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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Category Archives: The Arts
Almost Getting It Kind of Together
From her vantage point in Greenpoint, Chloe Pantazi examines the relationship between Lena Dunham’s “Girls” and Mary McCarthy’s “The Group.” Continue reading
Posted in Literature, The Arts
Tagged Cafe Grumpy, Girls, Greenpoint, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, Mary McCarthy, The Group, Vassar
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I Sell The Shadow: Civil Wars at the Met
Two Civil War shows at the Met make Jennifer Kabat wonder how the unspeakable nature of war gets translated into art. And what we gain and lose. Continue reading
All’s Good That Ends (Breaking) Bad
With the finale of AMC’s Breaking Bad approaching, Tom Gualtieri looks at the tragedy of Walter White. *Spoilers ahead.* Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Popular Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Aaron Paul, AMC, Anna Gunn, Arthur Miller, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Heisenberg, Jesse Pinkman, King Lear, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Sophocles, Spartacus, Vince Gilligan, Walter White, William Shakespeare, Willy Loman
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Stealing Beauty: Assessing the Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts
How to assess the value of the Detroit Institute of Arts? The week Christie’s is hired for the job, Jennifer Kabat offers her take on the city’s most valuable asset. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Artemisia Gentileschi, bankruptcy, Christie's, Degas, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Diego Rivera, Eva Hesse, Kevyn Orr, Mary Cassatt, Matisse, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Titian
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Rejected Aaron Sorkin TV Show Pitches
Aaron Sorkin came to HBO two years ago with six fully-formed shows for them to choose from. They picked “The Newsroom.” Here are the five they passed on. Continue reading
Pretty On The Inside
Jennifer Sirey’s experiments with science and bacteria make some of the most compelling and disturbing art today. Jennifer Kabat considers them and how women push the boundaries of art today. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Eva Hesse, Feature, feminism, Forrest Bess, Jennifer Sirey, minimalism, On Stellar Rays
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Flowers of the Gutter: Ballet Companies as Brothels from Paris to Russia
Cathy Marie Buchanan on Degas, ballet and the sex scandals of the Bolshoi. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Anastasia Volochkova, Anatoly Iksanov, Ballet, Bolshoi, Cathy Marie Buchanan, Degas, Paris Opera Ballet, Putin, Russia
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