Tag Archives: modern art

American Juggalo

By Mark | October 1, 2011

Last night, I couldn’t sleep due to all of the coughing, so I curled up in bed with my laptop and watched New York filmmaker Sean Dunne’s short documentary piece on Juggalo culture, entitled American Juggalo. As we’ve had several conversations here in the past on the clown-faced disciples of Detroit’s ICP, I thought that […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged abstract art, academia, American Juggalo, blood and soil, Blut und Boden, cults, Degenerate Art, down with the clown, Entartete Kunst, family love, Gathering of the Juggalos, ICP, illegal art, Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos, McCarthyism, Sean Dunne, Shaggy 2 Dope, Stephen Tonsor, Tila Tequila, Tom Green, Vincent van Gogh, Volent J, woop woop | 22 Comments

The CIA is apparently responsible for modern art

By Mark | November 1, 2010

I’d wanted to write about something else tonight, but then I stumbled across this article in the Guardian on the CIA’s role in the rise of modern art and felt as though I had to pass it along… Here’s a clip: …Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Observations | Also tagged Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Expressionist, CIA, Cold War, Congress for Cultural Freedom, de Kooning, Encounter, Franz Liebkind, International Organisations Division, Leo Bloom, long leash, Max Bialystock, Motherwell, narchic avant-garde, ONCE, patrons of the arts, Piss Christ, Pollock, Propaganda Assets Inventory, Soviet Union, Stephen Spender, The Producers, Yakov Smirnoff | 4 Comments

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