Tag Archives: art

The Red Thread, The Rainbow Reader Part I

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Tessa Laird

Part I of Tessa Laird’s 6-part series on the social history of color takes in the dark beating heart of red, moving from the personal to the political from Marx to the Middle East. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Alexander Theroux, Antony Gormley, art, ayahuasca, Color, Derek Jarman, goethe, John Berger, Karl Marx, Labour, newton, Wiliam Gass | Leave a comment

Rap Game Campbell’s Soup: Riff Raff, Andy Warhol, and the Art of Branding

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Sam Behrens

Sam Behrens discusses the enigma of hip hop’s mythical unicorn Riff Raff, Andy Warhol, the “Rap Game”, and how packaging — not content — is the key to success in the music industry. Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Popular Culture | Tagged Andy Warhol, art, avant garde, Kitsch, MTV, Music, Pop culture, Riff Raff | Leave a comment

Lynne Tillman Will Save Your Life

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Jennifer Kabat

Over the next two Sundays, we’ll be running pieces by the great Lynne Tillman. This is Jennifer Kabat’s introduction to one of the finest essay writers of our age. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged art, expat writing, Frieze, Jane Bowles, Lynne Tillman, Paul Bowles | Leave a comment

The Highest Luxury: Reading Ranciere and the Beauty of Forgetting

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Jarret Middleton

“Culture closely resembles life, but it is mimicry, facsimile, a reproduction of an origin never experienced in the first place. What is left are zombie forms, mechanically driven animations of death.” Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged art, butthole surfers, culture, death, Jacques Ranciere, jarrett middleton, philisophy, pt anderson, spacemen 3, stalker, Syd Barrett, tarkovsky, the highest luxury, what is beauty? | 1 Comment

Exposed: Portrait of the Artist as a 7-Minute Reality TV Segment

Posted on November 26, 2013 by MariNaomi

The artist sells out. Or tries to. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged art, bad art and good, cancer, selling out | 3 Comments

Sunday Sermon : Synthesis

Posted on October 6, 2013 by The Editors

“..And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the merging of image and text defining a new form of communication should be killed…” Continue reading →

Posted in Sunday Sermon | Tagged art, beach, body, bus stop, closing distance, discrepancy, Eternity, future, Hank Cherry, juxtapose, linger, Nic Bettauer, now, perspective, photo, photography, spectral, spectrum, street photography, synthesis, The Weeklings, Venice | Leave a comment

Stella’s Art Project

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Sean Beaudoin

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 | 6 Comments