Theme: Art
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.Read more
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A collection of the works of Juan Gris (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927).Read more
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More paintings, featuring paintings.Read more
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Views From Somewhere (Unkempt Kitchen) balances in the charged and overlapping space between the sensorial body and the (re)presentational gesturing body. an assemblage of images, feelings, and memories, the dance moves through a multiplicity of contexts while remaining shaped by both real and imagined memories of our mothers and their generationRead more
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Alex Stein calls poetry “the alphabet zoo.” “We convene on the grounds of the alphabet zoo, and see what there is to see,” he says. “They are all poets,” Alex continues. “Nietzsche, too. And Kafka. If the term is to have any meaning at all.Read more
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A collection of paintings, featuring paintings.Read more
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Poet Richard Siken begins his “Dirty Valentine” by confessing, “There are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you. / I touch myself, I dream.” I do, too. We live in a confessional culture wherein the most detailed minutiae of everyday life is splayed out via the platform of social media to be pinched black and blue, critiqued and celebrated.Read more
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The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool—as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.Read more
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“One of the saddest things is that I go and talk to artists and dancers etc. and they expect that because I can tell them something about brain correlates, then I can tell them something more profound about what it is they do!”, Iain McGilchrist tells me. “And I keep saying to them, ‘No, you’re the ones that know the most about what you do, this is just an incidental way of thinking about it.’”Read more
