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Swinging Modern Sounds #2: A Post Somewhat About Jazz
Arthur Danto, the Columbia University philosophy professor and frequent writer on contemporary art, has often referred to this “historical present” as a time after the history of art. What he seems to mean about this, I think, is that once Warhol…
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The Artist And The Goldfish
Artist Marco Evaristti was given consent by American inmate Gene Hathorn to feed his body to goldfish for the sake of art. Hathorn was found guilty of murdering his father, stepmother, and stepbrother in 1985 and has been on death…
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Rumpus Original – On Teaching Poetry To Women In Prison
I was nineteen. Prison seemed sexy and foreign—as did most forbidden things. Maybe I wanted to seem tough. Maybe I needed something to differentiate me from all the other over-achieving, world-traveled students at the university I attended. Maybe I felt…
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The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Acts of Nostalgia My old friend Nate sent me this picture yesterday, taken some 17 years ago. That’s me in the middle, playing drums, wearing a pith helmet onto which is adhered a lit candle. The guy playing bass to…
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A-18, A New Blog About The Back Of The Newspaper, by Ross Tuttle
Last Letter in the Alphabet – Zimbabwe Can we fault Sarah Palin for knowing little about Africa? (alright – it turns out she actually does know it’s a continent) But if she’s fuzzy on its whereabouts (after all, it’s not…
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The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Double Features I created an account on The Auteurs a couple weeks ago. It’s an addictive site for film nerds started by a company working in close collaboration with The Criterion Collection. Right now it’s in beta. It’s a message…
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The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
I mentioned in my inaugural post that I’d recently watched The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith. The movie is about a man who struggles to support his family as a salesman of bone density scanners in San Francisco. Business…
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Funny America, A New Political Humor Blog by Will Durst
THE CLUELESS CUP In an upset worthy of Marin Day School covering the spread against the Green Bay Packers through the first three quarters of a spirited scrimmage at Lambeau Field, the coveted Clueless Cup appears to be on the…
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How Western Pop Music is Being Used as ‘Touchless Torture’ by the American military
From Frieze Magazine: “As reported by the BBC, the Guardian, the Associated Press, Newsweek, The Nation, Mother Jones, SPIN and others (while mocked by right-wing columnists from the Chicago Tribune and The New York Sun), Western pop music has been…
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Dominoes for Pyros
In 1987 Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss used common household items and the laws of nature to form a 100-foot-long chain reaction. They lit it, filmed it, and called it “The Way Things Go.” More weekend project ideas…
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Stencil Nation
A subdivision of the spray-can Graffit isubversion is stenciling. Requiring less skill and less time, stencil artists simply put down a piece of paper with text or images carefully removed, and lay down a coat of paint. This offshoot of…
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The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Introduction I think the best criteria for judging the quality of a film is whether you’re still thinking about it a week after you watched it. Then there are those films we return to in our thoughts time and time…