Archive for January, 2017

2017 is here . . .

Monday, January 30th, 2017

An update on my current exhibitions:

HAVE A SEAT: Chairs by Kentucky Artisans

NEW YEAR NEW ART

ORDER & CHAOS

Empress of Wings ~ John Andrew DixonDreams Aligned ~ a collaborative collage construction ~ Kentucky artists John Andrew Dixon and Robert Hugh HuntDiamonds in the Rough ~ a collage construction by John Andrew Dixon, Danville, Kentucky

It’s showtime, America . . .

Friday, January 27th, 2017

It occurs to me that if the Trump presidency is overly problematic, it can in many ways be transcended as an aberration, but Hillary Clinton was an embodiment of everything abhorrent in the existing political class, and that is why so many considered him the lesser of evils. This entire notion is beyond the typical progressive. There are times when things boil to a point more critical than political agendae. Things were due for a major disruption of the status quo. It looks like the new administration sees the first order of business to be a striking of as many blows as quickly as possible in the culture war (from political correctness to the distorted role of the media; from American exceptionalism to traditional constitutionalism). It will be interesting to watch the convulsions and to see if more good comes out of this than bad. I long for the viewpoints of Heston, Kemp, and Snow, but I’ll just have to think for myself and stay clear-headed about what is proving to be a very complex dynamic.