Tag: art

Superman Is About the Anti-War Vibe Shift

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Superman has always been about politics. The superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, originally wrote the character as a rebuke to Nazi racial ideology. The Kryptonian boy emigrated from his homeland in a way that paralleled the Jewish experience and became the greatest defender of “truth, justice, and the American way.”

So it’s no surprise that audiences have been trying to figure out the political message in the latest Superman movie. After all, the backdrop of the film is a war between the fictional nations of Boravia and Jarhanpur that Superman is trying to stop.

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Supervillains used to be foreign enemies. Now the villain is a defense contractor who wants to start a regime change war.”

https://reason.com/2025/07/18/superman-is-about-the-anti-war-vibe-shift/

‘Completely Unworkable’: Sculpture Experts Say Trump’s $34 Million Statue Garden Has Major Problems

Posted on by Lone Candle

“big problem with Donald Trump’s signature plan to create a National Garden of American Heroes. And, for once, it has nothing to do with culture-war bickering about just who should be included in the national statue display.

Instead, artists, curators and critics who have reviewed the recent request for proposals have a more practical worry: America doesn’t have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen on Trump’s speedy timeline.”

We do need a badass national statue garden, but Trump shouldn’t be in charge of it. It should be based on bipartisan agreed upon heroes.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/31/trump-sculpture-garden-american-heroes-china-00372297