Using other people’s culture as aesthetic, commodifying it and selling it, packaging it away and manipulating it in a way that wasn’t the original intent, and stripping away its original meaning — it’s the hot word that seems to be everywhere on Twitter — cultural appropriation. Cancel culture follows right
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While art can be utilized in an infinite amount of ways, it is of highest importance when it causes disruption in societal norms. As you can imagine, the 60-by-40-inch art piece by Andres Serrano called Immersion (Piss Christ) infuriated the right-wing legislators during the time of the “culture wars.” The
We’ve all been targeted by scammers. I wish I were kidding when I say that—between starting and finishing this article—my bank’s fraud department contacted me to say that someone had gotten a hold of my credit card number (1). Whether it’s “This is the IRS calling, there is a problem
Every weekend I drive through the sleepy surf town of Encinitas, California. Amidst the cafes and bike riders lies a criminal work of art. The Surfing Madonna statue, as it has come to be known, in Encinitas is a controversial artwork that combines the image of the Virgin de Guadelupe
Absurdism, a philosophical belief, brought about by Albert Camus as a branch off from existentialism in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1955). Absurdism is belief rooted in the Universe being a place of absolute and purposeless chaos in which we cannot even pretend to control. Whereas the philosophy that
So I was driving home with my mom when a popular song came on the radio. Naturally, I started to sing it… “you got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere,”… and somehow my mom recognized the tune. I thought to myself there’s no way she’s up with
Teaching assistant. Attorney. Physician. Airline pilot. These are just four of the eight identities Frank Abagnale Jr. assumed between the ages of 15 to 21 years old. Now a security consultant and a lecturer for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Abagnale has been dubbed the “greatest con-artist of all time.”
Just before midnight on November 7th, 2018, a man walked into Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California with a handgun. Less than an hour later, 12 people were dead and multiple injured. Among the 12 victims, the youngest, was 18-year-old Pepperdine student Alaina Housley. In the months following
What qualifies as Art? A definition too narrow, and Great Works of history and today become excluded. A definition too broad, however, can begin to define everything as Art. Even with the right definition though, what is Art and what it is not is subject to what society as a
2020 has been a depressing year, to say the least. In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, our country now has more on their plates than ever. With so much disheartening and overwhelming news, many people across the country have begun to feel helpless, often resorting to rash measures. In