by Robert Maniscalco | Oct 6, 2020 | Motivational, Random Favorites, World View
What the American Dream Has Left Behind (a rant) Here’s the VLOG version. Or you may read the BLOG version below. (edited for clarity) What people would have us call the “extreme left” is really what many are now calling the extreme middle way. Even...
by Robert Maniscalco | Sep 24, 2020 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, World View
Who is Innocent? And Who is Guilty? Here’s an update on the alleged sexual assault allegedly attempted on my daughter, Mary by our trusted and beloved neighbor. It allegedly happened while under my direct supervision, just out of sight, under water, in his pool. He...
by Robert Maniscalco | Aug 3, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View
Here is my response to a fascinating blog about my Alma Matter/professional acting school, Circle in the Square. Much of what we learned at Circle was about neutralization, where the goal is to find our neutral, so we might then add or take away any color, behavior,...
by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 22, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View
MEDIA RELEASE 10-15-20 The Quench Project Continues Renown Charleston artist, Robert Maniscalco, has created an exhibition of paintings, expressing hope and renewal from a Vision Trip to Haiti in 2014, in collaboration with Water Missions International. The Project...
by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 21, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, World View
Our Public and Private Dramas, Played Out Through Art Last week the White House moved the portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush from a place of prominence. Taken alongside Mr. Trump’s unwillingness to dedicate the official portraits of the Obamas, it...
by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 9, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, World View
The Battle for the Artist’s Soul This Fran Lebowitz quote seems quite offensive today, where art has been so thoroughly democratized. I don’t subscribe to this perspective, of course. But there is a grain of truth in it. I would only add, for those interested in...
