by Scott Holleran | Feb 23, 2018 | ART, MOVIES
Ben Affleck’s 2012 movie, Argo, reduces the so-called Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981) to an episode of smaller proportions with satisfactory results. This isn’t great cinema, and it leaves a lot of meaning, context and history out of the picture, but the...
by Jaana Woiceshyn | Sep 23, 2017 | ART
I recently heard a panel discussion by some accomplished professional artists about a variety of topics, ranging from the motivation to paint to the creative process to commercial success. It made me think of parallels between art and business and the role of...
by Scott Holleran | Jun 5, 2017 | ART, MOVIES
When a major movie studio paid a young artist over $17 million for his movie about a slave who planned and led a bloody rebellion, actor, co-writer and director Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation became the talk of Hollywood. Epic, new dramatizations of American...
by The New Romanticist | Jun 1, 2017 | ART
Dear Artist: I urge you to consider this argument for the dissolution of the National Endowment for the Arts. The United States was founded on the principle of individual rights: life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Everyone has a right to pursue the...
by Ifat Glassman | Oct 31, 2016 | ART
A bit about my recent illustrations of scenes from The Fountainhead. I’m sharing the images one by one with their stories attached, and also sharing this in order to explain a bit about the experience of drawing them. OK so I’ll start describing it all by...
by Scott Holleran | Jul 4, 2013 | ART
The American city that comes to mind at the mention of Ayn Rand is probably not Chicago, a metropolis one might associate with other bestselling writers and authors, such as Studs Terkel, Carl Sandburg or even the current U.S. president, Barack Obama, whose philosophy...
