Yes, but is it art?

(Apologies to Paige, who has her "Is it art?" project, but I did love the title.)

Last weekend, HJ77 and I went to the RISD Museum of Art.

While there, we saw this:



The final resting place of a Roman slave named Delicatus Saturnina.



This upset me, much like mummies, sarcophagi, and other funerary artifacts bother me. Why?

Because they do not belong in museums. These are sacred objects and to put them on display as "works of art" or "works of note" is profane.

Some people, like HJ77, have told me that "at least these people are remembered".

No, they aren't Look at the exhibit description. You have to go looking for the name of the deceased. The name should be featured, not buried. The dead deserve better.

Ask yourself, does your museum have the relics of the dead on display? Do they belong there?

Book Recommendations

These are three of the books that I have read recently. I thoroughly recommend them all. (There have been others and it is best if I speak not of them, however, I will give a hint about a book I did not like. The book is about a guy with a name like Jteve Sobs.)

11/22/63 (NY Times Review)

The Year After the Flood (NY Times Review)

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (NY Times Review)

Books make a great gift and buy from a local independent book store.

Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear

Chunn's most recent painting series, Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, on which she has worked since 2004, focuses on the terrorism crisis in America and the panic it perpetuates. This theme was similarly depicted in her 9/11 piece from 2002-2004.
From Wikipedia
RISD Exhibition Page

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These things make me happy: art and commerce, bread, wine, & books.

To the victor!

Isn't this beautiful?

Clash of the Titans

Yeah, I know...but I had to.