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  • Paiting of Jolie draws notice

    01/07/2007 4:44:09 AM PST · by grjr21 · 73 replies · 3,292+ views
    Yahoo news ^ | 1/5/2007 | MARTHA WAGGONER
    A North Carolina artist intrigued by the public obsession with celebrity has found herself feeding that obsession with a painting of actress Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary hovering over a Wal-Mart check-out line. Kate Kretz has painted for 20 years but none of her previous work has garnered the attention given "Blessed Art Thou," showing this weekend at Art Miami, an annual exposition of modern and contemporary art. The painting has gotten much attention from celebrity web sites and blogs. Since the buzz started, the number of daily unique visitors to Kretz's own blog has jumped from an average...
  • BEING AVANT-GARDE IS SO COMMMONPLACE NOW

    09/03/2006 9:25:39 PM PDT · by neverdem · 50 replies · 1,227+ views
    NY Times via Kansas City Star ^ | Aug. 30, 2006 | David Brooks
    TATTOOS We now have to work under the assumption that every American has a tattoo. Whether we are at a formal dinner, at a professional luncheon, at a sales conference or arguing before the Supreme Court, we have to assume that everyone in the room is fully tatted up — that under each suit, dress or blouse, there is at least a set of angel wings, a barbed wire armband, a Chinese character or maybe even a fully inked body suit. We have to assume that any casual anti-tattoo remark will cause offense, even to those we least suspect of...