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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Dawn of the Dead (Kennedys)
In which Alex Clark overcomes natural laziness and a complete ignorance of record collecting to go hunting for vinyl at sunrise–all to mark Record Store Day 2012. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Anarchy in the UK, collecting, Garbage, Jack White, Lee Perry, London, Music, Record Store Day, Sixteen Saltines, The Sex Pistols
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It is a Truth Universally Acknowledged that a Woman in Possession of a Good Uterus Must be in Want of a Man to Regulate it
In which Elissa Schappell contemplates the latest right-wing salvos in the War Against Women. Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged abortion, Jan Brewer, Komen, Michelle Bachmann, moon orphans, Newt Gingrich, pro-choice, pro-life, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, VAWA, War Against Women, women's right to choose
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Ennial Fever
Jennifer Kabat visits the Whitney Biennial and New Museum Triennial — which happen at the same time — and tries to figure out what’s up with art today. A lot, it seems. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Amalia Pica, Danh Vo, Dawn Kasper, Deloitte & Touche, Forrest Bess, Hassan Khan, Jose Antonio Vega Macotella, Peter Schjeldahl, Pilvi Takala, Pratchaya Phinthong, Rayyane Tabet, The New Museum Triennial, The Whitney Biennial
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Misfits Unite
Janet Steen finds sonic bliss on a stretch of American strip mall…and then seeks out the musician who inspired it. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Camden Joy, David Bowie, Devin Davis, Elliott Smith, John Updike, misfits, Stephen Malkmus, Yoko Ono
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My Boyfriend, Jesus
In which Diana Spechler reminisces about her college boyfriend, who thought he was Jesus. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Bill Clinton, Boulder, Buzz Aldrin, demons, farting, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Jesus, Jewish, Mary Magdalene, schizophrenic, vampire
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God Save The Queen
In which Alex Clark ponders London, death, the Olympics and the Queen’s Jubilee – in short, nostalgia – and waving at HRH herself back in 1977. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged diamond jubilee, London, nostalgia, professional footballers, Queen Elizabeth, the Olympics
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Sunday in the Park with Hannah Antalek
“In my paintings,” Hannah Antalek says, “I attempt to bridge the divide of high and low art by using tacky colors and cliché or kitsch iconography in contrast with sanctified or stereotypically beautiful imagery.” Continue reading
Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art
Tagged Hannah Antalek, Painters, Sunday in the Park with Art
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Thomas Kinkade, Conceptual Genius. For Real.
In which Jennifer Kabat likens Thomas Kinkade to Hirst, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Jeff Koons. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Jeffrey Deitch, Larry Gagosian, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Susan Orlean, Takashi Murakami, Thomas Cole, Thomas Kinkade
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On Loving Art, Imperfectly
In which Janet Steen contemplates why, as a so-called literary person, she can be such a half-assed reader. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Denis Johnson, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Auster, Paula Fox
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In Honor of National Pot Smokers’ Day
In which Diana Spechler reminisces about illegally buying liquor, and the Boston College student who sold it to her. Love and drugs at the age of seventeen.
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Posted in Memoir
Tagged 4/20, Boone's Farm, Def Leppard, Grateful Dead, National Pot Smokers' Day, Nirvana, Purple Rain, shoulder-tapping, virginal adolescence, Zima
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Miranda Wrongs
What will become of artists when bad reviews get too personal? Will strong candidates continue to seek office if our civil discourse becomes more fractious? How could anyone hate Miranda July? Greg Olear investigates. Continue reading →