COMMENTARY: How Obama’s Portrait Reveals the Failures of the Elitist Art World

Posted: March 26, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment

THE REMODERN REVIEW

In the Weeds: Kehinde Wiley’s Obama Portrait 

.As the United States clips along at the speed of Trump, the news cycle races by in a dizzying blur. Events rapidly recede without any time for real analysis. Such was the case for the big reveal of the official portraits of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Although it just happened on February 12, it already feels like ancient history. Yet this regrettable image is going to be cluttering up the National Portrait Gallery forever, so it’s worth understanding just what the tax payers had to subsidize.

The Michelle Obama portrait is just sad. A tentative, pallid non-likeness. The apparatchiks at the museum assure us that it is so popular it had to be moved to a larger display space. Perhaps a pilgrimage to it gives the same solace that some progressives get from the plastic Obama…

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BREAKING: A Message from Harry Reid

Posted: April 6, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Breaking News, History, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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[VIDEO] James Rosen, Sketch Artist

Posted: March 18, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

Safety Matches

Posted: February 7, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Defending Democracy: Vapo-Man!

Posted: February 5, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Original Krazy Kat Sunday Strip by George Herriman, 1922

Posted: February 5, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Sci-fi Cover: ‘A Planet of Your Own’, by John Brunner, Cover art by Jack Gaughan, 1966

Posted: February 2, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Freedomways

Posted: February 1, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
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‘World Without Men’: Ace D-274 Paperback Original, 1958, Cover Art by Ed Emsh

Posted: January 30, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Ace D-274 Paperback Original (1958). Cover Art by Ed Emsh

Classic Cover by Jim Mooney and Jack Burnley from Batman #43, DC Comics, 1947

Posted: January 25, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment
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Original Splash Page by Dick Dillin (pencils) and Sid Greene (inks) from ‘Atom and Hawkman’ #41, DC Comics, 1969

Posted: January 24, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Japan: ‘City & Design’ Magazine, Cover Illustration by Isamu Kurita, 1966

Posted: January 23, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Marvel Comics: That Time When Captain America Face to Face With Hitler

Posted: January 22, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Stan Lee: The Human Torch

Posted: January 22, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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The Economist Goes ‘Tremendous’

Posted: January 19, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Marvel: Captain America vs. Adolf Hitler

Posted: January 18, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Source: comicbookartwork

Danish poster for ‘Citizen Kane’, 1946 (Orson Welles, USA, 1941)

Posted: January 17, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Global | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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1946 Danish poster for CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, USA, 1941)

Artist: unknown

Poster source: Posteritati

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Democrats Today Magazine

Posted: January 14, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Comics: Spider-Man by Paolo Rivera

Posted: January 11, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment
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HELP! #6, January 1961: Original sketch by Harvey Kurtzman & Final Photo Cover by Ron Harris 

Posted: December 31, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
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Why would hey steal presents from a child?

Posted: December 24, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Santa Claus’ Night in Chicago’: Original Newspaper Strip by Stanley Smith

Posted: December 24, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Original newspaper strip by Stanley Smith, source unknown

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Source: thebristolboard

Forgotten masterpiece: Original hand-colored printer’s proofs of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ from Panic #1

Posted: December 24, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Science Fiction: ‘The Robot Empire’

Posted: December 22, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Santa Claus Visits The Moon Base’, Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, December 1954

Posted: December 21, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘The Monster that Challenged the World’, 1937

Posted: December 20, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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Have a Strange Christmas!

Posted: December 19, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Dr. Strangelove's Notebook, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Movie Poster: ‘I’ve Lived Before,’ Richard Bartlett, USA, 1956

Posted: December 16, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Poster: Arlatte Chicoree Bleu Argent

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Exciting Comics’

Posted: December 11, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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By Alex Schomburg. [The Comic Book Catacombs] (via greystokedpodcast)

Source: Not Pulp Covers

Captain America: ‘His Brother’s Keeper’

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Source: comicbookartwork

Captain America Inked Panels

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Comic Book Artwork: Captain America ‘Red Skull in the Morning Cap Take Warning!’

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Rocketpalooza

Posted: December 8, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Guns and Gadgets, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Rockets to Nowhere’, by Philip St. John

Posted: December 4, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Pulp Fiction Q: Which One?

Posted: December 3, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Movie Poster: ‘The Deadly Mantis’, 1957, Artwork by Ken Sawyer

Posted: December 2, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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The Deadly Mantis (Universal International, 1957). Science Fiction.
Starring Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph, Pat Conway, Florenz Ames, Paul Smith, Phil Harvey, Floyd Simmons, Paul Campbell, Helen Jay, Keith Aldrich, William A. Forester, and Paul Frees. Directed by Nathan Juran. Artwork by Ken Sawyer

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‘Fantastic’, April 1959, Cover by Ed Valigursky

Posted: December 2, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Ace Double D-465: The Martian Missile by David Grinnell, 1960, Cover art attributed to Ed Valigursky

Posted: December 1, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Reading Room, Space & Aviation | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Fantastic Science Fiction: ‘The Girl in Tube 14’

Posted: December 1, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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