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The Corsair : SMC celebrates African American art

Bernard Kinsey (Right) shakes Mack Massey's hand (Left) after receiving a signed copy of the book with his father Bruce Massey (Center) at the African American Treasures Exhibit on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at the Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery. (Photo: David J. Hawkins/Corsair)

Ryan Sindon
February 20, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Top Stories

Just in time for Black History Month, Santa Monica College held an opening reception for ?African American Treasures: History and Art from the Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey? at the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery on Friday evening.

The collection is organized in chronological order from left to right, with each piece displaying an integral part of American history and its involvement with African Americans. The story of African American culture is told by using paintings, sculptures, illustrations, and historical documents.

Featured throughout the exhibit is a letter from Malcolm X to his editor, a letter from Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to his literary agent, an illustration named ?First Colored Senator and Representatives,? and many more historical documents and art pieces.

The pieces in the room show the visitor that history does not just exist in textbooks. There are many sketches, illustrations, sculptures, and paintings ranging from traditional landscapes to abstracts, all created by African American artists.

Professor Ron Davis, chair of the art department, described the collection as a ?global setting for art.?

Members of many different communities showed up to the opening. Among them were administrators, trustees, professors, SMC students, artists and Santa Monica citizens. Artists that were in the collection showed up to the opening as well.

?It?s important to get out into the local community and see the artwork,? said SMC student Heather Tijman, an art major.

SMC President and Superintendent Dr. Chui L. Tsang expressed the importance of the exhibit, calling it ?a rich and wonderful collection to help students learn about the rich history of America.?

Trustee Rob Rader called the exhibit ?a unique collection that needs to be seen.?

?The collection is both aesthetically and socially significant,? Rader said.

The Kinseys are a retired couple who reside in the neighboring Pacific Palisades. They are collectors of art and historical documents.

?I collect the art of the living, and my husband collects the art of the dead,? Shirley Kinsey said.

The Kinseys gave two tours of the gallery throughout the evening, and spent time describing the importance of each piece in the collection.

?African American history is American history,? Shirley Kinsey said. ?We need to learn more about each other?s culture as well as our own.?

Bernard and Shirley Kinsey will also be hosting a lecture at the Broad Stage titled ?The Kinsey Collection: Black History Explored Through Art and Legacy.? The lecture will go over ideas such as the myth of absence. The event will take place on Feb. 28 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. with a reception in the art gallery.

?African American Treasures: History and Art from the Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey? can be seen at the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery in the Performing Arts Center, located at 1310 11th St.

Gallery hours are from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. The exhibit will be at SMC until March 9.

Source: http://www.thecorsaironline.com/arts-entertainment/2013/02/20/smc-celebrates-african-american-art/

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Academy Awards: Oscar-Nominated Songs That Should Have Won ...

These Songs Were All Just Travelin' Thru

It?s happened to so many of us who devote all the days (and evenings) of our lives to watching the litany of awards shows that come our way this time of year: you?re rooting for your favorite to take the statue, but when the winner is announced another guy, gal, song, artist or act wins. And you want to scream, cry or take to drinking (we do all three) because you know in your gut that another song should have secured that prize. Happens all the time, right?

Well, Hollywood?s big movie awards are less than a week away, and we?re still obsessing over the music. As we mull over this year?s Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song, we can?t help but wonder about what should have been from Oscars past. Sure, they may get it right most of the time, but sometimes the Academy misses the mark (as it did often in the early 2000s). Below we look back at the last 15 years and make a case for five of our favorite Oscar-nominated songs that should have landed the little bald dude, but didn?t.

Should Have Won: ?I Don?t Want to Miss A Thing? from Armageddon, 1998

Since you can?t win an Oscar for being the Most Awful Movie of the Year (or Ever), you might as well get to compete in a few other categories. With all of director Michael Bay?s stars-and-stripes-waving-in-the-wind scenes and meticulously-choreographed, slow-motion, mid-America montages, it would have seemed downright un-American, we suppose, for Armageddon not get some stateside awards attention. So why not let an icon like Diane Warren (who wrote the music and the lyrics) walk away with a statuette for the schmaltzy ballad that happens to be the very best thing about this disastrous disaster flick? If you can get past the image of a young Ben Affleck parading animal crackers on Liv Tyler?s bare midriff and belly button (seriously) while Liv?s dad Steven Tyler sings to the seduction of his daughter on a prairie somewhere, you know you just love Warren?s song ? even if it is a love/hate relationship. Sometimes cheeseball songs makes us feel better than, well, cheese or chicken soup, and we?re not ashamed to admit it. Besides, who remembers anything about a cartoon called The Prince of Egypt today, anyway? Anybody? C?mon now!

Winner: ?When You Believe? from The Prince of Egypt

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Movie about Bruce Lee?s most legendary fight is in the works

Bruce Lee obtained legendary status as a martial artist in part because of a 1965 fight in Oakland, Calif., against Chinese kung fu master Wong Jack Man. It was the last fight of Lee's career.

For nearly 50 years, there has been much speculation and heated debate about what occurred inside of that gym, as very few people witnessed it. But the upshot of the bout is that it helped to develop Lee's views on Jeet Kune Do, which is the forerunner of today's mixed martial arts.

On Tuesday, Deadline.com reported that a movie about the fight that will be called "Birth of the Dragon" will be produced by QED International and Groundswell Productions.

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Groundswell CEO Michael London told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday that the process of developing a screenplay has just begun.

It is not, however, designed to be a biography of Lee, who died in 1973, or the definitive account of the fight.

"We're actually not trying to re-tell the story of Bruce Lee," London said. "I think that's a natural impression people might get. The idea, actually, is to take that battle, which has been so mysterious and so powerful and so interesting to so many, and tell the lead-up to that story, which is Wong Jack Man's arrival in San Francisco.

"We've created a back story. There is a lot people that know about why Wong Jack Man came to San Francisco, but we're trying to create a dramatically satisfying story about why he's there. So we're taking license. That's why we say it's going to be inspired by that fight and isn't a literal telling of it."

London said the writers -- Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen Rivele -- have the belief that Jack Man was trying to help Lee to become the best version of himself and was trying to teach Lee lessons.

London said the fight sequences will be shown through the eyes of the people who were there. One of those was Lee's wife, Linda, who was eight months pregnant at the time with the couple's son, Brandon.

"There will be a slightly stylized quality to the actual fight sequences," London said. "That will allow different people who were there to come away with differing conclusions of what happened. ... The whole idea is that the 13 people who saw that fight came away with very differing ideas of what happened. The fight itself will be impressionistic."

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Jack Man is reclusive and rarely does interviews and has rarely spoken of that fight. London said producers will approach him after finishing the screenplay. He said he hasn't reached out to Lee's family, either.

Lee's daughter, Shannon, who runs the Bruce Lee Foundation, said that the fight was significant in her father's life because of the impact it had upon him.

What Uncle Sam could learn from the Catholic Church

We absolutely ought to have a safety net for the very needy ? but it won't come cheap

Over the past few days, we have seen a number of conversations arise over the relevance of Catholicism in America, thanks to the historic resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. More than 57 million Catholic adults lived in the U.S. in 2008, according to Census figures, far and away the largest religious affiliation, with Baptists second at 36 million. Catholics accounted for almost a third of all self-identifying Christian adults, a group that comprises 76 percent of the total adult population; Catholics alone are 25 percent of the adult population.

With those numbers in mind, it might have surprised some to see the New York Times' Ross Douthat proclaim an end to "the Catholic moment" in his Sunday column. Douthat argued that the Catholic influence has waned due to scandals, and that overall, Christian thought on what makes a properly ordered society has been largely abandoned by both parties. Eight years ago, at the last papal transition, "a Catholic view of economics and culture represented a center that both parties hoped to claim," Douthat wrote. "Today's Republicans are more likely to channel Ayn Rand than Thomas Aquinas,?and a strident social liberalism holds the whip hand in the Democratic Party."

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My friend and The Week colleague Matt Lewis largely agrees, but not about the cause. The culture war is now over, Matt says, and conservatives, along with the Catholic Church, have lost it as the politics of the U.S. grew much more secular. "Is it any surprise that conservatism?itself?would eventually evolve to mirror a society that is rapidly becoming more secular and less traditional?" Matt asks. Put together with the psychological impact of the 9/11 attack, the Great Recession, and the government economic interventions that followed, it's small wonder that a more secular conservatism and liberalism emerged. According to Matt, the rise of the Tea Party has defined conservatism even further toward the "Randian ethos" of objectivism, Ayn Rand's atheist philosophy that represents the radical opposition to both Barack Obama's call for "collective action" and George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."

Secular or not, and regardless of the reason, Douthat is correct in pointing out the issue. He diagnoses the real problem incorrectly, though. The problem isn't the leadership of the Catholic Church or the loss of influence ? it's the leadership of the United States, and more broadly the West, and the loss of integrity. The real issue isn't Rand vs Aquinas, but Diogenes and his search for honesty in public discourse.

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Interestingly, I had a conversation less than two weeks ago with a fellow Catholic about the Rand/Aquinas conflict. The topic of my conservatism arose, and he asked me almost immediately whether I believed in the Randian philosophy, and whether people have a responsibility to the poor. In fact, I am no Randian; I believe that Jesus left pretty clear instructions on his followers' responsibility to care for the poor. I also believe that societies need to structure themselves to provide the proverbial "safety net" for those truly in need, if for no other reason than self-insurance. Any society with a large class of exploited poor will have no end of social difficulties and instability, the costs of which in a properly ordered system would far exceed the assistance extended. In Aquinas' terms, these would represent the structures necessary for a just society.

Society does not necessarily mean government, although it doesn't exclude it either. It certainly didn't mean "government" in Aquinas' time. The Christian church pioneered hospitals, outreach to the poor, and education for the masses long before governments decided to enter into those industries, even after they became industries. Ironically, these days government has mostly gotten in the way of Catholic attempts to provide a just society through individual and group action, by threatening their existence with mandates that force the Church and its organizations to choose between faithful adherence to their doctrine and outreach to the poor and homeless.?

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However, a couple of key elements are also necessary in this paradigm: responsibility and sustainability. The problem facing the American welfare system and the European nanny states is that they are designed with neither in mind. Their fiscal structure pays more in benefits than it receives, a very basic form of irresponsibility and unsustainability. That forces these systems to borrow massively against future production, which in essence means that these social systems pay benefits with someone else's money ? the children or grandchildren to come. One could consider that theft, or at the least taxation without representation.

It's not difficult to argue that neither of the two philosophers would endorse such a system. After all, even St. Thomas Aquinas did math.

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Anyone with a calculator can figure this out; it doesn't take philosophers to tell us that we can't borrow money forever without risking collapse. Yet we hear nearly nothing from the political class about the true costs of these programs, or the responsibility for the bills to be paid properly when incurred.?

One rare voice did arise on this point over the weekend in Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and ex-chair of the Democratic National Committee. In an interview with pollster Scott Rasmussen, Dean explained that the middle class would have to choose whether to keep the systems as they are and start paying a lot more to maintain them, or demand reform that would include lower benefits. "This is the fundamental problem in American politics," Dean said. "Somebody has to tell the middle class that either your taxes are going up or your programs are going to get cut, or else we're going to go into financial oblivion."

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So who in today's political class wants to tell the middle class this very obvious truth? "No one," Dean replies, and he's right. This takes the reform argument entirely out of the equation, which brings us back to Douthat and Lewis on the "Catholic center" and just society. We have no voices in the current political arena, Catholic or otherwise, explaining that we can have programs that take care of the truly needy, which would require many more to sacrifice a little more ? either in eschewing ever-expanding benefits, or in taxes ? while ensuring sustainability and stability without taking money from our grandchildren to pay for our policies.?

When George Bush proposed some modest reforms of Social Security, including the gradual transformation of the program from a defined-benefit program to a defined-contribution program, he got ridiculed out of the effort ? and the reformers have been on the run ever since. With reform off the table, so too is the Catholic center of sustainable and responsible safety net programs, and the only other options are either government confiscation or every man for himself. And as long as no one will be honest with the public about the consequences of today's irresponsible and unsustainable systems, those will continue to be the only two political options.

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This isn't a secular vs religious conflict. It's an honesty issue. In the current political climate, Diogenes would be swinging that lamp a very, very long time.

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Extreme Rules tickets on sale Saturday, Feb. 23

Get ready to throw out the rulebook, St. Louis: WWE?s most out-of-control pay-per-view of the year, Extreme Rule, is coming to Scottrade Center on Sunday, May 19. Tickets for the event go on sale this Saturday, Feb. 23, at 10 a.m CT.

Members of the WWE Universe can purchase tickets at the Scottrade Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets and Ticketmaster.com, as well as by phone by calling 800-745-3000.

Don?t miss Extreme Rules? debut in one of America?s most storied wrestling cities. Last year?s thrilling show culminated with a brutal fight between John Cena and Brock Lesnar. What will be in store for the WWE Universe come May 19, when the entire WWE locker room embraces their extreme side for one night?

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