Motherhood, as you understand and honor it, is passé. Outmoded. It has faded into a quant bit of Americana, an artifact of folklore like Johnny Appleseed or Aunt Jemima. That is the undisquised message of the Museum of Motherhood (MOM), established this past January on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Following the lead of “museums” of contemporary art, MOM exists neither to preserve nor conserve an iota of cultural heritage. It obtains exclusively to promote a product. In this case, the article on display is a stake through the heart of our “cultural fairy tale” of what constitutes a family. Continue Reading

Mother’s Day Looms

Maureen Mullarkey

May 7, 2013

Here it comes. Truth to tell, I do not like Mother’s Day. It is a mawkish, manufactured holiday—a counterfeit tradition like Kwanza. buy fildena online https://latinohealthaccess.org/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/inc/php/fildena.html no prescription But now that it is upon us, women might as well make the most of it.buy vardenafil online https://www.mobleymd.com/wp-content/languages/new/vardenafil.html no prescription This is the day to milk what remains of filial guilt for all it is worth. Lay it on thick, sisters. Get the jump on neglectful, inattentive offspring.buy levitra online https://www.mobleymd.com/wp-content/languages/new/levitra.html no prescription Do not wait for your begets to send the usual Mother’s Day boilerplate from the greeting card industry. Continue Reading

William Meyers’ Street Photography

Maureen Mullarkey

May 4, 2013

The eye never has enough of seeing. Ecclessiastes 1:8 What is the point of having a weblog if I can’t talk about things I like? One of them is the photography of William Meyers. He was my colleague on the culture desk of The New York Sun during its balmy years as a print publication . He writes on photography now for The Wall Street Journal. You might well have read his commentaries but you have not seen his own approach to the craft he observes. Continue Reading

Modernism: An Apologia

Maureen Mullarkey

May 1, 2013

Modernism in the arts is an indefinite term. Like fascism , the word gets bandied about despite the absence of any firm idea of what it means. Even the editors of Modernism: 1890-1930 , a widely used text, fell back on this:

The name [i.e. modernism] is clear; the nature of the movement or movements … is much less so. And equally unclear is the status of the stylistic claim we are making. We have noted that few ages have been more multiple, more promiscuous in artistic style; to distil from the multiplicity an overall style or mannerism is a difficult, perhaps even an impossible task.buy

Biking in the Buff

Maureen Mullarkey

April 28, 2013

Have you been following the annual World Naked Bike Ride?buy finasteride online https://www.mobleymd.com/wp-content/languages/new/finasteride.html no prescription A moveable feast, it has been going for some years now in various cities around the fossil-fuel-consuming world. Morally sensitive bikers bare all in protest against Big Oil, the global injustices of energy dependence, the horrors of drilling, demon auto, bad driving and everything else that ravages our planet. At the same time, it strikes a blow for “body freedom” against the repressive forces of Big Clothing. Continue Reading

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