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ROWELL: What occasioned your series called "Lost Boys"? What were you trying to achieve in it? MARSHALL: Well, what brought it about, or where the idea originated, I guess, had something to do with a slightly autobiographical situation. Not myself direc...

Kerry James Marshall

Artist : Kerry James Marshall

uploaded : Apr 12, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Chapter 2 Land of the Cyclops Few Sicilian towns claimed greater antiquity than Gela, where the center of the American assault was to fall. Founded on a limestone hillock by Greek colonists from Rhodes and Crete in 688 b.c., Gela had since endured the usual Me...

Rick Atkinson "Li...

Artist : Rick Atkinson

uploaded : Apr 12, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Dorothea Lange was an extraordinary photographer. Born in 1895, she first worked for Arnold Genthe and studied with Clarence White at Columbia University. In 1918 she started a trip around the world and got only as far as San Francisco and finding herself stranded sh...

Dorothea Lange

Artist : Dorothea Lange

uploaded : Apr 09, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Feminist theater has emerged as a direct result of the feminist movement. Too often theater that is specifically feminist in its intent is categorized as being exclusively by and for women. This label is superficial and rooted in the stereotypical misconceptions plac...

Sandra Bemis

Artist : Eve Ensler Maria Irene Fornes

uploaded : Apr 08, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

EXCERPT II. BUT A DEDICATION IS ONLY FELICITOUS IF PERFORMED BEFORE WITNESSES--IT IS AN ESSENTIALLY PUBLIC SURRENDER LIKE THAT OF STANDARDS OF BATTLE You know I was married years ago and when he left my husband took my notebooks. Wirebound notebooks. You know...

Anne Carson

Artist : Anne Carson

uploaded : Apr 06, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

The Story of Qiu Ju (Chinese: 秋菊打官司; pinyin: Qiū Jú dǎ guān sī; literally "Qiu Ju goes to court") is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role. The screenplay is an a...

Zhang Yimou's "Th...

Artist : Zhang Yimou

uploaded : Mar 31, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

The Human League - Don't You Want Me. 1981 With a hit album and three hit singles in a row Virgin's Simon Draper decided to pull one more single from the album before the end of 1981. Their choice of "Don't You Want Me" instantly caused a row with Oakey wh...

Human League

Artist : Human League

uploaded : Mar 19, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Did you hear from him again? Carlos: He sent me a letter from Africa—it was on hotel stationary. Old fashioned letter head, cheap paper. It got wet somehow. So, I couldn’t read half of it. But, in the first line he asked my forgiveness. It seemed like he was sayin...

Queer Skins 1

Artist : Vera X.

uploaded : Mar 18, 2009

by : Vera X.

Italian -born artist Luca Buvoli has consistently reinterpretedFuturism in innovative and effective ways, culling inspiration from the seminal avant - garde movement’s central themes. The artist’s current exhibition at this gallery commemorates the hundred -year anni...

Luca Buvoli: Review of...

Artist : Luca Buvoli

uploaded : Mar 17, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Debord's Nostalgic Algorithm Alexander R. Galloway Published in Culture Machine #10 (2009): 131-156. 'I await the end of Cinema with optimism,' Jean-Luc Godard announced in 1965. And indeed the end was near. 'The cinema seems to me to be over,' was Guy Debord'...

Debord's Nostalgic Alg...

Artist : Guy Debord

uploaded : Mar 16, 2009

by : Marc Lafia

The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break Or talking money or politics while one fitted This armpiece with its over...

Robert Pinsky's 'The S...

Artist : Robert Pinsky

uploaded : Mar 16, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Poem by Robert Pinsky "Samurai Song" When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. When I had No supper my eyes dined. When I had no eyes I listened. When I had no ears I thought. When I had no thought I waited. When I had no father I made Ca...

Robert Pinsky's 'Samur...

Artist : Robert Pinsky

uploaded : Mar 16, 2009

by : Chris Vroom