-garde crap to him in class (though with a great deal of tact). I write music that is more akin to Ravel, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. Why on earth would a person like me study with a Post-modern like him? (Read more...)
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Yes? No!
by James Kilbourne
The music is better than the booklet, but that would also be true of a four-year bubonic plague epidemic. (Read more...)
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Triumph Over Chaos
by Heidi C. Morris
Artistic nudity has long been a part of traditional artistic work, but can it ever be appropriate in photographic art? Does it cross the line into the grotesque, or can it be part of an artistic celebration of humanity? (Read more...)
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Robin Field, the Peter Pan of Reason
by Rodney Rawlings
Robin Field’s many-faceted background in light entertainment—vaudeville, impressions, acting, pantomime, radio, theater, cartooning, puppetry, and ventriloquism—makes him a fitting representative of that joyous, benevolent American sense of life which Objectivism defends. And the persona he portrays in Three Questions: A Philosophical Oratorio is like nothing so much as Disney’s Peter Pan: “fearless, laughing, confident, able, free, independent, victorious.” (Read more...)
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