by John Feffer, Kyi May Kaung | Dec 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
Curved, feminine black lines of varying thickness traverse the picture plane. The colors are bright, the surfaces textured with marks like those made with a comb. Doves flying about and the white clothes of some of the figures are rendered with translucent layers of...
by Kyle Dargan, Melissa Tuckey | Dec 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
Pilot to Bombardier,are the boulevards burning?The out-of-Dodge roads? We feelstill heavy with payload,though smoke whispersof smoldering — of hamletsand metropolises aflame.Pilot to bombardier, I rememberkissing my wife in the hanger,remember you brushing the...
by John Feffer, Noor Iqbal | Oct 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
The opening scene of Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) comes as a shock to the seasoned Bollywood enthusiast. A montage of news reports flickers across the screen. Images from 9/11, the murder of Daniel Pearl, America’s invasion of Iraq, and the most recent sectarian...
by Kathy Engel, John Feffer | Oct 17, 2008 | War & Peace
Prelude We do fight terror with beauty. In Matagalpa, Nicaragua on a hillside mothers of fallen children threw doves on us as we walked into their Casa de Madres took each of us by the hand — twelve different U.S. women, led us to a monument surrounded by grass...
by John Feffer, Mark Vallen | Oct 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
When the painting “Abuse,” which depicts the torture of Iraqi prisoners by their U.S. jailers at the Abu Ghraib prison, first appeared at San Francisco’s Capobianco Gallery in May 2004, unknown assailants physically assaulted gallery owner Lori...
