Category Archives: The Arts

Four Foolproof Ways to Become a Rich, Famous, and Critically-Acclaimed Novelist

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Greg Olear

Against the wishes of his editors, agents, publicists, and fellow novelists, Greg Olear reveals publishing’s best-kept secrets. Continue reading →

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Man Up – On Art and Masculinity in London

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Zakia Uddin

What does it take to be a man – or to make art from the subject of masculinity? As the Xs and Ys that define gender seem less fixed, Zakia Uddin investigates. Continue reading →

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The Dream of the 90s: Where Did All The Anger Go? 1993 at the New Museum

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jennifer Kabat

Haunted by the past, Jennifer Kabat takes on the New Museum’s 1993 show and examines the era’s disappearance and recent reappearance in the art world Continue reading →

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Strange Beauties

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Melissa Holbrook Pierson wrestles with the allure of lost, and found, photos. Continue reading →

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Found in Translation – Chasing Dante’s Inferno with Mary Jo Bang and Patricia Cronin

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Colleen Asper

As Dante spends Easter week crossing over to the other side in the Inferno so too Colleen Asper follows recent translations of his epic work in painting by Patricia Cronin and poetry by Mary Jo Bang. Continue reading →

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You Talking To Me?

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Jeff Nishball

Jeff Nishball takes on grammar, friends, and parents — not to mention dangling prepositions, absolutes made more absolute, homonyms, and pronunciations. Continue reading →

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The Man Behind The Curtain

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Samuel Sattin

Charles Krafft, an avowed white supremacist, flew under the radar of the national art scene for years under the guise of a postmodern iconoclast. Now he’s been exposed. But why did it take so long? Why weren’t we willing to listen close enough? Continue reading →

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