![]() If any of this sounds familiar, you’ve been in the presence of research-based art. Every object on display is accompanied by a lengthy explanatory caption written by the artist, also available as a pamphlet. An illuminated table is covered in papers and newspaper clippings marked up with Post-its. Nearby, a 16-mm film whirs alongside a soporific voice-over. In a darkened corner, a slide projector clunks slowly through a carousel of images. On a bank of video monitors, talking heads are explaining something. Another is covered in hundreds of seemingly identical photographs. ![]() One gallery wall is plastered with graphs and charts. A plywood shelving unit holds rows of informational leaflets. POSTCARDS, FAXES, AND EMAIL PRINTOUTS lie wanly in a vitrine. ![]() View of “Wolfgang Tillmans: truth study center,” 2005, Maureen Paley, London. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments The innocents abroad first edition![]() ![]() The result is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and "frauds," and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe-to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Dhalgren![]() ![]() ![]() Angelo Madsen Minax’ Surreal Documentaries.Residency Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Go Out.Julius Eastman: Composer, Performer, Iconoclast.Coming to Terms with the ‘Gay Holocaust’.Marshall Moore, Expat Writer with Southern Roots.How Italy’s Anti-Mask Law Was Weaponized.Kenneth Williams Never Stopped Carrying On.Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel.George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie.Inside Ukraine: An lgbtq Leader Speaks Out.For the mind, the very attempt at transcendence makes its own prison: exile. Even when the mind revolts from the body’s abuses, it does not escape them. Juridical and social homophobia, physical arrests and confinements, find their parallel in psychological structures. This much-abused body has a mind which is neither a single nor a separate entity but shares its fears with others who are equally persecuted for their sexuality. In the relationship between pleasure and power for Foucault, the homosexual body is a bruised and weary fetish, due to the wringer it has been put through. ![]() While reading Foucault’s work, the word incarceration is evocative, palpable, you can smell it: the fleshy confinement, the ripeness. Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish and A History of Sexuality, examines regimes of incarceration, played out on specific, arrested bodies but resonant with generalized experience. THE BODIES AND MINDS of homosexual men have historically been subject to both real and psychological prisons. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The people could fly picture book![]() ![]() The picture-book format allows room for the relationship to develop between Sarah, who labors in the cotton fields with an infant strapped to her back, and Toby, the "old man," who utters the magic African words that give her flight. They couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships. ![]() The ones that could fly shed their wings. On the following spread, images of the Middle Passage set a fittingly somber tone, depicting Africans who "were captured for Slavery. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic," opens the narrative, as the full-color artwork reveals elegant, beautifully clothed individuals with feathered wings serenely ascending into the sky. Making dramatic use of shadow and light, Leo and Diane Dillon (whose half-tone illustrations also graced the original volume) ably convey the tale's simultaneous messages of oppression and freedom, of sadness and hope. Resplendent, powerful paintings by these two-time Caldecott-winning artists bring new life to the title story from the late Hamilton's 1985 collection, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. By Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon ![]() ![]() ![]() What we have here is an academic paper puffed into a book, written by one who does not respect his reader. ![]() His most recent book, Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity, is due to be published in November 2018 and for the first time it shifts the focus of his work directly onto our modern world. He continues to write and teach, working to make the spirituality and meditative disciplines of Empedocles, Parmenides, and those like them available to people today. ![]() His more recent works emphasize the lived experience and daily application of the ancient mystical tradition that helped give rise to the western world. Kingsley's early writings are traditionally academic, and culminate in the 1995 Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. He is a former Fellow of the Warburg Institute in London and has held honorary professorships or fellowships at universities in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. He received his BA from the University of Lancaster, his Master of Letters from King's College, Cambridge University, and his PhD from the University of London. Classical scholar and spiritual teacher Peter Kingsley was born in the UK. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The foghorn echoes![]()
5/22/2023 0 Comments Brandon taylor real life![]() ![]() It might have had something to do with the crowds, the insistence of other people’s bodies, the way the birds circled overhead, then dive-bombed the tables to grab food or root around at their feet, as though even they were socializing. It had been a couple of years since he had gone to the lake with his friends, a period of time that embarrassed him because it seemed to demand an excuse and he did not have one. Wallace stood on an upper platform looking down into the scrum, trying to find his particular group of white people, thinking also that it was still possible to turn back, that he could go home and get on with his evening. Overhead, gulls drifted easy as anything. The air was heavy with their good times as the white people scattered across the tiered patios, pried their mouths apart, and beamed their laughter into each other’s faces. People coveted these last blustery days of summer before the weather turned cold and mercurial. It was a cool evening in late summer when Wallace, his father dead for several weeks, decided that he would meet his friends at the pier after all. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments American psycho less than zero![]() As that project, along with the rest of Ellis’s work, shows, he has an understanding of how to sum up the zeitgeist by staying a tick or two ahead of it like few living artists have, especially over the length of a career like his. ![]() Perhaps most notably, the same year he started The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, he collaborated with director Paul Schrader on 2013’s infamous 2013 erotic thriller The Canyons, a critical punching bag starring Lindsay Lohan.Īnd though he’s done plenty since then, the experience of watching The Canyons-and of seeing everyone have and share an opinion about it-still resonates with me. Started a podcast that was for public consumption in 2013 and moved it to a Patreon-funded subscription-only platform in 2018. He created and directed a web series, and wrote three movies. ![]() But he’s certainly kept busy in the time between publishing Imperial Bedrooms, in 2010, and his latest book (out last week), The Shards. Up until this week, it had been over a decade since Bret Easton Ellis last put out a novel. ![]() ![]() The illustrations are crowded with swarms of restaurant-goers whose mouths show perpetual astonishment, but the staging is clumsy, too. As the chaos spreads, the lines become jarring: "Here comes Enzo, full of spaghetti, chasing his cat, whose name is Lettie, hoping to catch her, but she thinks not and runs through the room, wearing the pot that was jostled and spilled." The result is a glorified food fight. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rhyme scheme gets the better of Polacco, with awkward rhythms that deviate from the pattern. The prolific Polacco ( The Trees of the Dancing Goats, 1996, etc.) tells a cumulative tale of the mayhem that ensues when a bee lands on a tree at an outdoor restaurant, setting off a frenzied chain of events "The House That Jack Built" provides the blueprint-"This is the bee that stopped on a tree in Enzo's splendid gardens." A boy who drops his book to look at a bee causes the waiter to trip, splashing a drink on a matron, forcing ladies to trip and spill their tea, resulting in a man face down in the dessert tray, who jostles the chef, and so forth. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Frederick lionni![]() ![]() He was art director of Fortune magazine between 1949-62, professor of design at Cooper Union College, New York, and designed the American pavilion for the Brussels World Fair in 1958. From 1922-24, he was with his family in Brussels, spent a year in America, and finally moved to Italy, where he attended high school, started work as a commercial artist and simultaneously studied for a degree in economics at the University of Genoa.Īt the outbreak of the second world war, he emigrated to America, where he worked in advertising, commissioning artists such as de Kooning, Calder, Moore and Ben Shahn to do posters and advertisements. His father was a diamond-cutter and his mother a singer of his uncles, one was an architect, and two collected modern art. He was also a painter and an outstanding sculptor, and his work was exhibited in museums in New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Cologne, Rome and at the Venice Biennale. ![]() Many of Lionni's books became classics in Europe, America and Japan, even though his popularity in Britain was never as great. ![]() |