dennis scharnberg

Modernist Art:  proof of the persistence of the myth of Creativity.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

A Spector is haunting Europe.

Alwyn Westhocker, The Story of Rock.

Modernism is not moribund, but dead.  Does that mean that the making of images will now come to an end?  No.  Images will be made.  More and more.  But, increasingly, these images will be rotten.

Sebastian Winthur,  Hypertrophy and Decline in the Visual Arts.

The danger signal for any society:  when that society becomes difficult to parody.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Smother Goose

Beards of a father

Livid in a shoe

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

81.  The notion that the people are willing and able to govern themselves is the greatest scam in history.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

What do these paintings say to us?  They say nothing.  Nothing at all.  The paintings are mute.  And it is always with the muteness that we must contend.

Tycho Vetters,  The Self-Portraits of Albrecht Durer.

Young Peter (to Mr. Crabbin):   Pardon me, sir.  But aren’t you a detective?

Crabbin:   Well, I’m an old coot.  So, yes.  Yes, I am a detective.

Benedict Huxley,   Murder Again:  A Play in Three Acts.

Irony:   the worst use of language today; the most common use of language today.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words. 

People have called Peters a “nazi” because, of course, people do that.

Gilbert Dollarhide,  The Toil and the Trouble.