Philippe Diaz's The End of Poverty? plays like a video version of "Neoliberalism for Dummies" in the best and worst ways. Exploring how different segments of the developing world remain in grinding poverty, Diaz traces the legacy of colonialism to...

Through 1907, when Vasily Kandinsky was entering his forties, he was a regional artist of little consequence. He had yet to make a painting that was all his. Then something happened. 'Kandinsky,' a major retrospective on view at the Guggenheim...

_ El cineasta Stanley Sunday a.k.a. Davidson a.k.a. David Domingo acaba de inaugurar su nueva web bajo su primer alias Stanley Sunday. Su anterior blog Película Sudorosa nos reenvía a una web visualmente espléndida dividida principalmente en dos secciones. Trabajando en... está hecha de...

As a group of people, the Beat writers seem, by-and-large, to have been a particularly obnoxious bunch. In a lot of cases, being on the road seems to have just been an opportunity to have run away from their responsibilities to family and friends. Any number of them were alcoholics, drug addicts...

Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: Art versus books, a critical double standard & Typo, a monthly newspaper & literary review 1887-1897 (via Leftunderbooks / @davidbmetcalfe) & ‘All That’, a story by David Foster Wallace in the New Yorker & More What...

by Ryland Walker Knight —Don't look back.

The three women in front of me were talking about the big demi-anniversary sale at Walmart and how they’d gotten time off from their cleaning jobs and were going down together. “Is it that big?” I asked. “Oh yeah,” they said, “50% off all children’s clothes, shoes and school supplies.” Everything...

DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator. DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU. FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.������ TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY. ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY… 1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the...

by Ryland Walker Knight —Quick, before we think.