Art
What is art?
Atlas Shrugged - The meaning and the movie
by Evan Mazur (libertarian)
Published: April 16, 2011
Atlas Shrugged has finally been released as a movie. Who is John Galt and how will movie-goers react?
How Is Art an Example of Government Waste?
by Bill Gee (centrist)
Published: January 31, 2011
In its effort to cut the National Deficit, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has a big, red bull's eye painted on its back, but will eliminating this program end up doing more harm than good to our national character and our future?
Aficionados of Ostentation
by John Kozy (liberal)
Published: February 7, 2010
Do those who buy the paintings of long dead artists and fund buildings for artistic performances do so because they truly love the arts or because they want to boast, "Look what I can afford to do!"? There was a time when wealth supported artists. That practice died out sometime after the sixteenth century. What goes on today borders on the absurd. While huge amounts of money are being spent, the artists themselves are being neglected. This is not love of art for art's sake; it's merely benefactor aggrandizement.
A Tale of Two Novels
by creator (libertarian)
Published: December 30, 2009
The modern American Liberty Movement is sorely in need of artists to champion the cause. Here are two excellent examples.
Recollecting Mahatma Gandhi's work
by Kamala Sarup (centrist)
Published: September 18, 2008
My memories of Mahatma Gandhi are a permanent theme in my life; they are immortal. For me, memory don't look for profit. My memory seems sweet.
Remembering A Nepali Woman Writer Parijat
by Kamala Sarup (centrist)
Published: September 17, 2008
I had known all about Parijat and by knowing such things also that I had tried to take myself near to her.
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