Life Beneath the Freeways The Photography of Jon Rendell
The Possibilities of Pastels
Artists have used pastels and created works on paper since the Renaissance, but when we think of the medium, we generally visualize Renoirs or gentle landscapes and still lifes of 19th century vintage.
Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
The Play's the ThingDrive My Car, Parallel Mothers
A performance of a classic play is the main action of one much-honored recent movie and a major subtext in another.
Miles David Moore
"Immersive Frida Kahlo"in San Francisco
What was the idea behind it, I kept wondering. It was neither a biography nor a serious portrait of the artist, but a conglomerate, a potpourri that remained opaque, meaningless.
Renate Stendhal
Commentary
MaterialismI have been thinking that it's really not helpful to speak about "materialism" as if it were a unitary belief system that someone "holds." Michael Bettencourt To Eat Or Not To BeAmerica has no cuisine, it has Walmart. But it also has, in its vast, chaotic geography and culture, the joy of tastes of cuisines from almost every cooking culture in the world. Arthur Danin Adler Trash I've had a year-and-a-half of therapy to wrestle with all kinds of demons and sit with the feeling it is all kinda pointless because we're all human and this is all just so common.Claudine Jones The Watergate Since the 1970's, "Watergate" has been used as a metaphor for scandal. Remove "water" and add any term with the suffix " -gate" attached and you have created a scandal du jour. Les Marcott Edward Hopper and the Tourist From SyracuseIt evoked for me the opening scene of the 1946 film version of The Killers in which the hit men arrive in the small town and approach the diner. Gregory Luce The Education of a Connoisseur Part 4: Continuing EducationThe most rewarding way I've learned about wine has been to visit vineyards and meet with great vignerons. Those tours have been my postgraduate symposia. Patrick Walsh
The Skinny at the KGB Bar Steiny was giddy with unkind glee to think that a 'Krainian has appropriated the name of Vladimir Putin's feared alma mater. We know that Putin fears poets and other truthtellers.Karren Alenier
Visual Poems
Marie Antionette said let 'em eat cake. Bill's answer when serfs come a-beggin' let 'em eat vegan!David Alpaugh
Return to First Principles: Kandinsky, Chaliapin, Martha Graham Lissa Tyler Renaud
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What is difficult is cherished. That which is difficult to do and takes a long time is worth more. Janine Yasovant
Once Again, It Was Almost Time to Go Pregnant the figure eight that I drew on manikins abandoned upstairs at the factory! We servants of the infinite had traveled far from our own coast.Brian George
images
Along the Journey into JuneThe Art of Philip Gerstein
Painting Creatures at Play Writings Rascals, Lascars, and Scholars The Art of David Wiley
The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective
When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying,a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth
Patrick NagelIt's in the Eyes
99%Glyph2
writings
Henry James Altenir Silva In 1880, at a railway station, a man in his late thirties is sitting on the bench. A woman in her early twenties approaches and sits next to him. She picks up a book from her purse. It is the first edition of "Washington Square" by Henry James.
Sundown Over Varmint Gulch Spence Porter On Me? Yes? An interview? Why, I don't, that is, I'm rather in a, you know I have so little, that is, I am Time, but you know what I —Do? Why, why, I, I pass mostly. Yes, I pass. Fly? Oh no no. Yes, well I live so much in the past—or is it the future?
media
Audio
Theatre Thoughts An entertaining array of audio essays on an array of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist
You Don't Say! Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer
Video
Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue
Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, and the green dance of blue and yellow lasers
Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back
The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do
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