American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Please Turn To The Left

This Wednesday Jose Picayo is having a gallery opening at the Robin Rice Gallery at 325 West 11th St from 5:30pm until 8:30pm. I recommend you to all stop through and check out his work. Mug Shots is a set of 8″x10″ Polaroids (an AmericanMadness format favorite) he shot each of his subjects and [...]

Art Monday

This makes the third week in a row we have done our art post. Normally we send you to some images of statues or paintings or photos. This week, first up we have something a little different.
We start with Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps. The 21 Steps is the first in a project by six [...]

A Little More Satisfaction

Elvis has been gone for a while. Having died almost 30 years ago you wouldn’t exactly expect to see new pictures of him popping up anywhere. Except that is exactly what’s going on.
This isn’t some vast conspiracy theory. No Elvis spottings at Wal-mart or descending from a UFO, but rather photos taken by George Kalinsky [...]

Art Monday

As I go back through what I have marked up the past week to post here, things that have caught my eye and such, it is looking like I will have a weekly post of art that has caught my eye from the previous week. We’ll see if I can turn this into a regular, [...]

Clearly It’s A Sea Pig

Well, that is one of the many creatures found off the coast of Antarctica during a survey done by a team of New Zealand scientists during the beginning of this year.
The sea pig (in her hand on the right) is a member of the sea cucumber family and is just one of the “Giant, Unknown [...]

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