by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_430133" align="alignright" width="246" caption="Rembrandt's actual "The Return of the Prodigal Son""][/caption] "I must study politics and war, that my sons may study mathematics and philosophy … in more…
by Marisa Martin -- Celebrity model Miss Beazley has been storming the art scene lately, claiming more than her share of the spotlight in major social and media outlets. Her quirky looks more…
by Marisa Martin -- "There are more things in heaven and earth," marveled Shakespeare's Hamlet, "than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Putting aside phantoms and bloody fingers for a moment, the more…
by Marisa Martin -- Literature has roused men to war, women to emancipation and the world to collectively detest slavery. But is one novel responsible for a sea of suicides? In 1960 more…
by Marisa Martin -- Classic art outlives its creator, its era and its original audience – in that sense it is immortal. When T.S. Eliot was the darling of Anglo-American literary set, more…
by Marisa Martin -- EDITOR'S NOTE: Though based on actual events, portions of this column are dramatized to fit speculation. "For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie more…
by Marisa Martin -- What is it? What does it mean? These are possibly the most irritating questions artists encounter from viewers, especially if they work with some type of abstraction. Humans more…
by Marisa Martin -- "All warfare is based on deception," Sun Tsu sagely noted years ago, and no one has yet proved him wrong. Centuries before Sun Tzu plotted for various emperors, more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_384781" align="alignright" width="156" caption="Jose Clemente Orozco"][/caption] I've been spending a little time far south of the border in a land of mariachi bands, fake designer goods, Zapatistas more…
by Marisa Martin -- An obscure news item from Egypt caught my eye a few weeks back – yet another flowering bud from the fragrant "Arab Spring." It seems that one more more…
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