NYC'S Subway POETRY IN MOTION series

Saw this poem on the shuttle from grand central to times square today... loved it!! had to share it !

"Ragtime"

by Kevin Young

Like hot food

I love you

like warm

bread & cold

cuts, butter

sammiches

or, days later, after

Thanksgiving

when I want

whatever’s left

New Blog Name: SevenSeven

Just to let you know-- the blog has a new name ( my birthday, basically):  SevenSeven.

one of my sculptures from the 1990's

A Fine, bad, thing....

      I've encountered so much confusion regarding fine and applied art. A friend of mine suggested i re-read the college class Heidegger discourse "Origin of the Work of Art"  after we happened upon Van Gogh's  "Shoes" at the MET.

The myriad questions re-reading this treatise promulgated started my intellectual curiosity a-brewin'........

here are some of the art pieces I began to examine, both cognitively and affectively.  Can fine art be bad? Can applied art be good? What is art? Does it matter that a Koons 'Balloon Dog' fetches 20 million (give or take) at auction when there are homeless, hungry, and jobless people out there??