Nostalgia interrupted: The paintings of David Lyle
☛ David Lyle: “Family Time”, oil on panel, 30” x 34”, 2011. © 2012 David Lyle. David Lyle was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1971. He currently lives and works in downtown Manhattan. From his official bio page: David Lyle acts as both curator and painter, sifting through a vast array of lost snapshots from […]
“Like Rome—conqueror of its own people” (The Pale King, David Foster Wallace)
‘There’s something very interesting about civics and selfishness, and we get to ride the crest of it. Here in the US, we expect government and law to be our conscience. Our superego, you could say. It has something to do with liberal individualism, and something to do with capitalism, but I don’t understand much of […]
Community without power?
☛ Boston.com / The Big Picture: “A banner reads ‘yes to the society no to the power’ during a rally against plans for new austerity measures, in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 15, 2011. A 24-hour strike by Greece’s largest labor unions was to cripple public services, as the Socialist government began a legislative battle to push […]
