by Joseph A. Hazani September 9, 2022
Eran Barnea presents us a confrontation of vanity in his welcomed exhibition as part of the Fall Reception at TAG Gallery. His aim at representing, though certainly in a mischievous manner, the haloed self-gratification of personalities creating their own electromagnetic vortices of grandeur, requires one to openly examine the health of such a now normative occupancy in so many people’s lives....
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by Joseph A. Hazani September 7, 2022
“War is hell,” a helicopter gunner answers matter-of-factly to a combat reporter as he finishes mowing down innocent Vietnamese farmers. It is an ugly truth that the conditions of survival, when coordinated at such massive industrial scales, creates a moment in American History which has been canonized by Filmmakers of great renown. In Mr. Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, we have a....
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by Joseph A. Hazani September 2, 2022
Mr. Jimmy Edgar introduces to us digital art forms which appropriately generate a positive critique of digital art itself at the Non-fungible token (NFT) art gallery Vellum LA. The question of eternity is raised when work that is purposefully commercial ergo transactional is contemporaneously celebrated; when not the aim of permanent goodness is being achieved but temporary gratification,....
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