Contemporary art Archives : Professor Carol

The Singapore Art Museum

January 8, 2022April 13, 2016 by Professor Carol

I won’t claim the ranching town of Bowie, Texas to be the cultural center of the universe, but it is where we first met Leng Tshua, Chief Executive Officer of the contemporary Singapore Art Museum (SAM). He was visiting a former colleague who happens to be … Read more

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Jonathan Turley, The Fight Over Parental Rights Just Got Primal. “Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to ‘experts’ on rearing our children.”

Roger Kimball, What the Right Gets Wrong About Art. “Why do so many people feel that if something is regarded as art, they ‘have to go along with it,’ no matter how offensive, foolish, or corrosive it might be?“

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”