BillHeise | October 25, 2011
I’ve been working on my first scholarly book on Spenser’s Book of Holinesse in his six book (and still uncompleted) Faerie Queene (I know; how cool am I?). I am going to publish this serious academic work before I publish my already completed satire on Art in the Age of Talk Radio, because in my [...]
BillHeise | October 12, 2011
This morning, I found out that Mischa Barton has taken up Lady Gaga’s meat crusade in her latest photo shoot with Tyler Shields. In a previous article on that subject, I had found Lady Gaga to have been engaging in a tradition that has a long tail. Mischa is continuing this tradition in her latest [...]
BillHeise | September 29, 2011
I was talking the other day about how no one ever asks me how I make money in the stock market, while everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line where I am either conservative of liberal. According to this model, everyone initially agrees that I make good [...]
BillHeise | November 25, 2010
In an age that is still in many ways dominated by the revolution in thought and behavior of the 1960s, I thought it was perhaps appropriate that Joan Baez fell out of her tree house this week. A lesser man than me would gloat that perhaps Ms. Baez was being a little too optimistic when [...]
BillHeise | October 8, 2010
I found this on the web today. It’s about an artist who’s put up a sculpture in front of the Milan stock exchange. Milan city council has extended the display of a controversial new sculpture by Italy’s most famous living artist, Maurizio Cattelan. The sculpture – officially titled L.O.V.E. but popularly known as The Middle [...]
BillHeise | July 5, 2010
Okay so I tried to fulfill promises I made during the second week of June, and I failed. So I decided that I would get the last two promises I made to my readers fulfilled in the month of June. And once again, I failed. So the lesson for me is not to promise anything [...]
BillHeise | June 12, 2010
I’ve been working my way through the silent film era in Germany recently, and I have to admit that silent film is one of those things that takes getting used to. The pictures are often grainy (1920’s Golem), the stories are often abbreviated (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), and scenes take far too long to [...]
BillHeise | June 11, 2010
Steiglitz was one of the innovators of the Photo-Secession Group, which gave rise to a school of its own. Affected by the found object, cubist painting style, and other modern art developments, he replaced the ‘objective’ experience with a ‘subjective’ experience at the center of photography. But he was an innovator. And just like most [...]
BillHeise | June 11, 2010
Okay, I missed a day. Sorry readers. But I have yesterday’s post today. I’ve been reading Brad Gooch’s City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara. Frank was a member of the New York School of poetry. After serving in WWII (the Big One), he availed himself of veteran’s assistance and went to Harvard. [...]
BillHeise | June 7, 2010
This is a video of Alfred Stieglitz, one of the most influential (if not the most) photographers of the Early Modern Age. Unlike sculpture and painting, which were also undergoing vast transformations at the time, photography was an entirely new medium. As you watch this video, you will notice that much early modern photography is [...]
