The Museum of Peripheral Art
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Levitated Mass: The Story of Michael Heizer's Monolithic Sculpture

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by Drew Martin It is not every day you come across an hour and a half long film about one sculpture so I recently relished watching  Levit...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Life Itself: A Documentary About Robert Ebert, The Soldier of Cinema

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by Drew Martin Looking back at everything I watched as a kid on television, one of the show's I liked the most was Gene Siskel and Ro...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Rich Hill

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by Drew Martin I watch, read, and see a lot of things that I do not write posts about, despite what you might think based on the contents of...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Web Junkie: In the Real World Everybody is Fake

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by Drew Martin A distraught Chinese teenager who has been locked up in a military hospital for a boot camp-style rehab program is asked ...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

A Taste of Civilization

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by Drew Martin If you have been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and visited the 40,000-square-foot wing on the south s...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Whiplash: Perfect Timing

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by Drew Martin Last night I saw the brilliant film Whiplash about the demanding atmosphere of jazz musician students at the Shaffer Conserv...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Norwegian Would: Twin Sisters and F*ck For Forest

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by Drew Martin Perhaps I am just tuned in to this because of a long, record-cold winter in the Northeast but there seems to be a lot of Nor...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

A (3D) Model Teacher

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by Drew Martin Hands down, my favorite teacher of all time was Ann Hamilton, with whom I studied art at the University of California at S...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Printed Matter at the 80 WSE Gallery

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by Drew Martin I just ended my last post thinking about a 1930s hand-cranked press, which was relevant to politically active artists of ...

Black History Omitted: Peter Schjeldahl White Washes the Red Decade

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by Drew Martin After reading Peter Schjeldahl’s Jan 26 New Yorker article, Left Turns , on Jan 20, I decided to have a look at the show ...

Daily News Delivery Truck Gets Stuck in Snowbank Because of Low Readership!

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by Drew Martin It sounds like a cheap headline: Daily News Delivery Truck Gets Stuck in Snowbank Because of Low Readership! but here is ...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

George Takei: Beneficiary Of His Own Optimism

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by Drew Martin What do King George VI, Rodan , the Sulu Sea, and a gay and lesbian running club in California have in common? The answer ...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Opening a Can of Wormholes: Speaking to Your Children About the Future, As in Sci Fi

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by Drew Martin At a certain point in children’s lives, especially the teenage years, parents should sit down and talk to them about the f...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Not So Brave New World: A Cartoon Is Not Just A Cartoon

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by Drew Martin The murders in Paris last week and the fire bombing yesterday in Hamburg in reaction to profane cartoons published by newspap...
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