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Lynne Cooke at The Burlington Magazine: Visionaries are fundamental to the avant-gardes that appeared in Europe in the inter-war years. Few, however, were as prescient, pragmatic and tactical as Sonia
Continue readingHow Sonia Delaunay Paved the Way for Wearable Art as We Know it
If a slot machine is a one-armed bandit,what does that make you? A cyclopeantroll? I don’t think it will catch on.Maybe there’s nothing poetic about you.A friend’s mother died the other day,and it
Samuel Kimbriel at Wisdom of Crowds: This week, I’ve been re-reading Better Never to Have Been, a book by the South African Philosopher, David Benatar.The book begins with the following
A poet who I respect told me the other night thatmy stuff wasn’t really poetry because: A.) There were too many jokes,B.) I didn’t slice enough arteries,andC.) It was… Gork.
I chanced across my old selftoday. I was sitting in the secondfloor office where I used to work —at the typewriter, young, thin guy,in his late 20’s, white shirt, narrowdark
There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphilland the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadowsnear a meetinghouse abandoned by the persecutedwho disappeared into those
You asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his…. golden feet?I reply, the ocean knows this.You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent bell?…. What
Erik Davis at The Paris Review: The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in a dilapidated shotgun Victorian in San Francisco’s Mission District, which also happens to be the
By Faye Ginsburg and B. Ruby Rich at Film Quarterly Dossier: This dossier has been inspired by an unprecedented and exciting surge in New Disability Media, a movement in which
Tell me there is a way to believe it all,an exit strategy with groggy murmursof nothing but rest and a quiet universe. All I can think of is my child,
Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk,
To learn more about your new Kenmore washer, break the plastic seal.—from the manufacturer’s instructions I’ve a friend who says, “Treat anything mechanicalas if it’s just about to break.”I’ve a