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D. GRAHAM BURNETT: Cornel, it feels like a good time to have a serious conversation about a difficult text. And I figured we could dig right in, since it is a premise of Melville's The Confidence-Man that here in the United States perfect strangers can walk right up ...

Metaphysics, money &am...

Artist : Herman Melville

uploaded : Jan 28, 2009

by : Marc Lafia

Herman Melville's "The Confidence Man" If you really want to understand the heart of darkness that defines American society, it is necessary to read Herman Melville. While Melville has the reputation of being a combination yarn-spinner and serious noveli...

Herman Melville's &quo...

Artist : Herman Melville

uploaded : Jan 27, 2009

by : Marc Lafia

‘Grey sky no cloud no sound no stir earth ash grey sand. Little body same grey as the earth sky ruins only upright. Ash grey all sides earth sky as one all sides endlessness.’2 Thus the nameless protagonist of Lessness (published in French as Sans -literally ‘with...

Purgatory unpurged: ti...

Artist : Samuel Beckett

uploaded : Jan 26, 2009

by : Marc Lafia

For several months after my friend Elizabeth died, when I was sixteen, I would be awakened in the middle of the night by the feeling of a nearby shape. Not Elizabeth herself; but something like the outline of her clothes, or the slope of her shoulders abstracted in...

Doomed to Walk

Artist : William Shakespeare

uploaded : Jan 26, 2009

by : Marc Lafia

<b>The time is Japan in the 1400s. The place is a mythical forest where monstrous animal-gods dwell. </b>A forest princess who has been raised by wolf-gods pits herself against nature-defiling industrialists. This is the essence of Hayao Miyazaki's "...

A+C Viewpoint: Hayao M...

Artist : Hayao Miyazaki

uploaded : Jan 25, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Works The distinctive "large eyes" style of Japanese animation was invented by Tezuka,[2] who based it on cartoons of the time such as Max Fleischer's Betty Boop and Walt Disney's Bambi and Mickey Mouse. As an indication of his productivity, the Complete...

Osamu Tezuka Works

Artist : Osamu Tezuka

uploaded : Jan 23, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Her novel Wild Swans smashed best-selling records worldwide. So what made Jung Chang then devote 10 years of her life to researching a hefty political biography of Chairman Mao? There was a moment in the early 1990s when everybody everywhere seemed to be reading W...

'This book will shake ...

Artist : Jung Chang

uploaded : Jan 23, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Obituary Jason Rhoades Controversial American pop sculptor famed for his colourful installations and his restless, challenging spirit Jerry Saltz The Guardian, Saturday 12 August 2006 According to Robert Rauschenberg, "the sex of art is narrative":...

Jason Rhodes

uploaded : Jan 22, 2009

by : Marc Lafia

<b>Conversation</b> Participants: IV Hans Ulrich Obrist TS Thomas Scheibitz IV I would like to begin with the question of how your work relates to architecture. How do you see the interface between art and architecture? Do you draw...

Interview with Hans Ul...

Artist : Thomas Scheibitz

uploaded : Jan 20, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

As founder of the country’s first experimental film society, Cinema 16 (the ‘16’ referring to 16mm) in the late 1940’s, Amos Vogel forged the promotion and exhibition of the avant-garde and underground. After it folded in 1968, he founded the Lincoln Center Film De...

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Artist : Amos Vogel

uploaded : Jan 20, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

From WWD Hedi Slimane, the hollow-eyed waif designer for whom Karl Lagerfeld lost 90 pounds, is out at Dior Homme, according to WWD’s redoubtable Paris bureau chief, Miles Socha. Even though Slimane is an international superstar who single-handedly made a moribund...

Hedi Out At Dior

Artist : Hedi Slimane

uploaded : Jan 19, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

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Artist : Vitaly

uploaded : Jan 19, 2009

by : Vitaly