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Letter to Chronicles: On 'Saving Private Ryan'

• Chronicles
  March 1999 Roger D. McGrath
  ...great cinematography, action direction, and special effects. These are Spielberg's strengths-- and he might be the best in the business at them. Yet his weaknesses are many, and they may all be traced back to one: He does not seem to understand men or what it means to be a man.
  
  Web Posted: 03/22/99 02:47:04 PST Posted by: Pig's Eye

• Chronicles
  March 1999 Roger D. McGrath
  Do not underestimate the power of the industry. A recent survey found that only 12 percent of American teenagers can name Abraham Lincoln’s hometown, but 74 percent can name the town where cartoon character Bart Simpson lives.
  
  Web Posted: 03/22/99 00:15:51 PST Posted by: Pig's Eye

• Icon: A retrospective by the grand master of fantastic art, Frank Frazetta
  
  Web Posted: 12/27/98 21:58:03 PST Posted by: Mr. Thorne

• Conservative Arts
  12/23/98 Conservative Arts
  If you are in Belfast or nearby please respond in here! I am one of a group of artists that are going to be involved in a large event in Belfast late next year and a couple of us happen to be FReepers! I was hoping to find some Irish Freeps to meet when we get there.
  
  Web Posted: 12/23/98 12:17:28 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

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  Web Posted: 12/15/98 22:16:27 PST Posted by: Cultural Jihad

• Reuters
  12/12/98
  Someone else who has a low opinion of modern art...
  
  Web Posted: 12/12/98 11:09:53 PST Posted by: Mr. Thorne

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  Web Posted: 12/09/98 20:10:01 PST Posted by: Cultural Jihad

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  Web Posted: 12/08/98 21:46:44 PST Posted by: Cultural Jihad

• The Associated Press
  AP-NY-12-06-98 1229EST By RONALD POWERS
  Campaign buttons, those once ubiquitous artifacts of American politics, could be headed to the endangered species list. Buttons and similar doodads have been part of American politics from the start. The Smithsonian's collection includes brass coat buttons made to commemorate George Washington's first inauguration. Many political artifacts -- especially those associated with the early presidents -- celebrated, rather than promoted, the presidency.
  
  Web Posted: 12/06/98 10:08:43 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

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  Web Posted: 12/05/98 17:16:00 PST Posted by: Cultural Jihad

• The Conservative Arts Forum
  11/29/98 Conservative Arts
  LIBERAL-FREE ART NEWS AND VIEWS!! If you are a Conservative and you are an Artist , please say something in here about who you are and what you do and lets keep a dialogue open about news and issues facing Artists that dare rebel against the socialized arts. Or if you are just sick of the "arts and croissant" crowd and need a place to stomp and yell, "Vanity" is the order of the day here. "Human beings have two great weapons of non-violent resistance -- speech and art. And when one is forbidden, the other breaks out, sometimes in the most unexpected fashion."
  
  Web Posted: 11/29/98 02:59:15 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Agence France-Presse
  Friday November 20, 7:43 PM Conservative Arts
  TARASCON, France, Nov 20 (AFP) - French artist Pierre Pinoncelli was fined nearly 300,000 francs (53,500 dollars) on Friday for damaging a porcelain urinal that was the work of Marcel Duchamp, a figure of the early 20th century avant-garde artistic movement.
  
  Web Posted: 11/21/98 04:25:19 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Associated Press
  Thursday, November 19, 1998; 1:30 p.m. EST By Sue Leeman
  LONDON (AP) -- British designer Anthony Symonds was downing champagne at a London Fashion Week party this fall when thieves broke into his workroom and made off with $48,000 worth of drawings and finished pieces. Symonds was the sixth designer to be robbed since April -- and fashion cognoscenti fear he won't be the last. Similar thefts have been reported in New York and Milan. ...The council estimates Britain's fashion industry is now worth more than $27 billion annually, so the potential for profits is vast.
  
  Web Posted: 11/20/98 19:49:33 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Associated Press
  Friday, November 20, 1998; 12:00 a.m. EST By Jennifer Brown
  In the Middle Ages, monks labored with quill pens and parchment paper to transcribe manuscripts. Today, monastics again are preserving our collective memory with the tools of the time -- a keyboard and mouse.
  
  Web Posted: 11/20/98 19:41:36 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Associated Press
  Thursday, November 19, 1998; 9:37 a.m. EST By Beth Gardiner
  NEW YORK (AP) -- United Nations diplomats are accustomed to arguing over national borders, chemical weapons, debt relief. This time, the debate is over an even more sensitive question: Does size matter? There were scattered giggles in the U.N. sculpture garden Wednesday when Secretary-General Kofi Annan dedicated a statue of an elephant some found a bit too anatomically correct. (Republicans quick to point out the large phallused mammal is their party's symbol for a reason, but cautions they prefer to be known for their brains.)
  
  Web Posted: 11/20/98 19:26:54 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Assoc. Press
  Thursday, November 19, 1998; 6:02 p.m. Conservative Arts
  BIG>RIEHEN, Switzerland (AP) -- Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have wrapped the Reichstag in Germany and 11 islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with miles of fabric. Now, they're turning their attention to 163 trees. ``Each tree has its own personality.''. Trees unavailable for comment on tasteless display.
  
  Web Posted: 11/20/98 19:16:15 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Associated Press
  Friday, November 20, 1998; 2:36 p.m. EST Conservative Arts
  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Unions representing film and television actors are entertaining the idea of a merger. The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Friday mailed ballots to their combined 123,000 members for a referendum on a combination of the two groups. Charlton Heston, who opposes the proposed merger, led fellow actors in a protest outside SAG headquarters Thursday.
  
  Web Posted: 11/20/98 19:01:03 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Associated Press
  Tuesday, November 17, 1998; 5:19 a.m. EST Conservative Arts
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Thieves have stolen an Aboriginal rock carving believed to be 3000 years old from a remote site on the coast of Tasmania.The 17-inch artwork, chiseled out of a rock face, disappeared from a secret place last week. Newt Gingrich is not being blamed for this desecration, yet.
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 14:49:03 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Associated Press
  Friday, November 13, 1998; 7:21 p.m. EST Conservative Arts
  GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- An American Indian group on Friday pleaded for the return of a sacred warrior shirt, believed recovered from the 1890 Wounded Knee battlefield and now on display in Scotland. The ``ghost'' shirt, which Sioux Indian fighters believed would protect them in battle, is on display at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery. It is said to be stained with the blood of a slain warrior.
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 14:38:39 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Reuters
  4.13 p.m. ET (2113 GMT) November 15, 1998 Conservative Arts
  Al Hirschfeld abhors the spotlight, a strange aversion for a man who has spent more nights at the theater than he has at home during his 95 years. For nearly three-quarters of a century, the artist has captured Broadway's most famous faces and the drama and humor of the theater from his seat in the audience. It began in 1926 with a doodle.
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 14:29:19 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Reuters
  12.06 p.m. ET (1706 GMT) October 29, 1998 Conservative Arts
  An Indian artist has painted the White House in blue, saying the new color fits with President Bill Clinton's intimate encounters with Monica Lewinsky. "It (White House) now resembles a place of pornographic activities. That is why I have colored the White House in blue in my painting," Mohsin Shaikh told Reuters.
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 14:17:53 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Reuters Wire
  10:10 a.m. ET (1511 GMT) November 17, 1998 Conservative Arts
  Laser beams are not typically compared to a paint brush or a sculptor's chisel by the public, but once again there's something new under the sun. Michael Rees, a digital artist, has made us of "rapid prototyping'' to create 3D art, now on display in Gotham's Central Fine Arts Gallery (http://www.centralfinearts.com).
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 14:12:36 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Associated Press
  Tuesday, November 10, 1998; 7:29 a.m. EST Some Reporter Person Of Non-Specific Flesh Tone
  TOKYO (AP) -- Complaints from consumer groups and teachers have forced Japan's top crayon-maker to change the name of its ``skin color'' crayon to ``pale orange.'' "...we want children to learn to mix different colors freely.''
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 02:23:38 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Associated Press
  Thursday, November 12, 1998; 12:06 p.m. EST By David Dishneau
  In a kinder world, Frank Feather's grave would be marked with a sturdy chunk of walnut boldly carved with his name, his dates and a four-petaled flower.All Feather wanted as he restlessly roamed the Maryland-Pennsylvania border in the early 1900s was a meal and a barn in which to sleep -- and carve. Forty-seven years after his death, his fanciful woodwork fetches big bucks -- up to $5,000 for the distinctive canes, spoons and other household items he sold for a few dollars or offered his hosts as payment.
  
  Web Posted: 11/17/98 02:05:22 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• PJ's Comix
  November 16, 1998 P.J. Gladnick
  Web Posted: 11/16/98 17:59:31 PST Posted by: PJ-Comix

• The Conservative Arts Gallery
  11/16/98 By Conservative Arts
  Here is a project and the accompanying speech/paper that I did for a 20th Century Art Class I took in college a "few" years ago. I spoke of this to a few people here so I thought I would post it. The goal of the assignment was to create art in the style of a 20th century artist and justify it, a "Stylistic Interpretation Project". While many artists were spending weeks on sculptures, ancostics, photo experimentation...etc., I was plotting (and sleeping late). I learned conservatism from Rush Limbaugh like so many out there, and I was always taken with his ability to illustrate the absurd, by being absurd. I always felt the Conceptual Art movement (Marcel Duchamp) was to the art world, what Rush is to Politics.
  
  Web Posted: 11/16/98 02:23:29 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Special to The Washington Post
  Friday, November 13, 1998; Page N67 By Mary Quattlebaum
  DO YOUR children like draping your walls with their latest artistic creations? Or donning tights and flitting like Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy? If so, "Degas and the Little Dancer," an exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art, should be a big draw. Throughout the exhibit, young visitors can see how an artist develops a style and theme over time, since "Little Dancer" is shown with 45 related Degas works -- paintings, sculptures, pastels, prints and drawings -- all focused on the ballet world that so intrigued him.
  
  Web Posted: 11/15/98 03:46:12 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Associated Press
  Friday November 13 11:09 AM ET By RICHARD PYLE
  A self-portrait by graffiti-artist-turned-painter Jean-Michel Basquiat fetched $3.3 million - more than five times what experts predicted - in a surprising start to New York's art auction season.
  
  Web Posted: 11/14/98 23:01:28 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Los Angeles Times
  Excerpts reprinted from 1997 By Adrienne Rich
  The invitation from the White House came by telephone on July 3, just before the national holiday, a time of public contention about the relationship of government to the arts. After several years' erosion of arts funding and hostile propaganda from the religious right and the Republican Congress, the House vote to end the National Endowment for the Arts was looming. That vote would break as news on July 10; my refusal of the National Medal for the Arts would run as a sidebar story in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
  
  Web Posted: 11/13/98 18:09:46 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Washington Post Company
  Thursday, November 12, 1998 By Eve Zibart
  Human beings have two great weapons of non-violent resistance -- speech and art. And when one is forbidden, the other breaks out, sometimes in the most unexpected fashion.Over the past 20 years, many rug makers from Afghanistan, virtually all of them women, have been waging a subtle but powerful political protest movement by incorporating the images of war into their weavings.
  
  Web Posted: 11/13/98 07:35:26 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• SOURCE: The Frick Art Museum
  Thursday November 12, 8:03 am Eastern Time PRNewswire
  William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) was the first American-born artist to achieve widespread fame for his paintings of ``ordinary people leading ordinary lives.'' Yankee farmers, rustic dancers, country musicians, and mischievous schoolboys animate Mount's work with a warm familiarity that belies the artist's veiled social commentary and sly political satire. Sixty of Mount's oil paintings and preparatory sketches have been assembled in the colorful exhibition William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life, at The Frick Art Museum from Nov. 13 to Jan. 10. (Mount ... paved the way for artists as varied as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Horace Pippin and Norman Rockwell)
  
  Web Posted: 11/13/98 06:14:51 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• Reuters
  Thursday November 12 10:55 AM ET
  Spain's Queen Sofia inaugurated a specially built passageway in a 16th century monastery which allows women to see nearly a dozen Goya frescos for the first time...Before the passageway was built...Women could only view the artwork, which depicts scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary, after receiving special papal approval. Only three women had been granted that permission.
  
  Web Posted: 11/13/98 06:02:55 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• AP
  Thursday November 12 12:09 PM ET By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) - William J. Leurs, a former diplomat who has served as president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1986, has been selected to head the United Nations Association of the USA.
  
  Web Posted: 11/13/98 05:34:29 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• PJ's Comix
  November 9, 1998 P.J. Gladnick
  Web Posted: 11/12/98 17:03:31 PST Posted by: PJ-Comix

• AP Breaking
  For Release 9:15 a.m. EST 11/10/98 Anonomous Liberal AP 'Reporter'
  ``In this age of information and when our economy is increasingly built on generating ideas, it is a serious mistake to shortchange our children's instruction in the arts,'' Education Secretary Richard W. Riley said in a statement. ...Many schools, especially those in cash-strappped big-city districts, have had to cut back spending on arts classes as their tax bases have shrunk, and as spending on areas like computers and special education have taken up larger parts of their budgets.
  
  Web Posted: 11/10/98 03:25:21 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Washington Post
  Sunday, November 8, 1998 By Al Kamen
  President Ronald Reagan may have eclipsed George Washington by having his name at the airport for the nation's capital, but the father of our country remains a favorite among senior government officials taking advantage of one of this town's great perks -- borrowing artwork from the National Gallery of Art.
  
  Web Posted: 11/09/98 15:02:28 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• http://jollyroger.com/beaconway/grungeservative.html
  Posted here: 11/9 Becket Knottingham
  "Members of my generation will be rewarded with fame and vast fortunes for conforming to liberal artistic standards and destroying themselves with heroin, but if we write a rhyming love sonnet, we will be kicked out of class by a feminist."
  
  Web Posted: 11/09/98 04:51:43 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Conservative Art Gallery
  11/6/98 Conservative Arts
  The National Endowment For the Arts (NEA): From a Conservative Artist's Point Of View
  
  Web Posted: 11/06/98 03:03:46 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Conservative Art Gallery
  11/5/98 Conservative Arts
  If you are a Conservative and you are an Artist , please say something in here about who you are and what you do and lets keep a dialogue open about news and issues facing Artists that dare rebel against the socialized arts.
  
  Web Posted: 11/05/98 16:15:31 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts

• The Associated Press
  11/5/98 By HUGH A. MULLIGAN
  ARLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Can it be that America's most popular painter [Norman Rockwell] at last is being ushered into the pantheon of the fine arts?
  
  Web Posted: 11/05/98 15:21:48 PST Posted by: Conservative Arts