Art at the blogs, and Maria's article

The Dumb Ox now has a news headlines feature that is fantastic. BTW, that blog's title refers to St. Thomas Aquinas, in case you didn't know. TDO also refers us to a most beautiful display of Easter art at Eagle and Elephant (click on the photos), a new blog I added to the blogroll.

Nowhere near as lovely is the Whitney Biennial. Last week Clive Davis posted about it, including a link to James Panero's review, who said,

The derivations change, but what remains consistent is the badness the curators are always able to pull together.

I went, I saw, and trust me on this, Panero was being kind. The "art" had no new insights, no aesthetic value, no wit, no humor, not even novelty. The experience was as exciting as watching a display of stale bread. The Amazon editorial review says,

More than 100 artists and collaborative teams are included-recognized artists as well as those whose work has never before been seen in a major museum.

One can only hope they won't be seen again. Sissy Willis has more.
Update On second thought, a display of stale bread might have had some humor and metaphorical interest.
Update 2 Speaking of art . . .

Glad I wasn't there
All Passengers on NYC Cable Cars Rescued:

The passengers became stranded around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday
. . .
The rescue effort ended around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

Glad I wasn't there, II
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes have Suri

"Suri," according to Cruise's news release, is a word with origins in both Hebrew and Persian. In Hebrew it means "princess," and in Persian, "red rose," the release said. (It also means "pickpocket" in Japanese, although the news release did not mention that.)

Makes you yearn for the days when people named their daughters Fausta.

Today's article from Maria
Criminolgy professor Mike Adams writes about A new definition of racism.

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