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- 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
I Love New York, Crazy City: The Triumph of Isa Genzken
Tragedy and triumph in New York about New York – Jennifer Kabat on Isa Genzken’s hallucinatory take on the city and the world at MoMA. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Andreas Baader, Benjamin Buchloh, feminism, Gerhard Richter, Germany, Isa Genzken, minimalism, MoMA, New York City, sculpture, the Red Army Faction
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On the Blindness of “WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY”
What is the point of War Photography? Who is it for? And what does it communicate? Chloe Pantazi considers the questions as images of brutality inundate us all. Continue reading
Auctioning Off Utopia
From Christie’s to Chandigarh in India, Jennifer Kabat traces the trafficking of chairs as art in Amie Siegel’s film Provenance. Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, The Arts
Tagged Amie Siegel, Chandigarh, Christie's, contemporary art, Corbusier, Sothebys
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Save the Whales! Save the Opera?
Following the New York City Opera’s closure, Jeremy Polacek ponders the decline of a classic cultural pastime, our emotional relationship to the opera – and what the opera and the dodo might have in common. Continue reading
The Uncertainty Principle: Breaking Down the Last Two Episodes of “Breaking Bad”
As we head into the home stretch of one of the greatest shows of all time, Greg Olear peers into his crystal (meth) ball. One thing’s for sure: no one will be having an A-1 day. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged AMC, Breaking Bad, Heisenberg, Jesse Pinkman, Landry from Friday Night Lights, Manolo Blahniks, meth, Vince Gilligan, Walter White
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Separate But Equal
From Bubble Bobble to Bioshock Infinite, Samuel Sattin explores the evolution of modern gaming, and how it’s come to share in a tenuous relationship with its cousin in cables: film. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged Assassin's Creed, Bioshock Infinite, Bubble Bobble, cinema, Pacific Rim, Video Games
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Stella’s Art Project
Sean Beaudoin begins and ends a year-long art project with his daughter. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged art, avant garde, Charles Mingus, Charles Tyler, Charlie Mingus, Donald Byrd, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Duke Jordan, Elmo hope, Elvis, Eric Dolphy, experiment, Fathers and daughters, Fats Navarro, Funkadelic, Hank Mobley, iPhone, Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones, Jackie Mittoo, Jimmy Smith, Joe Thomas, John Coltrane, Kenny Drew, Lee Morgan, Little Royal, Lou Donaldson, photography, Sonny Red, Sun Ra, Wayne Shorter, Willie Hutch
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