A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Zuni have used clay figures for thousands of years. Buddhists; mandalas. A clinical psychologists may suggest a candle. Christians may use the cross. Cultures from around the globe and throughout history…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “History is more or less bunk.” – Henry Ford I lost my portable hard drive the other day. The strange thing is, it really didn’t matter. Even a few years ago, if…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I have a question for you about child rearing: What do you do about a child who is behaving badly just for the attention? You don’t want to acknowledge the behavior because…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman A MOMA Novella Chapter 1: The Opening They went to museum to have fun, but it turned out the museum completely sucked. “Free tickets and the members only opening? How could…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Listen carefully. We are a group of individuals that represent a small faction of dissenters. At this time, we have your ability to think in our possession. Steve Aishman Photography Steve Aishman…
By Steve Aishman I watched a documentary on monkeys the other day. During the course of the documentary, scientists taped a group of monkeys interacting and noted the hierarchy that developed in their society. The scientists then classified each monkey according…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I love eavesdropping at the gym. There must be something about the testosterone or the endorphins at the gym that acts like truth serum. Suddenly, when pushed to a point of exhaustion,…
By Steve Aishman It seems to me that a lot of Boston area artists are unaware that the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is one of Boston’s great venues that is actively working on displaying contemporary artwork made by local artists.…
By STEVE AISHMAN This last First Friday in Boston had a different air about it. For me it was like watching a family member move to Beijing or having a last drink with a co-worker before they move on to…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article “Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Some palindromes: Live Evil Ah, Satan sees Natasha Drat Saddam, a mad dastard! Cain: a maniac. No devil lived on. Not so, Boston. Did Joe kill like O.J. did? Evil did I dwell; lewd…
By STEVE AISHMAN Ever try to explain a joke to someone? Confucius say he who makes love in grass, gets piece on earth. Confucius say war does not determine who’s right, war determines who’s left. Confucius say it take many…
By STEVE AISHMAN Did you know that modern art has actually been used to torture prisoners? (said the guy standing next to me at the Jasper Johns’ exhibit). Whatever, if you don’t like the painting, just don’t look at it…
By STEVE AISHMAN The 2008 Whitney Biennial I was standing in a gallery the other day when someone walked up to me and said I had to move. He seemed very excited, so I did. He said, “No, no, no,…
By STEVE AISHMAN Is this art I’m seeing excellent or awful? In an ongoing quest to develop a system to quantify responses to art, Professor Steve Aishman has developed a new theory, Aesthetic Quantum Ontology, which intersects aesthetics with quantum…
By STEVE AISHMAN “The modernist age, of “one way, one truth, one city,” is dead and gone. The postmodernist age of “anything goes” is on the way out. Reason can take us a long way, but it has limits. Let…
By STEVE AISHMAN So we all know about grazers. They are the people who show up at openings just for the food. They’re out at every event and seem to never look at the art, but always have a mouth…
By STEVE AISHMAN So I admit it: I listen to metal. Not the derivative, inauthentic pop-rock that tries to co-opt metal’s brute force by copying its base-line. I listen to the kind of metal can’t be downloaded to the most…
By STEVE AISHMAN “The human brain is a cultural artifact.” –Timothy Taylor Have you ever been standing at the baggage claim watching the luggage go around and you swear that every piece of luggage that comes around looks like yours?…
By STEVE AISHMAN Based on the Cosmic Calendar, Prof. Steve Aishman has prepared his astrological predictions for people going to Miami Basel 2007. Find your astrological sign and have your future revealed to you! • ♁ The Collector: You will…