Andrew Klavan’s new book arrived in my inbox with providential timing. Only a few hours before I started perusing The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, I’d signed a publishing contract for my first novel — a story of murder, prostitution, and the many debased things that fallen man is willing to do in pursuit of his ambitions.
But a tiny part of me blushed at the plot I was preparing to put down on paper — what would compel a Christian, a self-professed church lady no less, to tell such a sordid tale?  What compels other Christians to read them? Klavan, as might be expected from an award-winning crime writer and very public Christ-follower, has long been thinking about such questions and now provides an answer.
“We should look at the question from the other direction,” Klavan says, “what good does it do anybody to write about the world as it&#8217;s not?” And the world, as he details through the true stories of three notorious killers — including history’s first killer — can be a very dark place. Portraying that darkness accurately in our art, Klavan contends, is one way we can better recognize and appreciate the light.
As one endorser of The Kingdom of Cain said, the book is part meditation and part memoir. I’d add, it’s also part apologia, as Klavan makes an argument for the ultimate triumph of not just a generic goodness but a Christian goodness. Evil, he argues, in the tradition of C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain, is the unwelcome guest to the original state of creation, which, as we know from Genesis, was very good.
“The shall-nots of the Ten Commandments are not restrictions on our true selves,” writes Klavan, “They are a guide to clearing the path to our original nature so we can become who we truly are.” Another way to say it is that the world began with a moral order, and what goes against that order is the intruder. Klavan explains why this reality should inform the work of any Christian artist seeking to write words that ring true. “I will write about absolutely horrific things,” he says, “but always in the moral world.”
What does writing dark works in the moral world look like? He shows us.
While analyzing the great fictional works his three case studies inspired, Klavan’s insights give new relish to film classics, offering fresh revelations about their appeal to audiences. One of his chapters on 1950s cross-dressing serial killer Ed Gein dissects how he is reimagined in the film Psycho. Unlike the novel it was based on, the movie recognizes not just the psychological brokenness of its villain, but his spiritual deformity. What the Catholic Hitchcock “understood in his bones,” Klavan writes, “is that there is a tension between the things of the spirit and the things of the flesh.”
And so, the great director played up that tension, bringing about his female lead’s murder right as she is in a moment of redemption, preparing to make amends for stealing $40,000 from her employer. This elevates the story from simple scare fest to tragedy.
“[Lead female character Marion’s] work in the film is the work of the spirit,” Klavan writes. Through her death, Hitchcock picked up on an aspect of Gein’s history that Psycho’s initial author didn’t — &#8220;the struggle to reconcile religion with eroticism is real.” This is something Hitchcock subtly points to by having Norman Bates use a biblical painting of Susanna and the Elders, which depicts two spiritual leaders trying to sexually exploit a woman as she is bathing, as a peephole to spy on Marion undressing for the shower.
From the Book of Daniel to the Bates Motel — the baser impulses of men will ever be a threat to women.
Other works inspired by the Gein case, like The Silence of the Lambs, compel because they not only tell us truthfully of the violence associated with perverted sexual desire, they also mock the idea that the explanations for such violence will be provided by psychiatry rather than religion. Hannibal Lecter is simply the face of unapologetic evil — like the icy Nietzscheans Leopold and Loeb (whose story Klavan also details), there is no Freudian concept that will restrain his malevolence. He would have to become an entirely new creature for that, a magic that only Christianity can work.
The book is full of similar, worthy insights, particularly when it comes to works inspired by the story of Cain. It is clear that for Klavan, there is no joy like the joy of accurately representing the human experience, and humanity is sinful. You cannot tell compelling stories while hiding reality, something the Bible’s authors apparently knew very well, given the horrors that fill Scripture’s pages from incest, to gang rapes, to, well, crucifixion.
Too often, Christians forget the “true” part of the Apostle Paul’s admonition to think about: &#8220;whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable.” Truth is sometimes ugly, but all truth is God’s truth, Klavan tells me, and will reflect God’s moral order. “Every honest story, every true story, has God,” he says
“Whether you believe or not, if you tell a true story, if you tell the truth about life, God will be there.”

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A new statue of an overweight black woman placed in Times Square in New York City is inspiring a lot of reactions online, especially since it&#8217;s being compared to Michelangelo’s “David.” 
Times Square Arts recently erected the statue by artist Thomas J Price, which is called &#8220;Grounded in the Stars,&#8221; as a temporary display in the tourist-heavy area of Manhattan. There will also be a “Man Series” of billboards displayed in the area.
The Times Square website <a href="https://www.timessquarenyc.org/tsq-arts-projects/grounded-in-the-stars">says</a> of the piece: &#8220;Price’s multi-channel presentation on the screens and sculptural installation on the plaza below forms a two-part takeover in Times Square that foregrounds the intrinsic value of the individual and amplifies traditionally marginalized bodies on a monumental scale.&#8221;
The website notes that the statue depicts “a fictionalized character” who was “constructed from images, observations, and open calls spanning between Los Angeles and London.” 
“The young woman depicted in Grounded in the Stars carries familiar qualities, from her stance and countenance to her everyday clothing,” it says, noting that her “stance is a subtle nod to Michelangelo’s David.”
The site also says, “the woman in Grounded in the Stars cuts a stark contrast to the pedestaled permanent monuments — both white, both men — which bookend Duffy Square, while embodying a quiet gravity and grandeur.”
Social media users have had overwhelmingly negative reactions to the statue.
“They tear down statues of American heroes and replace them with statues of random obese black women. That’s because the Left has no historical heroes. Everyone who was born before approximately 2005 is inherently problematic,” Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh <a href="https://x.com/mattwalshblog/status/1920116456454328758?s=43&amp;t=BDz6oekueqrSVJ50bM62xw">wrote</a>.
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They tear down statues of American heroes and replace them with statues of random obese black women. That’s because the Left has no historical heroes. Everyone who was born before approximately 2005 is inherently problematic.
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“In 2021, NYC removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall due to ‘racism.’ The city has now erected a huge statue of a rotund woman in Times Square,” conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey <a href="https://x.com/conservmillen/status/1920201578516263221">wrote</a>. 
“So, we’re taking down monuments to people who accomplished some of [the] greatest feats in human history, from which we are all still benefitting (sic), and instead honoring random people who have zero notable contributions. Doomed,” she added.
“Statues aren’t just art. they’re markers of who we are and what we stand for. But the Left doesn’t want heroes, they want a blank slate to push their woke agenda,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/OneXOneY/status/1920118030673072397">added</a>.

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New NYC Statue Of Overweight Black Woman Touted As ‘Contrast’ To Monuments Of White Men

New NYC Statue Of Overweight Black Woman Touted As 'Contrast' To Statues Of White Men

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The 2025 Met Gala will go forward tonight with many A-list celebrities in attendance dressed in their wildest outfits to celebrate this year’s official theme: “Black Dandyism.”
Inspired by Monica Miller’s book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” the new exhibit will center on black style, especially menswear, from the 18th century to present.
The annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute will continue its longstanding tradition of being an over-the-top extravagant and slightly controversial event for celebrities to show off their fashion. Even celebrity fans often roll their eyes at what seems like a blatant display of wealth.
For example, tickets cost $75,000 each.
But this year, major news outlets like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/style/met-gala-2025-black-dandy-politics.html">The New York Times</a> are painting the Met Gala as a means of “resistance” against the Trump administration, especially since the president ventured into the world of the arts by taking over the Kennedy Center earlier this year.
NYT noted that this year’s show has special “relevance” as it’s “devoted for the first time entirely to designers of color” and “focuses on the way black men have used fashion as a tool of self-actualization, revolution and subversion throughout American history and the black diaspora.”
“This feels way bigger than just fashion,” Louis Pisano, a cultural critic and the writer of the newsletter Discoursted, told the outlet, mentioning how the theme was an intentional choice. “Putting black style front and center sends a real message.”
Co-chairs include Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, ASAP Rocky, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, and Pharrell Williams. LeBron James is an honorary chair.
“It’s important that we don’t sit this one out,” Pisano said. “Not when black fashion is finally being centered in an institution that has historically excluded it.”
“I’m already bracing for the conservative backlash once they pay attention to it, and that’s why it’s especially important that people show up,” he added.
The outlet noted that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not be attending the Met Gala this year, and neither will Elon Musk, who last attended in 2022. Most attendees are kept a secret until the event happens.
Wintour said in a statement that “the show was never about politics, not in conception, not now,” but is about  “self-determination, beauty, creativity and holding up a lens to history.”
She did acknowledge, “the Met recognizing and taking seriously the contributions of black designers and the black community in fashion has a heightened meaning in 2025.”

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Met Gala’s ‘Black Dandyism’ Theme Touted As Act Of ‘Resistance’ Against Trump

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President Donald Trump may have replaced a portrait of former President Barack Obama with an artist&#8217;s rendering of the moment he stood and raised his fist — shouting, &#8220;Fight! Fight! Fight!&#8221; — after a would-be assassin shot him at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The White House shared a short video on Tuesday showing tourists walking through the halls near the new painting, which showed Trump with his face bloodied and his fist in the air, surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents.
&#8220;Some new artwork at the White House,&#8221; the caption read.
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Some new artwork at the White House 👀 <a href="https://t.co/l6u5u7k82T">pic.twitter.com/l6u5u7k82T</a>
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It was Katie Pavlich who tipped people off as to what might have been moved to accommodate the new acquisition: &#8220;I’m pretty sure this is where the Obama portrait was.&#8221;
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I’m pretty sure this is where the Obama portrait was. <a href="https://t.co/VSduieUK0l">https://t.co/VSduieUK0l</a>
&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1910768365028663576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A few suggested in the comments that the new art might be hanging across from the Obama portrait rather than in its place, but the reactions flooded in all the same.
&#8220;Wow &#8211; a much-needed upgrade from the last piece displayed there! Never forget,&#8221; Jenn Pellegrino said.
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Wow &#8211; a much-needed upgrade from the last piece displayed there! Never forget. ✊🏻🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/RWyBAKjmOj">https://t.co/RWyBAKjmOj</a>
&mdash; Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 (@JennPellegrino) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennPellegrino/status/1910822065780760804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump also raised eyebrows after it was revealed early on that he had hung a framed copy of the New York Post&#8217;s cover page featuring his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hangs-mugshot-outside-oval-office-so-bad-a-that-its-surreal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mug shot</a>.
&#8220;New office art just dropped,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s rapid response team posted in mid-February.
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New office art just dropped <a href="https://t.co/XNVfdmEHEG">pic.twitter.com/XNVfdmEHEG</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1890385341481152734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;They framed Donald Trump’s mug shot and put it on the White House wall. This is so bad a** that it’s surreal,&#8221; one person posted in response to the framed mug shot.
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They framed Donald Trump’s mug shot and put it on the White House wall.
This is so bad ass that it’s surreal.<a href="https://t.co/Zm3GUl97J4">pic.twitter.com/Zm3GUl97J4</a>
&mdash; Philip Anderson (@VoteHarrisOut) <a href="https://twitter.com/VoteHarrisOut/status/1890459351334195677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Democrats really thought the Trump arrest and mugshot would end him politically. Instead he now has the mugshot picture hung just outside the Oval Office,&#8221; OutKick&#8217;s Clay Travis added.
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Democrats really thought the Trump arrest and mugshot would end him politically. Instead he now has the mugshot picture hung just outside the Oval Office. <a href="https://t.co/3w8lLfDKQe">pic.twitter.com/3w8lLfDKQe</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1890467839884103951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Everyone who walks into the Oval office has to see Trump’s epic mugshot,” Libs of TikTok posted. “It’s a reminder of what they did to him and why he won.&#8221;
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Everyone who walks into the Oval office has to see Trump’s epic mugshot.
It’s a reminder of what they did to him and why he won. <a href="https://t.co/22qJKDSgqC">pic.twitter.com/22qJKDSgqC</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1890461193980031157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And from the Media Research Center: &#8220;Legendary! President Trump hangs his mugshot in the White House. Can’t wait for the leftist media meltdown.&#8221;
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Legendary! President Trump hangs his mugshot in the White House.
Can’t wait for the leftist media meltdown.<a href="https://t.co/JdQrfSOHkC">pic.twitter.com/JdQrfSOHkC</a>
&mdash; Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1890517044036010195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Injured During Shooting At Campaign Rally In Butler, PA

Trump May Have Replaced Obama’s Portrait In The White House. Here’s What’s Hanging There Now.

Trump May Have Replaced Obama's Portrait In The White House. Here's What's Hanging There Now.

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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had terminated most members of the Board of Trustees at the Kennedy Center — including Chairman David Rubenstein — and had taken over the role himself.
Trump made the announcement in a post to his social media platform Truth Social, and added that he also planned to make immediate changes to some of the events that were held there — beginning with drag shows that were intended for an audience of children.
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&#8220;At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. , GREAT AGAIN,&#8221; Trump began. &#8220;I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.&#8221;
&#8220;We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, Donald J. Trump,&#8221; the president&#8217;s post continued, and he then pivoted to give some insight as to why he had made the call to change the center&#8217;s direction.
&#8220;Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across out Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!&#8221;
News broke around the same time that, in another similar post to Truth Social, Trump had revoked former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-revokes-bidens-security-clearance-cites-poor-mental-acuity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s security clearance</a>. Citing Biden&#8217;s obviously deteriorating mental acuity, Trump mentioned the report compiled by Special Counsel Robert Hur — in which Biden was described as forgetful at best.
&#8220;The Hur Report revealed that Biden suffers from ‘poor memory’ and, even in his ‘prime,’ could not be trusted with sensitive information. I will always protect our National Security — JOE, YOU’RE FIRED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!&#8221; Trump&#8217;s statement read in part.

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Trump Dumps Kennedy Center Board, Puts Immediate End To Drag Shows For Kids

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global warming</a> protesters who threw cans of tomato soup over the glass frame of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflower&#8221; painting have been sentenced to time in prison for their actions.
On Friday, a London court sentenced Anna Holland, 22, and Phoebe Plummer, 23, from the activist group Just Stop Oil, to two years and 20 months in prison for their so-called protest against fossil fuels at a museum in London in 2022, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/climate/just-stop-oil-climate-activists-prison-van-gough-soup-intl/index.html">CNN</a> reported.
Both Holland and Plummer were found guilty of criminal damage to the pieces of art&#8217;s gold-colored frame.  Judge Christopher Hehir blasted the two for their actions against the “cultural treasure,” which he said could have been “seriously damaged or even destroyed” by them by throwing soup on the paintings and then glueing their hands to the museum wall. The “Sunflowers” painting is valued at nearly $85 million.
“Soup might have seeped through the glass. You couldn’t have cared less if the painting was damaged or not,” Hehir said in court. “You had no right to do what you did to ‘Sunflowers.’”
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🥫 BREAKING: 3 YEARS 8 MONTHS COMBINED IN PRISON FOR THROWING SOUP
⛓️ Phoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8216;Sunflowers&#8217;.
🚔 Phoebe received a further 3 months for… <a href="https://t.co/JBjCgObiic">pic.twitter.com/JBjCgObiic</a>
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Plummer was also sentenced to an additional 3 months in prison for her part in a “slow march” in the road in October 2023 in London.
“You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel like it,” Hehir said. “You do not.”
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Shortly after the sentences were handed down, more vandals from the same protest group shared a clip of three peeople  throwing cans of soup over the glass on not one but two Vincent Van Gogh paintings “in the &#8216;Poets and Lovers&#8217; exhibition at the National Gallery,” per the post on <a href="https://x.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1839670072530317423">X</a>.
The London judge is the same person who handed down sentences in July to five other so-called climate activists in the U.K. from Just Stop Oil or its allied group, Extinction Rebellion.
The court found the vandals guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after it had recruited people to climb structures along the M25 — a major traffic route around London — in November 2022, the outlet noted.
Hehir sentenced four out of five of the activists to four-year jail terms, while the group’s co-founder, Roger Hallam, was handed a five year sentence.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World’s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces</a>

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The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/1-introduction-to-the-idea-of-god-new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biblical Series</a>, which explores the psychological significance of the Bible. In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNIC-GZzj48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this segment</a>, he addresses the complex and powerful nature of dreams, comparing it to artists’ talent at portraying more information than has yet to be articulated. He considers the questions: Where does information in a dream come from? What draws us to music? How long have humans been observing each other? And, the eternal question of human beings: How do you live in the world? You can explore more in Dr. Peterson’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensive catalog</a>, available on DailyWire+. 
I think the theory that dreams are merely the consequence of random neuronal firing is absolutely absurd because there is nothing random about dreams. They are structured and complex, and they are not like snow on a television screen or static on a radio. They are complicated. I have often seen people have very coherent dreams that have a perfect narrative structure. They are fully developed in some sense. So, that theory just does not go anywhere with me. I cannot see that as useful at all. I am more likely to take the phenomena seriously and say there is something to dreams.
You dream of the future; then you try to make it into a reality. That seems to be important. Or maybe you dream up a nightmare and try to make that into a reality; people do that too if they are hellbent on revenge, for example, and full of hatred and resentment. That manifests itself in terrible fantasies. Those are dreams; then people go act them out. These things are powerful. Whole nations can get caught up in collective dreams. That is what happened to Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is an absolutely remarkable, amazing, horrific, destructive spectacle. The same thing happened in the Soviet Union. And the same thing happened in China. We have to take these seriously and try to understand what is going on.
Carl Jung believed that dreams could contain more information than was yet articulate. I think artists do the same. People go to museums, and they look at paintings — Renaissance paintings or modern paintings — and they do not exactly know why they are there. I was in a room in New York full of Renaissance art, the greatest painters. I thought maybe that room was worth a billion dollars or something outrageous because there were about 20 paintings in there. Priceless. Why are those paintings worth so much? And why is there a museum in the biggest city in the world devoted to them? And why do people from all over the world come and look at them? What are those people doing? One of them was of the assumption of Mary — a beautifully painted, absolutely glowing work of art — with 20 people standing in front of it looking at it. What are those people up to? They do not know. Why did they make a pilgrimage to New York to come and look at that painting? It is not like they know. Why is it worth so much? I know there is a status element to it too, but that begs the question, why do those items become such high-status items? What is it about them that is so absolutely remarkable? We are strange creatures.
I was trying to figure out, in part, where does the information that is in a dream come from? Because it has to come from somewhere. You can think about it as a revelation because it is as though it springs out of the void, and it is new knowledge and it is a revelation. You did not produce it. It just appears. I am scientifically minded, and I am quite a rational person, and I like to have an explanation for things that is rational and empirical before I look for any other kind of explanation. I do not want to say that everything that is associated with divinity can be reduced in some manner to biology or to evolutionary history or anything like that, but, insofar as it is possible to do that reduction, I am going to do that. And I am going to leave the other phenomena floating in the air because they cannot be pinned down. In that, I would put the category of mystical or religious experience, which we do not understand at all.
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Artists observe one another. They observe people, and they represent what they see. They transmit a message of what they see to us, and they teach us to see. We do not necessarily know what it is we are learning from them, but we are learning something, or, at least, we are acting like we are learning something. We go to movies, we watch stories, and we immerse ourselves in fiction constantly. That is an artistic production. For many people, the world of the arts is a living world, and that is particularly true if you are a creative person. It is the creative, artistic people who move the knowledge of humanity forward, and they do that with their artistic productions first. They are on the edge. The dancers, the poets, the visual artists, and the musicians do that, and we are not sure what they are doing.
Why do you like music? It gives you a deep intimation of the significance of things — and no one questions it. You go to a concert, you are thrilled, and it is a quasi-religious experience, particularly if people really get themselves together and get the crowd moving. There is something incredibly intense about it. It makes no sense whatsoever. It is not an easy thing to understand. Music is deeply patterned, and patterned in layers, and I think that has something to do with it because reality is patterned in layers. So I think music represents reality in some fundamental way, and we get into the sway of that and sort of participate in being. That is part of what makes it such an uplifting experience. But we do not really know that is what we are doing. We just go do it. And it is nourishing for people, young people in particular. Lots of them live for music. It is where they derive all their meaning, their cultural identity, everything that is nourishing comes from their affiliation with their music that is part of their cultural identity. That is an amazing thing.
The question still remains: Where does the information in dreams come from? I think it comes from watching the patterns everyone acts out. We watch that forever, and we have some representations of those patterns. That is part of our cultural history; that is what is embedded in stories, in fictional accounts of the story between good and evil, the bad guy and the good guy, the romance. These are canonical patterns of being for people, and they deeply affect us because they represent what it is we will act out in the world. Then we flesh that out with the individual information we have about ourselves and other people. It is as though there are waves of behavioral patterns that manifest themselves in the crowd across time, that great dramas are played on the crowd across time. The artists watch that, get intimations of what that is, and they write it down and tell us, and then we are a little clearer about what we are up to.
Take, for example, a great dramatist like Shakespeare. We know what he wrote is fiction, and then we say fiction is not true. But then you think, well wait a minute, maybe it is true like numbers are true. Numbers are an abstraction from the underlying reality, but no one in their right mind would really think numbers are not true. You could even make a case that the numbers are more real than the things they represent because the abstraction is so insanely powerful. Once you have mathematics, you are just deadly. You can move the world with mathematics. So, it is not obvious that the abstraction is less real than the more concrete reality. But if you take a work of fiction, like Hamlet, and say it is true because it is fiction, then you think, wait a minute, what kind of explanation is that? But maybe it is more true than nonfiction because it takes the story that needs to be told about you, and it extracts that out and says, “Look, here is something that is a key part of the human experience as such.” It is an abstraction from this underlying noisy substrate, and people are affected by it because they see the thing that is represented is part of the pattern of their being. That is the right way to think about it.
With these old stories, these ancient stories, it seems to me that process has been occurring for thousands of years. It is like we watched ourselves, and we extracted out some stories. We imitated each other, we represented that in drama, and then we distilled the drama, we got a representation of the distillation, and then we did it again at the end of that process. God only knows how long that took. They have traced some fairytales back 10,000 years in relatively unchanged form, and it certainly seems to me that the archaeological evidence suggests that the really old stories the Bible begins with are at least that old and likely embedded in the pre-history that is far older than that. You might think, well, how can you be so sure? The answer to that, in part is, cultures that do not change, like the ancient cultures, did not change as fast; they stayed the same. That is the answer. They keep their information moving generation to generation; that is how they stayed the same. We know again in the archaeological record there are records of rituals that have remained relatively unbroken for up to 20,000 years; it was discovered in caves of Japan that were set up for a particular kind of bear worship that was also characteristic of Western Europe. So these things can last for very long periods of time.
We are watching each other act in the world, and the question is: How long have we been watching each other? The answer to that, in some sense is, as long as there have been creatures with nervous systems. That is a long time. That is some hundreds of millions of years, perhaps longer than that, that we have been watching each other trying to figure out what we are up to across that entire span of time. Some of that knowledge is built right into our bodies, which is why we can dance with each other, for example, because understanding is not just something that you have as an abstraction; it is something that you act out. That is what children are doing when they are learning to rough and tumble play. They are learning to integrate their body with the body of someone else in a harmonious way, learning to cooperate and compete. That is all instantiated right into their body. It is not abstract knowledge; they do not know that they are doing that. They are just doing it. We can even use our body as a representational platform. So, we have been studying each other for a long time, abstracting out what it is that we are up to.
What should we be up to? That is an even more fundamental question. If you are going to live in the world, and you are going to do it properly, what does properly mean and who is it that you might go to about that? That is the right question. It is what everyone wants to know. How do you live in the world? Not, what is the world made of? How do you live in the world? It is the eternal question of human beings, and I guess we are the only species that has ever really asked that question because all the other animals just go and do whatever they do. But not us. It is a question for us. 
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An art piece based on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/justin-timberlake">Justin Timberlake</a>’s mugshot is on display in the same Hamptons town where he was arrested for a DWI last month.
The 43-year-old singer’s mugshot inspired a limited-edition <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts">art piece</a> shown at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york">New York</a>. The new installation, reportedly available for purchase in several colors, comes courtesy of artist Godfrey Lohman. A report from <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/07/02/entertainment/justin-timberlake-mugshot-is-art-at-sag-harbor-gallery-happy/">Page Six</a> noted that tourists have been lining up to catch a glimpse of the piece.
“My reaction was, ‘Oh my God!’ That’s great! It’s just great!” gallery owner Romany Kramoris told Page Six. The so-called “Queen of Sag Harbor” also mentioned that the gallery had sold “two or three” of the art pieces, which cost $520 each. Kramoris added that “a lot of people are coming back.” 
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“[Timberlake’s mugshot] is our most contemporary piece! It’s au courant,” another gallery employee told the outlet.
Timberlake was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated and two citations, including one for running a stop sign and another for failure to keep in lane, in the early hours of June 18.  
A police report obtained by <a href="https://people.com/justin-timberlake-had-one-martini-when-pulled-over-refused-breathalyzer-police-report-8665607">People magazine</a> noted that the pop singer’s &#8220;eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests.&#8221; 
He also refused to take a breathalyzer test.
Documents also said Timberlake claimed, “I had one martini and I followed my friends home.”
According to reports, the young arresting officer did not recognize Timberlake as a celebrity.
“He didn’t recognize him or his name,” the source said. Another witness claimed, “Justin said under his breath, ‘This is going to ruin the tour.’ The cop replied, ‘What tour?’ Justin said, ‘The world tour.’”
Timberlake’s court appearance is currently set for July 26, when he’s scheduled to perform on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour stop in Poland. The “Cry Me a River” singer also has tour dates in the U.S. later this month.

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Justin Timberlake’s Mugshot Inspired A Portrait On Display In Hamptons Art Gallery

Art Based On Justin Timberlake's Mugshot Displayed In Hamptons Gallery 

A new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">portrait</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kate-middleton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kate Middleton</a>, Princess of Wales, is causing a stir and getting mostly negative reactions online.
The painting was commissioned by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British</a> outlet Tatler and graces the cover of their new July issue. It was created by British-Zambian artist Hanna Uzor. The portrait depicts Catherine during her appearance at the first state banquet of King Charles III’s reign.
“The July cover of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family">Princess of Wales</a> is the latest in a series of portraits commissioned by Tatler. Each has heralded a new era within the Royal Family, celebrating the strength and dignity of those dedicating their life to public duty,” the magazine’s X post of the image said.
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Uzor never met the princess, but said she used photos and videos to create the painting. 
“When you can’t meet the sitter in person, you have to look at everything you can find and piece together the subtle human moments revealed in different photographs: do they have a particular way of standing or holding their head or hands? Do they have a recurrent gesture?,” the artist said in a statement, per <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/style/catherine-princess-wales-tatler-scli-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. 
“All my portraits are made up of layers of a personality, constructed from everything I can find about them,” Uzor added.
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Online critics were not impressed with the final result, calling it terrible to the point of being disrespectful to the Princess of Wales.
“This is dreadful &#8211; somehow, I’m not sure the artist is a fan of the Princess &#8211; it looks like a bad GCSE [high school] project,” one commenter on X wrote.
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“This looks nothing like the Princess of Wales. It’s so awful, it’s disrespectful,” another person echoed.
A third commenter <a href="https://x.com/CatherineInFL/status/1793342807802790089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “This is shockingly bad. Was the intention to erase the Princess of Wales and replace her with a pretend person? The disrespect to the Princess shouldn&#8217;t be acceptable.”
The new royal family portrait comes just after royal fans responded negatively to an official portrait of King Charles III, which was revealed earlier this month, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-portrait-of-king-charles-iii-mocked-on-social-media-looks-like-hes-going-straight-to-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The 8.5 by 6.5-foot painting by British artist Jonathan Yeo included a bold red background.
“It looks like he’s bathing in blood,” one popular Instagram comment said of the king&#8217;s portrait.
“Looks like he’s going straight to hell,” another royal follower agreed.

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‘Shockingly Bad’: Critics Slam New Kate Middleton Portrait

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Buckingham Palace unveiled the first official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts">portrait</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-charles">King Charles III</a> to mixed reactions from the public. 
The 8.5 by 6.5-foot painting was done by British artist Jonathan Yeo, who is also responsible for depicting other high-profile subjects like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, actress Nicole Kidman, and education activist Malala Yousafzai.
King Charles is shown wearing the uniform of the Welsh guards. A butterfly is approaching his shoulder. The most striking aspect of the portrait is the swirling red background, which critics say is their main concern.
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“It looks like he’s bathing in blood,” one popular comment on social media said.
Another Instagram commenter wrote, “I would have loved this if this was any other color than red. He really captured the essence of him in the face, but the harshness of the red doesn’t match the softness of his expression.” 
“Looks like he’s going straight to hell,” a third social media user wrote.
“All the blood spilled around the world under the Royal Family&#8217;s command,” a fourth commenter echoed.
Yeo told the BBC that King Charles’s wife, Camilla, was a fan of the finished product. “Yes you’ve got him,” she allegedly said after seeing the painting. 
The artist said King Charles was “mildly surprised by the strong color, but otherwise he seemed to be smiling approvingly.” 
&#8220;I do my best to capture the life experiences and humanity etched into any individual sitter’s face, and I hope that is what I have achieved in this portrait,&#8221; Yeo said in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C68_S5iMWZg/?hl=en&amp;img_index=2">statement</a> shared by the royal family. &#8220;To try and capture that for His Majesty The King, who occupies such a unique role, was both a tremendous professional challenge, and one which I thoroughly enjoyed and am immensely grateful for.&#8221;
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Yeo said on his <a href="https://www.jonathanyeo.com/new-index-41">website</a> that he was inspired by the Welsh Guards&#8217; red uniform. 
“The vivid color of the glazes in the background echo the uniform’s bright red tunic, not only resonating with the royal heritage found in many historical portraits but also injecting a dynamic, contemporary jolt into the genre with its uniformly powerful hue, providing a modern contrast to more traditional depictions.”
“The butterfly approaching King Charles&#8217;s shoulder in the portrait adds a layer of narrative depth, symbolizing both his known advocacy for environmental causes and his personal transformation,” Yeo added.

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First Portrait Of King Charles III Mocked On Social Media: ‘Looks Like He’s Going Straight To Hell’

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/beyonce">Beyoncé</a> fans were delighted to see an advertisement for her upcoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">album</a>, &#8220;Cowboy Carter,&#8221; being projected onto the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts">Guggenheim Museum</a> in New York City just over a week before its March 29 release. The only problem is that the projection was not authorized by the venue.
Advertisements for the album were seen projected on several museums besides the Guggenheim, including the Whitney Museum, New Museum, and the Museum of Art and Design.
Museum reps shared in a <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/promotion-beyonce-cowboy-carter-album-guggenheim-whitney-new-museum-1234700495/">statement</a> with ARTnews that they did not authorize their building for that usage. They said Guggenheim staff “was not informed about and did not authorize this activation. However, we invite the public — including Beyoncé and her devoted fans — to visit the museum May 16–20 when we present projections by artist Jenny Holzer on the facade of our iconic building to celebrate the opening of her major exhibition.”
The projected image said, “This ain’t a country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” and included the album’s title and release date.
The Grammy Award-winning singer also posted a photo of the Guggenheim’s coordinates to her Instagram Story on Wednesday night, per <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/beyonce-cowboy-carter-nyc-museums-ad-1235638373/">Billboard</a>.
The Guggenheim referenced Beyoncé’s new song, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” when <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4xphCdu6ux/?hl=en">posting</a> Franz Marc’s 1910 painting “Three Horses Drinking” to Instagram on Thursday morning. The image caption began with, “This ain’t Texas,” which is a line from the song. The museum&#8217;s social account also shared an image of the unauthorized projection in Instagram Stories, adding a text overlay that said, “Hey beyonce!,” with a bee emoji.
Earlier this week, Beyoncé shared the official album cover for Cowboy Carter and discussed some of her motivation behind it on Instagram earlier this week.
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An art museum in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/england" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> has issued a warning to patrons that images of a British countryside in paintings can evoke what it labeled &#8220;dark,&#8221; &#8220;nationalist feelings.&#8221;
The Fitzwilliam Museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, decided to overhaul some of its displays, something that the museum&#8217;s director Luke Syson insisted is not being &#8220;woke.&#8221;
&#8220;I would love to think that there’s a way of telling these larger, more inclusive histories that doesn&#8217;t feel as if it requires a push-back from those who try to suggest that any interest at all in [this work is] what would now be called &#8216;woke,'&#8221; Syson told the Telegraph, as reported by <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/paintings-british-countryside-evoke-dark-140508085.html">Yahoo</a> News.
The paintings have been moved around into categories in an effort to make the museum &#8220;inclusive.&#8221;
&#8220;Being inclusive and representative shouldn&#8217;t be controversial; it should be enriching,&#8221; Syson said.
One of the signs in the Nature Gallery, showing the work of artist John Constable&#8217;s paintings of English hills, noted that the artwork can stir feelings of &#8220;pride towards a homeland.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark &#8220;nationalist feelings&#8221;. The museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, has undertaken an overhaul [&#8230;] in a move that its director insisted was not “woke”.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/1t09LcYqEP">https://t.co/1t09LcYqEP</a>
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&#8220;Landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity,&#8221; the sign read.
&#8220;The countryside was seen as a direct link to the past, and therefore a true reflection of the essence of a nation,&#8221; it added. &#8220;Paintings showing rolling English hills or lush French fields reinforced loyalty and pride towards a homeland.&#8221;
However, another part of the sign told visitors that &#8220;there is a darker side&#8221; to the images of the British countryside. 
&#8220;The darker side of evoking this nationalist feeling is the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong,&#8221; it added.
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Constable is known for his famous landscapes of the Suffolk countryside, the <a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/john-constable#:~:text=Constable%20is%20famous%20for%20his,worked%20up%20in%20the%20studio.">National Gallery</a> in London noted. Interestingly enough, as popular as his paintings are now, the London Gallery noted that &#8220;they were not particularly well received in England during his lifetime.&#8221;
In another part of the museum, the sign for the new Identity Gallery told patrons that portraits of wealthy and uniformed sitters &#8220;became vital tools in reinforcing the social order of a white ruling class, leaving very little room for representations of people of color, the working classes or other marginalized people,” the outlet noted.
And that, &#8220;portraits were often entangled, in complex ways, with British imperialism and the institution of transatlantic slavery.&#8221;
In the Migration and Movement gallery, signage noted that &#8220;while some people chose to leave their homes, global conflict, discrimination and European colonialism meant others fled or were exiled by force.&#8221;

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