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Dave Hickey had a hell of a month. He announced his retirement from the art world to The Observer: “What can I tell you?” he said. “It’s nasty and it’s stupid. I’m an intellectual and I don’t care if I’m not invited to the party. I quit.” …
Published on November 27, 2012 21:49. Filed under: Art, Columbia, Essays, Uncategorized Tags: Art, Clippings, Essay, Oxford American, Profile
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Are the big publishing houses using independent presses as a farm league to scout for talent, and exiting the market for big-gamble debuts? James McGirk reports.
Published on June 13, 2013 11:24. Filed under: Clippings, Essays Tags: Clippings, Essays, The Daily Beast
After writing a spate of reasonably successful—and very autobiographical—novels, James Ellroy and Martin Amis took the cities surrounding them and used them as test beds, experimenting with new voices and forms and populating this familiar terrain with doppelgangers and villains and foils and sexual obsessions.
Published on June 10, 2013 12:02. Filed under: Clippings, Essays Tags: 3quarksdaily, Clippings, Essay
June 3rd, 2013 Cover
16 Minutes
Tornado-Ravaged Moore Takes First Steps to Recovery
Wrenching Decisions as Tornado Flattens School
Published on June 6, 2013 11:21. Filed under: Clippings Tags: Clippings, Heavy Weather, Oklahoma, Reporting, TIME
This Land Press cover Cherokee Nation has what seems to be an unusual fixation with lawyers and writing—at least for an outsider looking in. Cherokee museums are dense with detail about treaties, newspapers, and literacy.
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Cherokee Nation has what seems to be an unusual fixation with lawyers and writing—at least for an outsider looking in. Cherokee museums are dense with detail about treaties, newspapers, and literacy.
Published on June 5, 2013 12:44. Filed under: Clippings, Essays Tags: Cherokee Nation, Clippings, Essay, History, Oklahoma, This Land Press
The Moranbong Band is best imagined as a North Korean version of Celtic Woman: an all-female ensemble band swaddled in fetching formalwear, blasting highly produced, energetic nationalist kitsch. Of course, no matter how much vigorous fiddling Chloe, Lisa, Susan and Mairead can manage, Celtic Woman is unlikely to attract as much scrutiny from intelligence agencies as the Moranbong Band’s cover of Bill Conti’s “Gonna Fly Now”, which is perhaps better known as the theme from Rocky, and was performed – complete with a video backdrop featuring cuts of Sylvester Stallone working out – for none other than Kim Jong-un, the number one of the sinister and secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Published on May 20, 2013 09:32. Filed under: Essays, Interstitial Tags: 3quarksdaily, Clippings, Essay, North Korea
Chevideco, the Belgian horse meat conglomerate, touts a single story in its press section: a taste test held at a west London home was arranged by Sir Peter Bazalgette, who writes a column for the Financial Times and chairs Britain’s Arts Council.
Published on May 2, 2013 17:26. Filed under: Clippings, Essays Tags: Clippings, Horse Slaughter, Oklahoma, This Land Press
Assuming my issue of EYE SPY, a British glossy devoted to “The Covert World of Espionage,” can be trusted, between 1973 and 1995 the United States government (and its Chinese and Soviet rivals) spent millions hiring teams of personnel to scry photographs of enemy installations and describe their heretofore unknowable innards.
Published on April 24, 2013 11:53. Filed under: Essays Tags: Clippings, Essay, Paris Review, Review
In 1998, James McGirk spent five weeks living and working in Arcosanti, a desert community built in the 1970s that attempts to use ornate architectural planning to help create a harmonious society. Its designer, Frank Lloyd Wright disciple Paolo Soleri, passed away this week at age 93; McGirk remembers his experiences at the location and his interactions with Soleri.
Published on April 11, 2013 17:53. Filed under: Art, Clippings Tags: Architecture, Arcosanti, Clippings, Wired
Published on April 11, 2013 00:00. Filed under: Interstitial, Uncategorized
There is no better analogy for contemporary art than Conway’s Game of Life. This is not the same thing as The Game of Life, which is played on a board and simulates the education and subsequent useful employment of a human being. Conway’s Game of Life is a math game, an evolution simulator simple enough to be played on a checkerboard, but most often encountered on a computer. In the game, three rules govern whether or not an individual “cell” lives, dies or reproduces.
Published on March 27, 2013 12:05. Filed under: Art, Clippings, Essays Tags: 3am magazine, Art, Clippings, Essays
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