Art & Commodity

Attendance Expressed, Tales to Tell

Director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Bernau-based Bauhaus School was pressured to close in 1933—un-German thought some homely Nazis—after it had already existed in Weimar

Dyna Modoh Consumes Me

The artist calls what she does “mixmedia expression rooted in recovery.” https://twitter.com/dynamodoh/status/1632078549606711300?s=20 I want more and more. https://twitter.com/ktyushaobasanjo/status/1449900065905119232?s=20 I found her on Twitter, and then

Happy Miles Davis Day

A Twitter personality who I hadn’t known before today reminded me of the late Miles Davis’ birthday…on May 26th. That’s a big deal for me. Thank

Grandfather [warrior of the north] by Paul Tompkins

J. E. H. MacDonald’s Aurora, Georgian Bay (1931) was selected to frame and present Harold Paul “Pork” Tompkins’ poem Grandfather. A similar, not the same,

Therapy, Part 1

Don’t let me say Dad was a drunk Primarily he was a bright man Math, science and history He’d have learned engineering as a kid

Strange This by Paul Tompkins

To love a friend Is to lose a friend Seems strange this way When lovers can not be friends Friends cannot be lovers What a

It’s a Good Friday

Life has been good to me I have to admit, even though it didn’t appear like it was going to end up that way in

The Unjust Society: 1975 Evaluation Review

The Baby Boom and Generation X eras of public school textbook selection in Canada were massively impacted by panel majority recommendations being refused by government.

Snow is White

“The Right to Live and Die,” a Covertly Censored Textbook

Make it make sense. One of Canada’s many covertly censored textbooks is titled The Right to Live and Die, an edited volume by John Eisenberg and