Category: Visual Arts

  • Evidence: “Scientific” Photography and Its Discontents

    Evidence: “Scientific” Photography and Its Discontents

    Concluding a two-part survey, Omar Willey explores the use of photography and science as tools of ignorance.

  • The Smell of Realism

    The Smell of Realism

    Omar Willey on Courbet, the powder-fresh universe, and putting the terror back into modernism.

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    When the ringmaster calls our names, we’ll be the first ones to go to sleep. Stealing all our dreams. Dreams for sale. They sell ’em back to you. On with the Comics, start the parade!

  • Encounters with Anonymous: Loupe Back

    Encounters with Anonymous: Loupe Back

    Omar Willey returns to his musings on anonymous photographs and the problems of “art.”

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    The sun is up and there’s no one about, I get the paper and the Comics are out…I keep wondering, “Where did you get that blank (blank) expression on your face?”

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    I stock the shelves, I work the rows; the product’s all light up. If I could flip the switch, Sunday Comics, I could move us to the top. The numbers roll, it’s time to go, but never fast enough.

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    I saw my therapist; she thinks you are my magic sin. Oh, maybe she’s right! Well I’ll just read the Sunday Comics and purify again…Ooh, angels are fun, they’re so fun!

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    And I remember everything: Comics on a blue horizon; Sundays, your hand in mine. I remember the things you said…Said, “I’ll be a lady, wait through it all, be there to catch you, after the fall.”

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    On my dying day I read the Comics Sunday, I might be able to say: “You know I finally see things all your way.”

  • Sunday Comics

    Sunday Comics

    We. so tired of all the darkness in our lives. With no more angry words to say can come alive. Read the Sunday Comics and drive to the other side. You, babe, stepping out into the night.

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