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Category Archives: The Arts
Four Foolproof Ways to Become a Rich, Famous, and Critically-Acclaimed Novelist
Against the wishes of his editors, agents, publicists, and fellow novelists, Greg Olear reveals publishing’s best-kept secrets. Continue reading
Man Up – On Art and Masculinity in London
What does it take to be a man – or to make art from the subject of masculinity? As the Xs and Ys that define gender seem less fixed, Zakia Uddin investigates. Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis Hunter, Be a Man, boxing, Littlewhitehead, Mahtab Hussain, Masculinity, photography, ryan gosling, zakia uddin
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The Dream of the 90s: Where Did All The Anger Go? 1993 at the New Museum
Haunted by the past, Jennifer Kabat takes on the New Museum’s 1993 show and examines the era’s disappearance and recent reappearance in the art world Continue reading
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Tagged 1993, Andres Serrano, Chloe Sevingy, John Currin, Larry Clark, nadja Marcin, Nari Ward, Sue Williams, The New Museum, The Whitney Biennial
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Strange Beauties
Melissa Holbrook Pierson wrestles with the allure of lost, and found, photos. Continue reading
Found in Translation – Chasing Dante’s Inferno with Mary Jo Bang and Patricia Cronin
As Dante spends Easter week crossing over to the other side in the Inferno so too Colleen Asper follows recent translations of his epic work in painting by Patricia Cronin and poetry by Mary Jo Bang. Continue reading
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Tagged Colleen Asper, Dante, Mary Jo Bang, Patricia Cronin, The Inferno
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You Talking To Me?
Jeff Nishball takes on grammar, friends, and parents — not to mention dangling prepositions, absolutes made more absolute, homonyms, and pronunciations. Continue reading
The Man Behind The Curtain
Charles Krafft, an avowed white supremacist, flew under the radar of the national art scene for years under the guise of a postmodern iconoclast. Now he’s been exposed. But why did it take so long? Why weren’t we willing to listen close enough? Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged art, Charles Krafft, L. Frank Baum, White Nationalism, Wicked, Wizard of Oz
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My Year of Horror: March Madness
Your shrink will have a field day with this month’s twisted psychotics, neurotics and schizophrenics, coming around to fill your life with horror. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror, The Arts
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Massey, Catherine Deneuve, Emeric Pressberger, Frenzy, Hitchcock, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, Michael Powell, Moira Shearer, Pino Donaggio, Powell & Pressberger, Repulsion, Rob Reiner, Roman Polanski, Stephen King, The Fan, The Red Shoes, William Goldman
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The End of the End of Everything: Fiction’s Fretful Futures, Part IV
In Part IV, of his 4-part series, Sam Byers looks at why the novel is dying and just why and how technology might save it. Continue reading
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Tagged Idiopathy, Keith Ridgway, Tao Lin, Technology, the internet, the novel, Thomas Harris, Zadie Smith
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Shelf Love
Restocking the stacks has never been this fun. Continue reading
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Tagged arrangements, books, Bret Easton Ellis, Bryan Charles, can't do THIS on a Kindle, Celine, Diana Spechler, Donna Tartt, Elfriede Jelinek, Elizabeth Eslami, Francine Prose, fun with books, Ian McEwan, Jillian Lauren, Joe Queenan, Jonathan Tropper, Kate Zambreno, Lenore Zion, Malcolm Gladwell, Miranda July, Rachel McKibbens, Rick Moody, Shya Scanlon, sorting systems, stacks, Wesley Stace
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Downton Abbey: Innocence in the Age of Irony
Tom Gualtieri explains the secret of the hit show’s popularity. Continue reading
The End of the End of Everything: Fiction’s Fretful Futures, Part III
In Part III, of his 4-part series, Sam Byers looks at why the novel is dying and just why and how technology might save it. Continue reading
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Tagged Idiopathy, Sjón, Technology, the internet, the novel, The Thick of It
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