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2018–04–03 Temporarily disconnected
Thomas Demand. Daily #30. 2017. Framed dye transfer print, 26 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches; 67 × 55 cm.
2018–02–16 Mike Royko at the Chicago Daily News, 1970s
2018–02–16 In the early 1940s, Charles and Ray Eames spent several years developing and refining a technique for moulding plywood into three-dimensional shapes, ...
2018–02–15 Poster for Rashomon (1950) by Hans Hillmann
2018–02–13 Elaine May, during the filming of A New Leaf (1971).
2018–02–01 (Media)
2018–02–01 Drawings for Pegasus by Berthold Wolpe, 1938
2018–01–31 (Media)
2018–01–31 Good Liver web design by LLC Data
2018–01–26 That 70’s Show (2012)
Halfway between the coasts sat Texas, where hundreds of honky-tonks functioned as Nashville’s farm system. But that music belonged to the old guard. ...
2018–01–11 Degas, to George Moore
Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? … I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, ...
2018–01–09 'Magisterial but muffled'
In her mid-twenties, [Elizabeth Hardwick] had befriended the singer [Billie Holiday] in New York. In darkling fashion, her [1976 NYRB] essay recalls ...
2018–01–09 Equilibriums
In the late nineteen-twenties, the physiologist Walter Cannon coined the term “homeostasis”—joining together the Greek homoios (similar) and ...
2017–12–20 Free jazz
Even [Fred Moten’s] earliest journal publications are intensely idiosyncratic. It’s as if he were convinced he had to invent his own tools in ...
2017–12–20 Poster from Design Quarterly 104: Julia’s Kitchen A Design Anatomy
2017–12–18 A black and white photograph from 1958 shows Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí on a hot August day in Cadaqués, on the east coast of Spain. The ...
2017–12–15 The Pouncer, a hundred-and-forty-five-pound edible glider, with a ten-foot wingspan, is designed to be released from a cargo plane as far as sixty ...
2017–12–15 Kindling
One afternoon, I met a woman named Anna Piperal at the e-Estonia Showroom. Piperal is the “e-Estonia ambassador”; the showroom is a permanent ...
2017–11–29 Elaine Lustig Cohen in her studio (New York, 1969)
2017–11–27 Photos by Katie Kline
2017–11–27 Mexico City. Photo by Coral Saucedo
2017–10–30 Marlowe's Kit
quote This is only the beginning of Marlowe’s knowledge. He possesses a fantastical power to name the things of the world – an astonishing vocabulary of ...
2017–10–30 Photo by Bobby Doherty. Food Styling by Michelle Gatton. Prop Styling by Noemi Bonazzi. … when I was about 14, I threw a dinner party for some ...
2017–10–24 Heroes in a half-shell
Michelangelo loathed Leonardo. It’s clear from their work why they might not have got along. Michelangelo’s hard-edged line, even in painting, was ...
2017–10–10 … it is no small burden to possess something as valuable as Joni Mitchell’s talent, and it meant that this girl from the Canadian prairie would ...
2017–10–09 During the glory days of the Apollo project, a young astronomer who analysed Moon rocks at a university laboratory fell in love with my friend Carolyn, ...
2017–10–01 Genesis Belanger at Mrs.
2017–09–14 Prince, “A Case Of U” (1983)
2017–09–12 Early paper maquettes used to explore elevation and shadow affordances in the Material Design system. From California: Designing Freedom, at the Design ...
2017–09–11 Listening to John Ashbery
Ashbery tells the story of the genesis of his poem “Pyrography,” commissioned by the Department of the Interior with a deadline of one day (another ...
2017–09–07 Falafel Sahyoun in Beirut
2017–09–07 Still from Twin Peaks: The Return
2017–09–07 Ricki, don't lose that number
From a letter written by Patrick Leigh Fermor to Enrica Soma in 1961. Soma was a model and ballerina, and the wife of the director John Huston. Fermor ...
2017–09–07 Jonathan Raban to grandmother's house
…When my mother had enough petrol coupons, we’d drive to Granny’s house in Sheringham, a long ride of nearly twenty miles. The narrow, ...
2017–09–05 Design by Jan Lenica,1998
2017–08–25 David Lynch interviewed by Mark Cousins on BBC’s Scene for Scene (1999)
2017–08–25 Benjamin Hirte: ‘Gene Tryp’
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2017–08–23 Kleiner Feigling is a brand of naturally-flavoured fig liquor, made by BEHN in Eckernförde, Germany. The production of Kleiner Feigling started in ...
2017–08–15 Thomas Keymer on Autobiography
text Thomas De Quincey invited comparison with Rousseau in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but relinquished Rousseau’s sense of personal control. ...
2017–08–14 Paul Goldberger quotes Peter Eisenman in a discussion of House VI, published in The New York Times Magazine, March 20, 1977.…the ...
2017–08–08 Gucci Man
Newman’s immensely enjoyable book ranges from the 19th century to the present and rearranges the literary canon with abandon to illuminating and ...
2017–07–28 Michael Penn, “No Myth” (1989)
2017–07–24 Walking in Memphis
Fiorucci, 1984. Via It’s Nice That.This essay was originally published in the inaugural issue of August Journal as “Learning from Milan.” In ...
2017–07–21 (Media)
2017–07–16 An advertisement for FOOD, the artist-run restaurant in SoHo, featuring Carol Goodden’s dog, Glaza, in Avalanche, issue no. 5, summer 1972.
2017–07–14 Gina Telaroli on Twin Peaks, 2017
In the 1970s, the experimental filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos wrote a piece called “Complete Order of the Temenos.” In the years that followed, ...
2017–07–07 Storage boxes arranged and labeled by Girard. Photo: Andreas Sutterlin/Alexander Girard Estate, Vitra Design Museum.
2017–07–05 Hemingway, the Sensualist
From “The Garden of Eden” (1946-/1986) On this morning there was brioche and red raspberry preserve and the eggs were boiled and there was a pat ...
2017–07–05 Studio Ghibli food appreciation thread
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2017–06–26 Marigold harvest, Los Mochis, Mexico, c. 1967. Photo W.E. Garrett.
2017–06–06 Stainless-steel subway cars, known as R32s or Brightliners, at the Grand Street station in Manhattan in 1967. Patrick A. Burns/The New York Times
2017–05–23 Competence porn
text Luc Sante: Jacques Becker’s Le trou, which makes you think that you, too, could escape from prison, and many of Jean-Pierre Melville’s ...
2017–05–22 De Quincey between stone and flowers
He took pains over the task of capturing his voice on the page, writing slowly and calculating his effects with a meticulous eye. He’d been thinking ...
2017–05–15 The Taste Makers (2009)
At the end of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Wonka tells Charlie Bucket that an adult could never run his factory. “Mind you, there are ...
2017–05–12 Stole "Moab" Stojmenov for Migos
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2017–05–02 James Wright: 'A Poem Recreates Itself'
quote John Berryman was a very great poet and I think his work is going to endure. And not just because he was a good craftsman, but because he was ...
2017–04–28 The myth of Kramer-Grotesk
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2017–04–15 From James Schuyler’s “Unlike Joubert,” c. 1970 (?):…All that is clear on this shadowless day under a sky like a shadow is that the ...
2017–02–16 Umberto Eco on 'Krazy Kat' and 'Peanuts' (1985)
quote Charlie Brown has been called the most sensitive child ever to appear in a comic strip, a figure capable of Shakespearean shifts of mood; and ...
2017–02–14 The conservation room at the Whitney Museum. Photograph by Richard Barnes.
2017–02–10 Almodóvar's Near-Misses
text Almodóvar has a fitful friendship with America, the world’s dominant cinematic culture. After “Women on the Verge,” he got many offers from ...
2017–02–07 Denise Scott Brown: ‘The half of it yet’
text Is there still a problem with equal recognition in architecture?I think so. I wanted to work with Bob because there was so much we had in common ...
2017–02–02 Posters by Bráulio Amado
2017–01–26 Clare Bucknell mentions that the young Jonathan Swift was taught to eat asparagus in the ‘Dutch’ fashion at court, adding parenthetically: ...
2017–01–24 Dirk Bogarde, R. W. Fassbinder, Despair (1978)
2017–01–24 Interiors (1978). Production Design by Mel Bourne.
2017–01–06 (Media)
2017–01–02 The GALA Committee
image Still from the Fox TV show Melrose Place, 1992–99. Season 5, episode 9. Kimberly Shaw (Marcia Cross) and Matt Fielding (Doug Savant) with GALA ...
2016–12–13 Still from Cobra (1986)
2016–12–07 Apparently, when Gödel was studying for the U.S. citizenship test in 1948, he found what seemed to him a fatal flaw. “The document,” Ellenberg ...
2016–12–05 'Modal' UIs
quote Gregory Kusnick said, December 5, 2016 @ 1:09 pm Going back to the 1960s, text editors such as TECO used regular alphabetic keys to ...
2016–11–03 Vignette by Pierre Chareau
2016–10–08 Coca cola
quote A few years later I found out “Steely Dan” was actually Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, and that their name was lifted from a William S. Burroughs ...
2016–09–03 “A Short History of The Times’s Shortest Story”
2016–08–19 Aleksandr Hemon I’ve always found the insistent distinction between fiction and nonfiction in Anglo-American writing very annoying, indeed ...
2016–08–05 Pablo Enriquez
2016–08–02 Actual persons living or dead
quote Tim Parks begins his piece on Dante by asking how the Divine Comedy would have fared these days, when if you ‘put real people in a work of fiction ...
2016–07–19 'Considerable variety'
quote My favorite story in [Alfred Döblin’s] Bright Magic is “The Other Man.” It begins when a Boston gynecologist named Dr. Converdon hires a ...
2016–07–10 The cohort studies discussed by Gavin Francis often confirm what everyone already knows: that (statistically speaking) a person born into ...
2016–06–27 IMAGE: Forced rhubarb is grown in the dark and harvested by candelight, resulting in stalks that are more slender and tender. (In the dark, the stalks ...
2016–05–29 'Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow' (Thames, 1987)
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2016–05–24 Bee Wilson on Edith Piaf
quote During and after the war, [Piaf’s] myth shifted again. Her collaboration with Asso was at an end and she started to work with new lyricists, ...
2016–04–20 Hotline bling
quote Erykah Badu has spent much of the past few months working on the music for “Legends of Chamberlain Heights,” an animated series scheduled to make ...
2016–04–19 Unknown designer, c. 1966
2016–04–19 Story of my life
quote From 216 words expressing well-being, happiness, and pleasure that were collected by Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. Lomas’s ...
2016–03–16 Max Lamb
2016–03–08 Slime season
quote P-Levis said: January 30th, 2016 at 9:07 am Jean Dubuffet on Young Thug: Our culture is based on complete trust in language (particularly written ...
2016–03–02 Daniel Soar on '@'
quote Vol. 31 No. 11 · 11 June 2009I was surprised by Daniel Soar’s inability to see why the Russians call the @ ‘a dog’ (LRB, 28 May). It’s a ...
2016–03–02 (Media)
2016–03–01 Franco Grignani, 1960
2016–03–01 Slim Jimmy and Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd freestyle for Tim Westwood, December 2015
2016–03–01 Eileen Gray's E. 1027
text In 1929, the year that E.1027 was completed, Coco Chanel also commissioned  a house in the village: La Pausa, named for  the rest that Mary ...
2016–02–23 (Media)
2016–02–15 Michael Wood on William Empson
text Empson’s idea of Shakespeare’s ‘method’ makes the film Shakespeare in Love look like a documentary, and the touch about walking home is ...
2016–02–09 Sou Fujimoto, “Architecture Is Everywhere.” Courtesy Chicago Architecture Bienniel.
2016–02–09 Peter Hujar. Fran Lebowitz [at Home in Morristown], 1974
2016–02–04 Varna Restaurant, Århus, Denmark, by Vernon Panton (1971)
2016–01–29 Prince covering “A Case of You”, mid-80s
2016–01–28 Early type specimen by Ludwig & Mayer
2016–01–13 Patricia Highsmith, ca. 1942
2015–12–30 Skylar Fein, Black Flag for Georges Bataille, 2012
2015–12–30 Twiggy in a Mr. Freedom “Mickey Mouse” shirt, 1970
2015–12–27 (Media)
2015–12–17 The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V picked out the roles to which different languages were best suited: Spanish to speak with God, French to speak with ...
2015–12–10 Stephen Curry in his sensory-deprivation chamber. “When I get in the tank, I lean back, try to take a couple of deep breaths, ground myself and ...
2015–12–04 Williamsburg, 2014
2015–12–02 I read Moravia’s “Gli Indifferenti” (“Time of Indifference”) and “La Noia” (“The Empty Canvas”). Pavese’s “La Luna e i Falò” ...
2015–11–30 Haciendaware “Ombre” pipe. Cast stoneware with satin glaze, 3.5 × 1 × 1. A ceramic pipe airbrushed with the most delicious pastel ...
2015–11–23 Grimes, “Oblivion” (2012)
2015–11–22 A ball rolls under a chair, the only furniture in a room: “things seem to have some sort of survival instinct.” Trying to quit cigarettes, Nabokov ...
2015–11–18 Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
2015–11–18 Jeff Wall, Smaller Pictures. September 9 – December 20, 2015 Foundation Cartier-Bresson
2015–11–17 Ofege, Higher Plane Breeze (1977)
2015–11–17 PF Sloan
quote He also claimed the credit for the Byrds’ distinctive sound, saying he and producer Terry Melcher came up with it after the group’s initial ...
2015–11–17 Tout le bataclan
quote When I lived in Paris in the early 1960s the Bataclan was a cinema. It had been converted into one in 1926. (Incidentally, bataclan means junk; ‘tout ...
2015–11–12 Telehor: The International Review New Vision (Mezinárodní časopis pro visuální kulturu / Internationale Zeitschrift für visuelle Kultur / Revue ...
2015–10–19 Goldberg Variation 30. a 1 Clav. 'Quodlibet'
quote Bach’s biographer Forkel explains the Quodlibet by invoking a custom observed at Bach family reunions (Bach’s relatives were almost all ...
2015–10–19 Neal Ascherson on the last fogs of London
text Names for the [London] fog evolved during the 19th century. ‘Pea-souper’ is sometimes attributed to Melville, who wrote in 1850 of encountering ...
2015–10–13 Karl Lagerfeld, the Philip Johnson of Fashion?
text ‘‘You know St. Mary’s Church in Lübeck?’’ I asked.‘‘Absolutely,’’ he replied. ‘‘My father had one of his factories less than ...
2015–10–08 Mimi and Richard Fariña, “Bold Marauder” on Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest (1966)
2015–10–06 Borges on Kane (1941)
quote Form of multiplicity and incongruity abound in the film: the first scenes record the treasures amassed by Kane; in one of the last, a poor woman, ...
2015–09–24 River Phoenix with Martha Plimpton, late-80s
2015–09–23 Lee Friedlander. Florida, 1963, gelatin-silver print, 12-3/4” x 8-1/2”
2015–09–23 Clarice Lispector, c. 1950s
2015–09–22 Bagel Workers
quote Bagel-making was still a skilled trade then, restricted to members of the International Beigel Bakers Union, as the name was Romanized after the ...
2015–09–21 Homage to Gauguin. Naomi Campbell photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Harper’s Bazaar, 1992.
2015–09–21 Paradigm
quote … Back to the Future is not only a prime illustration of a new narrative genre, it is also a commercial event and a narrative commodity ...
2015–09–17 Marcel Broodthaers. Pot of Mussels, 1968. Mussel shells, painted pan, and wax.
2015–09–17 (Media)
2015–09–16 Sarah Schneider
2015–09–14 'Sympathy for the Devil,' Lorrie Moore
text Vaughn’s rushed delivery resembles that of the character he played in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers. This same-in-every-film movie-star trait ...
2015–09–11 Mary McCarthy, “Ghostly Father, I Confess”: Ah, God, it was too sad and awful, the endless hide-and-go-seek game one played with the ...
2015–09–09 Wichita Lineman
quote It was the first time he had written a song expressly for another artist. But had he conceived any part of “Wichita” before that call?“Not ...
2015–09–03 'La Mystique Féminine vol. 1,' Frankie Teardrop
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2015–09–01 Jim Pennucci
2015–08–31 At Anthology Film Archives
quote HOME FROM HOME: CHRONICLE OF A VISION Die andere Heimat: Chronik einer Sehnsucht In German with English subtitles, 2013, 230 min, DCP, ...
2015–08–26 Fried, Rancière and the Form of the Photograph (2011)
text Furthermore, as every student of literary theory knows very well — you learn it the minute you first read “The Intentional Fallacy” — this ...
2015–08–24 A Lazarus beside me
text The last cars, mostly large fashionable ones, were moving off. Only my poor old Singer remained, parked in the cul-de-sac outside the galleries. I knew ...
2015–08–20 Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
quote John P. A. Ioannidis ABSTRACT There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research ...
2015–08–18 Stephen Shore. Ginger Shore, West Palm Beach, Florida, 14 November 1977
2015–08–11 Elaine Lustig Cohen reflects on her career
quote Architecture was always a part of my informal training as an artist. When Alvin and I lived in Los Angeles, we did not go to museums. There were no ...
2015–08–06 J. Irwin Miller, Illustrated furniture inventory, ca. 1958, FF 78, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, ...
2015–08–04 Adam Gopnik on food writing, 2005
quote That it was simple and not genuinely new does not mean that it was without value; no one had been cooking that way with passion or conviction for a ...
2015–08–04 Feghoot
quote A story pun (also known as a poetic story joke or Feghoot) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known ...
2015–07–30 Tsumori Chisato F/W 2014-15
2015–07–28 Kin Gin wallpaper sample “K-225”, for Guest Bathroom, 1978, Box 88, Folder 25, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis ...
2015–07–24 You are the rainbow
quote Manzotti is what they call a radical externalist: for him consciousness is not safely confined within a brain whose neurons select and store ...
2015–07–23 Max Factor’s Kissing Machine, c. 1939
2015–07–21 Skeeter Davis, I’ll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too (1959)
2015–07–21 Elio Fiorucci in his office in Milan, 1971
2015–07–20 Lucy Lippard’s inventory of conceits in post-Pollock, New York art. From the catalog for “New York 13,” Vancouver Art Gallery, winter 1969.
2015–07–20 Some customers pour beer into clear McCafé plastic cups and drink it right in the open. A man called Shamrock swills straight vodka from a Dasani ...
2015–07–17 Poster by Damien Tran
2015–07–16 Flowing locks
text It’s an elaborate theory and in fact the reader turns out to be the philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti. Intriguing above all is the ...
2015–07–16 Portrait of the artist as a dormant snail
quote A certain famous historical desert snail was brought from Egypt to England as a conchological specimen in the year 1846. This particular mollusk (the ...
2015–07–09 “From childhood, he was very strong,” his father, Miguel Valerio Colon, recalled. “He was capable of pulping up to 1,000 crates of coffee beans ...
2015–07–09 From Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924): It would have been difficult to guess his age, but it surely had to be somewhere between thirty and ...
2015–07–09 On the Genealogy of Morals:The debtor made a contract with the creditor and pledged that if he should fail to repay he would substitute something else ...
2015–07–05 ‘Henry does resemble me,’ Berryman told an interviewer, ‘and I resemble Henry; but on the other hand I am not Henry. You know, I pay income tax. ...
2015–07–02 Katherine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
2015–06–30 New Order, video for “Perfect Kiss” (1985). Directed by Jonathan Demme.
2015–06–30 Installation view of paintings by Elaine Lustig Cohen in Philip Johnson’s Painting Gallery. Organized by Prem Krishnamurthy, on view through ...
2015–06–30 Lizzy Mercier Descloux in Tunisia, 1984. Photo: Esteban
2015–06–25 Mimi and Richard Fariña, mid-60s
2015–06–22 ‘Supplemento al dizionario italiano’ (Milan: Muggiani editore, 1963)
2015–06–22 Felix Pfäffli, poster for Monotales concert at Südpol, November 2012. This object is currently on display in room 107 as part of How Posters Work.
2015–06–16 An elderly gentleman in his nineties lived in the same Glasgow tenement as my father. Once in the late 1980s, when we were coming down the stairs, we ...
2015–06–16 Heavenly treacle for wizard ears
text Is there anything more shaming than doting on the electrified English folk-rock of the late Sixties and early Seventies? It’s taken me, I confess, a ...
2015–06–15 Jack Rollins Celebrates 100th Birthday
quote Despite the sting of Belafonte’s abrupt departure, Rollins remained adamant about working intimately with his clients. As he explained it, “I ...
2015–06–12 (Media)
2015–06–09 Chris and Jed, “Only Fades Away” (Cause Co-Motion cover)
2015–06–08 The Outfits of the Open
image Rafael Nadal wore tone-on-tone Nike blues, which the Twitterati labeled alternatively Smurflike and Cookie Monsterish.
2015–06–08 David Strathairn in Sneakers (1992)
2015–06–08 Edited by Vivian Sky Rehberg and Marnie Slater This new volume brings together a selection of Jan Verwoert’s most recent writings. COOKIE! is a ...
2015–06–01 Smog meringues
image … we spent Thursday afternoon mixing different chemical precursors, and then “baking” [meringues] under UV light to form a London peasouper, ...
2015–06–01 Lüscher Color Test
quote These four colors—blue, yellow, red, and green—“are ‘psychological primaries’ and constitute what are called the four ‘basic colors’ of ...
2015–06–01 Velvet gentleman
quote In early 1893, Satie started a relationship with the painter and former trapeze artist Suzanne Valadon. She kept two cats to whom she fed caviar on ...
2015–05–29 Last days of the original Subway Inn, photos by Timothy Fadek
2015–05–26 Big Mac
quote The Big Mac was created by Jim Delligatti, an early Ray Kroc franchisee, who was operating several restaurants in the Pittsburgh area. It was invented ...
2015–05–21 Ply Magazine
quote There’s a lifetime of spinning in Leicester. Our Spring 2015 issue focuses on the 3 main Leicester wools: Bluefaced, Border, and Longwool. Brimming ...
2015–05–15 Innocent/Corrupt
text A narrator is a much stranger toy at the novelist’s disposal than is usually thought. It’s not just something as depressingly ordinary as a ...
2015–05–15 Swimsuit, “Chandra.” Live at PJ’s Lager House (Detroit, Michigan – June 1, 2012)
2015–04–27 From George W. Bush, Decision Points. Chapter “Freedom Agenda,” p. 433: Putin and I both loved physical fitness. Vladimir worked out ...
2015–04–21 Cover by Peter Saville, 1980
2015–04–20 Jerome Leibling. Brighton Beach, 1995.
2015–04–19 Orphan Annie ‘Ritz Cracker’ sweater, 1971.
2015–04–15 Havana 1950. Coat and dress by Tina Leser. Model Jean Patchett.
2015–04–15 John Huston and Orson Welles, during the filming of the unfinished The Other Side of the Wind. Ph: Mike Ferris.
2015–04–15 Mary Frey, Catcher, 2014. Stoneware, underglaze, carbon fiber, 5 × 5 × 4.5 in.
2015–04–13 ROBERT PHILLIPS How many days a week do you work at the library, and for how many hours a day?PHILIP LARKIN My job as University librarian is a ...
2015–04–13 (Media)
2015–04–03 Harmony Block Vista Alegre
2015–04–01 (Media)
2015–03–26 William Meyers. Riverdale, Bronx: May 4, 1998 (NYPL).
2015–03–26 Advertising Graphics from the Collection of Documents of Everyday Culture April 11 to July 5, 2015. Opening: Friday, April 10, 2015, 7:00 ...
2015–03–25 ‘Arleen,’ Luc Sante (2008)
text General Echo, whose real name was Errol Robinson, was prominent in the rise of “slackness,” the sexually explicit reggae style that began to ...
2015–03–25 Criticism as advertisement (2009)
text BD What, then, are the politics of mentioning or not mentioning an artist? BG You can escape politics as a theoretician, or as an art historian, ...
2015–03–19 Button for the Swiss band Kleenex designed by Peter Fischli (!!)
2015–03–19 Quibbles and bits
text Laura Miller on Anthony Lane:Reading this much of a critic’s work will also alert you to his tics. Lane has only one that annoys me: He will cross ...
2015–03–18 But the historian goes to the Archive to be at home as well as to be alone … Alone in the Archive, in the counting house of dreams, the historian ...
2015–03–18 Jane Greer with a Bicycle card blouse and tousled hair on the cover of Life, 1947
2015–03–18 Interview with Dian Hanson
quote Dian Hanson has made a career of “probing the subtleties of male lust.” In 1976, she began to edit such successful fetish magazines as Juggs, Oui, ...
2015–03–18 Pattern and aboutness
text When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this ...
2015–03–18 Eating advertising
quote From The Great American Cereal Book, by Marty Gitlin and Topher Ellis But Post beat Kellogg to the wider market with his ready-to-eat Grape Nuts, ...
2015–03–16 Harry Gruyaert. BELGIUM. Town of Waterloo. 1981.
2015–03–12 Picnic #1: Jonathan Campolo
image While this is the first picnic I am already breaking the rules and not visiting the artist in his studio but rather among his recent work in his ...
2015–03–11 Back in the 1920s, Brecht had started an adaptation of The Pit, Frank Norris’s epic novel about the extravagances of the Chicago wheat exchange, ...
2015–03–11 Installation of drawings by David Shrigley at The Gallery Restaurant at Sketch, London. Interior design by India Mahdavi.
2015–03–11 Adam Phillips: 'Against Self-Criticism'
text … Freud says that the super-ego is something we make; it in turn makes something of us, turns us into a certain kind of person (just as, say, ...
2015–03–10 Curse nature
text Although Sade was never to know it, his manuscript had survived that night, and every night since: having been smuggled out of the Bastille it was ...
2015–03–09 Alan Vega, “Wipeout Beat.” La Edad de Oro, Madrid 1983.
2015–03–04 Jasper Johns. Watchman, 1964. Oil on canvas with objects. 85 × 60.25 in. The watchman falls “into” the “trap” of ...
2015–03–01 The new VDT machines have hurt the paper, no doubt about it. The people in the newsroom don’t like the machines. (A few say they like the ...
2015–02–26 Peter O'Toole on Hamlet
video With Orson Welles, host Huw Wheldon and actor Ernest Milton on Monitor (October 1963, BBC)
2015–02–25 ABV 40%. The Schlenkerla Brewery and Tavern in Bamberg, Germany is well known for their Schlenkerla Smokebeer. Distilled from this classic beverage, ...
2015–02–24 Forward, you understand, and in the dark
text Sometimes this slippery, furtive posture makes you wonder what Frost is hiding, and sometimes it makes you wonder what you’re hiding if you don’t ...
2015–02–19 I realize I don’t want any record of my days. I have the kind of brain that erases everything that passes, almost immediately, like that ...
2015–02–18 From Michael Chrichton, Jasper Johns (1977): As a young child living in his grandfather’s house, he remembers being dressed in the kitchen, by ...
2015–02–18 Dave Hickey, 'The Price of Everything' (Oct 2011)
text Surprisingly our crowd didn’t talk much about the movies except as “the industry,” where short-term jobs were available for artists, ...
2015–02–17 Title sequence for 'My Own Private Idaho' (1991)
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2015–02–10 Tesla and his cat (1939)
quote In respect to water, Macak was very fastidious. He would jump six feet to avoid wetting his paws. On such days we went into the house and selected a ...
2015–02–05 Ken Schles, Melanie at Veselka, 1986
2015–02–03 The president’s budget plan as it arrived on Capitol Hill on Monday. J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
2015–02–03 'Faux-cul' point
quote February 1, 2015 11:10 am, FM said: I knew that “faux-cul” literally means “false ass”, but why is it an insult? Apparently ...
2015–02–02 Time Magazine dress, designed by Walter Lefmann and Ron de Vito, 1967. ROM 967.77
2015–02–02 Lahore, Pakisan. Ph: Arif Ali.
2015–01–29 Album cover by Tauba Auerbach, 2014
2015–01–28 The glow pear
image Radu Zaciu. “Die Glühbirne,” 2015. German slang for light bulb is “die Glühbirne,” or “the glow pear.”
2015–01–21 Remedial education
quote This essay considers the process of remediation in two North American reproductions of the song-and-dance sequence “Jaan Pehechaan Ho” from ...
2015–01–14 Your browser does not support the audio element. The demo for “Blank Space”
2015–01–08 Naomi Watts in Flirting, 1991.
2015–01–06 Poster for The Long Goodbye by Jack Davis, 1973
2015–01–06 Henri Cartier-Bresson. Andre PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES, 1933.
2015–01–06 from T. J. Clark: For a Left With No Future (2012)Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will? Not any more: because optimism is now a political ...
2014–12–30 Ziggy’s Gift (1982). Title song by Harry Nilsson.
2014–12–22 A Visit from Saint Nicholas In The Ernest Hemingway Manner
text “We can’t sleep,” said the children. They stopped talking, but I could hear them moving. They made sounds. “Can you sleep?” asked the ...
2014–12–15 Gorod Zero (1989, d. Karen Shakhnazarov)
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2014–12–15 Bob Seger was thirty-one years old when he recorded “Night Moves,” which is about as old as I was when I heard it — I mean really heard ...
2014–12–11 On the bag before the tag
quote “In Rome. At the Gagosian gallery.” Obrist, name-dropping, said that he’d once visited Cy Twombly at his studio in Rome. Ruscha didn’t seem to ...
2014–12–09 CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN: You’ve said that the present time is always the best time. Is that because of the chaos of the present? PETER ...
2014–12–09 Lina Bo Bardi, c. 1960
2014–12–05 What's with all the fucking bunnies?
text For the uninitiated, Hustler is not the gauzy dreamworld of Playboy but a magazine given to photo spreads of amputees and hermaphrodites, a magazine ...
2014–11–19 (Media)
2014–11–18 Card from Le Jour Se Lève (1939)
2014–11–15 Story arc
text Guccio Gucci As a teenager in the early 1900s, Guccio Gucci was a lift boy at the Savoy Hotel in London. Inspired by the elegant upperclass guests, ...
2014–11–14 Michael Clune’s memoir [White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin] opens a few years into his habit. He is visiting some addict friends, Dominic and ...
2014–11–08 A collaboration in every sense of the word from husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld, the hit web series High Maintenance follows a ...
2014–11–05 Poster for La traversée de Paris (1956)
2014–11–05 Aliza Nisenbaum. Origami, 2013. 11 × 14 inches, oil on panel.
2014–11–04 A. A. Milne: the celeries of Autumn
text There is a crispness about celery that is of the essence of October. It is as fresh and clean as a rainy day after a spell of heat. It crackles ...
2014–11–04 From Terry Eagleton on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
text Bored by his country residence and deaf to his wife’s pleas for his company, [Rochester] spent his time in London brawling, drinking and whoring ...
2014–11–04 For “Goodbye to Language 3D,” opening on Wednesday, [Godard] encouraged his cinematographer, Fabrice Aragno, to build customized camera rigs (much ...
2014–10–30 Fan video for Ariel Pink, “Beverly Kills” (2010)
2014–10–30 (Media)
2014–10–30 Rosemarie Castoro, Multi Raw Bar (1965)
2014–10–29 George Plimpton, from a letter to Terry Southern, 1957 I’m delighted to hear from Bob that you have undertaken an interview with Henry Green. I ...
2014–10–09 (Media)
2014–10–08 Ellsworth Kelly's Dream of Impersonality
text Kelly’s use of cropping has nothing to do with this paean to the subjective and transitory nature of experience—especially since, as one must ...
2014–10–07 Recipe: At-Home Cronut
Two Days Before Make ganache: Prepare one of the ganache recipes below and refrigerate until needed. Make pastry dough: Combine the bread flour, ...
2014–10–06 Studio assistant Annelies Nelck with tracing of Apollo on the floor of the Hôtel Régina, Nice, c. 1953
2014–10–01 Portrait of the artist in (short) pants
text T. S. Eliot’s first magazine was published in an extremely limited edition, with an erratic mixture of upper- and lower-case penciling. Advertised as ...
2014–09–29 Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became ...
2014–09–26 Madman's papers
quote How Boris Pasternak survived the necropolitics of the Stalin era was a mystery ... Nadezhda Mandelstam (whose husband, Osip, became ‘camp dust’ in ...
2014–09–25 QSL card
2014–09–16 Georgette Berger & René Magritte, 1920s
2014–09–12 (Media)
2014–09–11 In Kathmandu, Brian Houghton Hodgson was stranded for years with little to do for his employer, the East India Company, and passed the time collecting ...
2014–09–10 From Richard Nonas’ notebooks, undated ‘Things mean’ is what structural thinking is always about—expeditions into the interior: the invasion ...
2014–09–10 Michael Wolf. Paris Abstract, 2014.
2014–09–04 Excerpts from an interview with Roberto Bolaño, 2001
quote I suppose one writes out of sensitivity, that’s all. The truth is, I don’t believe all that much in writing. Starting with my own. Being a writer ...
2014–08–28 Naomi Sims in 1972. Ph: Barry Berenson
2014–08–26 Fu qi fei pian—commonly rendered on English language menus as ox tongue and tripe—has a romantic backstory. The dish is a mountain of cold, ...
2014–08–20 Interview with Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert
text J.K.: Right. But by September ’84, were you and Lieberman still together?M.N.: No. I was with Judy Nelson that year. So things had calmed down on ...
2014–08–20 George Salter’s cover, 1966. Peter Mendelsund’s cover, 2013.
2014–08–07 Interview with David Kilgour and Robert Scott
quote Robert Scott, David Kilgour, and Hamish Kilgour of The Clean. Photo by Craig McNabb taken sometime in the early '90s.Clinton Krute Robert, any music or ...
2014–08–06 Chengdu-style bing sandwich with potatoes, pork and scallions
2014–08–05 Kazimir Malevich. Bather, 1911. Gouache on paper, 105 × 69 cm. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2014–08–04 I love Elizabeth Hardwick’s sentences. They’re strange and wayward. They veer. They avoid the point. Sometimes they are specific, but often they ...
2014–08–04 PDF
quote MUSIC FROM THE WRONG PLACE: ON THE ITALIANICITY OF QUEBEC DISCO Will Straw Criticism, Winter 2008, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 113–132. ©2008 Wayne State ...
2014–08–04 A Conversation with Gore Vidal
text He mimicked Truman Capote describing Jackie Kennedy screwing a big Negro chauffeur while her children whimpered in the back seat – ‘Not a word of ...
2014–07–31 Kevin Roche, presentation photographs of proposed Miller Library model, ca. 1970, Box 40, Folder 23, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, ...
2014–07–29 Anouk Aimée in 1947, during the shooting of what would remain the unfinished film of Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, La Fleur de l’âge. It ...
2014–07–28 … at China’s National Engineering Research Centre for Agricultural Product Logistics in Jinan, sandwiched between the ...
2014–07–22 Original Spanish edition of Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit
2014–07–21 Sandrine Bonnaire in 1986
2014–07–20 In his live commentary of the Spain versus Tunisia match, Montes used the phrase to describe Spain’s precise, elegant passing style: ...
2014–07–18 Overground Tunnels, 2006
text Contemporary military theorists are now busy re-conceptualizing the urban domain. At stake are the underlying concepts, assumptions and principles that ...
2014–07–12 Diego Maradona marked by six in the 1982 World Cup.
2014–07–09 At Tate Britain
image Civilisation, broadcast in 1969, had been filmed over the previous three years. Clark and his crew had found themselves in Paris in May 1968 in the ...
2014–07–09 Rachel Comey in Rachel Comey outside the Rachel Comey store on Comey Crosby Street. Photograph by Victoria Will.
2014–07–09 List of nicknames used by George W. Bush
quote Foreign leadersDino (short for Dinosaur) – Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada[5]Pootie-Poot, Ostrich Legs – Vladimir Putin, ...
2014–07–02 I remember visiting the great Mexican poet Octavio Paz in Mexico City on the day his country was playing Italy in the 1994 World Cup. At first, we ...
2014–06–24 Anni Albers rugs by Christopher Farr. Produced in editions of 10 in association with The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.
2014–06–19 Between four and seven I spoke semi-English. I only half understood people around me, and could only one-third communicate. I spent a lot of time in my ...
2014–06–17 The preposterous story of Max Factor, inventor of modern makeup
quote Given early lipsticks’ tendency to seep into the corners of the mouth, Max Factor drew “rosebud” lips, a style of application that accentuates ...
2014–06–17 … [his] work limns the aesthetic sphere of contemporary art’s social dynamics, symbolic value creation, and the lifestyle and fashion trends ...
2014–06–13 Misshapes
quote FABIFORM — BEAN SHAPED Here’s a good sentence from a 1909 book on rocks: “iron often inclines to the pisiform and fabiform.” (Pisiform ...
2014–06–11 Reader's Digest: San Antonio Spurs
quote Kawhi Leonard Leonard attended Martin Luther King High School in his hometown Riverside, California, where he, along with Tony Snell (currently with ...
2014–06–06 As a small boy, Messi was a fussy eater. His favorite dish has always been the milanesa a la napolitana — a breaded beef cutlet with tomato sauce and ...
2014–06–03 Joost Swarte
2014–06–02 Habitable zone: The spot under the stairs where Mr Latimer has kept the bottle garden for the past 27 years
2014–05–28 Fittingly, Scott Boras pioneered the use of Moneyball-style analytics to cast his players in the best possible negotiating light, now a common practice ...
2014–05–25 Eudora Welty to The New Yorker
quote March 15, 1933Gentlemen,I suppose you’d be more interested in even a sleight-o’-hand trick than you’d be in an application for a position with ...
2014–05–25 Dutchie
quote No, not Jamaican; the colors of the awning are all wrong. This tiny storefront serves takeout food from Suriname, a South American country whose ...
2014–05–22 That 'Saffy' style
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2014–05–20 … If we can put our outrage to one side for a second, this poses a couple of questions, for those interested in the sociology of legitimation. ...
2014–05–19 The 10-year old, upon seeing part of the trailer for Godzilla. “What if it has … Godzuki in it!” (Looks at me with dum-dum-DUM! expression, ...
2014–05–19 In April 2013, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., center, and Jill Abramson, right, celebrated the four Pulitzers won by The Times that year.
2014–05–14 Andy Murray and Michael Llodra, Australian Open 2012
2014–05–12 Flipping the pit
quote One of our favorite indicators of seasonal change here at the Indianapolis Museum of Art is the biannual “flipping of the pit” at the Miller House, ...
2014–05–12 Vintage 9ct gold IBM Selectric Model TYPEWRITER circa mid 1960’s charm
2014–05–06 Milton Glaser designed this sculpture of a fish swimming through a bagel [at Russ & Daughte’s Cafe], which references his and Jerome ...
2014–05–06 Elle Fanning on the cover of Interview May 2014, ph. Craig McDean
2014–04–30 New Logo and Identity for the Jewish Museum by Sagmeister & Walsh
2014–04–30 Title card for Pennies from Heaven (1978)
2014–04–29 Henri Matisse 1951 Exhibition Invitation for the Museum of Modern Art, 18.25” x 4” unframed.
2014–04–27 I was fifteen then; I’m fifty-five now and still likely to announce my commute with “Well, mother, I’m off to the zoo.”I bought ...
2014–04–22 P. K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens skates around all of Tampa Bay before feeding a pass to Brendan Gallagher for a goal in the first-round playoff ...
2014–04–13 [In Spartacus,] Crassus indicates his bisexuality to Antoninus by explaining that he has an appetite for snails as well as oysters, and the censors ...
2014–04–12 NORAD Santa Tracker
quote The program began on December 24, 1955, when a Sears department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper which told children that ...
2014–04–09 (Media)
2014–04–09 Search for 'martial art'
quote plagiarism (n.) 1620s, from ism + plagiary (n.) “plagiarist, literary thief” (1590s), from Latin plagiarius “kidnapper, seducer, ...
2014–04–09 Mr. Macintosh
quote Early in the development of Macintosh, Steve Jobs wanted to add “a mysterious character” to the first OS, according to an early developer ...
2014–04–03 To the Editors:In his fascinating essay Edward Mendelson gives examples of W.H. Auden’s “gifts of time, money, and sympathy” [“The Secret ...
2014–04–01 From Henry Green, 'Nothing' (1950)
quote She watched a couple up at the bar with a miniature poodle on a stool in between. Its politeness and general agitation seemed to be half human. But ...
2014–03–31 John Rawls: Six Distinctions of Baseball
quote Second: the game does not give unusual preference or advantage to special physical types, e.g., to tall men as in basketball. All sorts of abilities ...
2014–03–30 From Alfred Kazin, 'A Walker in the City' (1951)
quote By sundown the streets were empty, the curtains had been drawn, the world put to rights. Even the kitchen walls had been scrubbed and now gleamed in ...
2014–03–28 Serkan Özkaya and George L. Legendre. One and Three Pasta, 2012/14
2014–03–28 Nick Pinkerton on 'Wild Things'
text In Pierre Bayard’s 1998 Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery, a closer-than-close reading of Agatha Christie’s ...
2014–03–25 Theaters get my popcorn money, but a go-bag from Sockerbit beats movie-house candy concessions anytime. Case in point: rabarberpinnar ($3.25 per ...
2014–03–20 Not content with being voted the greatest northern male ever, the second greatest living British icon (he lost out to David Attenborough) and granted ...
2014–03–19 Potato gorditas at Country Boys (568 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn)
2014–03–14 Attempted translation of “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…”, by Jaspreet Singh Boparai, a postgraduate at Cambridge: Rrow itself, ...
2014–03–13 (Media)
2014–03–13 House-made Cheez-It trials. So far, dead-on.
2014–03–12 Ken Price at Work (ca. 1974)
2014–03–11 Merle Haggard “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive” on The Buck Owens Ranch Show (1966)
2014–03–10 Richard Avedon, “Warhol’s Shoes” (1969) Elizabeth Peyton, “Andy’s Shoes (After Avedon)” (2002)
2014–03–04 EDITIONS & PRICESFormat: 14-1/2 by 13 inches, 148 pages. The paper is French mouldmade Rives heavyweight. The original German and the English ...
2014–03–04 Dusen Dusen FW2014
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2014–02–28 Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse, 1966
2014–02–27 Jason Simon. Untitled (Castelli-Sonnabend Videotapes and Films), 2013
2014–02–25 ‘What did you think of Anna Karenina?’ Julian Assange had said. ‘I just thought it took too much of my life away. But then there’s this scene ...
2014–02–24 My junior high social-studies was run by Mr. Planer, a jaded teacher with an Olympian attitude who regarded his students as hopeless brutes. He ...
2014–02–22 (In the same keepsake album [from when she was 14], Willa Cather signed her name ‘Wm. Cather, MD’, declared her favourite trait in women to be ...
2014–02–19 When we try to take multiple steps towards refinement and evolution in a dish, things often get muddled. Figuring out what that one step is, that will ...
2014–02–17 Bill Gates giving his deposition in 1998 for the United States v. Microsoft trial.
2014–02–15 At this point [January 1986], Primal Scream are basically Bobby Gillespie in his immediately post-Jesus and Mary Chain days, playing shimmery 1960s ...
2014–02–12 Lucian Freud. Rabbit on a Chair. Pencil and crayon on paper, 18 7/8 × 12¼in. (1944)
2014–02–11 Wary Meyers Soaps
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2014–02–10 True Story of My Life, by Robert Frost (1916) Stealing pigs from the stockyards in San Francisco. Learn to whistle at five. Abandon senatorial ...
2014–02–10 Stills from 'Sweetie' (1989, Jane Campion)
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2014–02–07 On December 2, 1948, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators were at the farmhouse of Whittaker Chambers with a subpoena. Chambers led ...
2014–02–06 Rosenbaum's 31 best movies of 1994
text 2. The Second Heimat. All 13 features in Edgar Reitz’s 1992 German epic about youth, love, and art in the 60s played twice at the Film Center last ...
2014–02–05 Interview in Tin House, Summer 2001 with Barney Rosset, publisher of the Grove Press and Evergreen Review: MCCORMACK: Did you bring any of the Beats ...
2014–02–05 49th Birthday, August 2010
quote President Barack Obama pulled together an informal dream team for a basketball game Sunday. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and other NBA ...
2014–02–04 Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Edi Rama and Anri Sala
quote Painted apartment building from the Tirana color facade project, 2001–11, Tirana, Albania, 2007. Photo: David Dufresne/Flickr. OBRIST: We first ...
2014–02–03 From The Bed and Bath Book, Terence Conran (1978)
2014–01–29 Anna Pavlova in the Fokine/Saint-Saëns The Dying Swan, Saint Petersburg, 1905
2014–01–29 Grapefruit Lavender Pavlova ($6) at Dominique Ansel Bakery, Spring Street
2014–01–29 Textile sample (11.5 × 11.5 in.) of Herman Miller “Cutout” (#638) designed by Alexander Girard
2014–01–28 Peter Seeger was born on May 3, 1919, to Charles Seeger, a musicologist, and Constance de Clyver Edson Seeger, a concert violinist. His parents later ...
2014–01–24 Gene Clark during recording sessions for the “No Other” album in Los Angeles in early 1974. John Dietrich; Whin Oppice
2014–01–23 Usage of ITC Officina Sans, 1996
2014–01–22 The music video for “Robert De Niro’s Waiting…” was directed by Duncan Gibbins and shows Bananarama walking around dark ...
2014–01–21 Unfortunately, statistics—and the scientific process more generally—often seems to be used more as a way of laundering uncertainty, processing data ...
2014–01–15 Pretzel Rolls at M. Wells Steakhouse
2014–01–15 (Media)
2014–01–14 The Museum of Modern Art in 1939, photograph by Andreas Feininger
2014–01–14 Top 10 TV Performances of All-Time
quote According to me. I haven’t watched The Sopranos, so like, grain of salt. Hat tip to your friendly neighborhood TV critic for bringing up the ...
2014–01–13 (Media)
2014–01–13 Amiri Baraka at the National Black Political Convention in 1972
2014–01–09 Jean & Helen Gazagnaire. 58 Tompkins Pl., Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. March 1, 1978. From the The Nooney Brooklyn Photographs.
2014–01–09 What color the wind
quote … In 1960, Penelope and her husband Desmond moved back to London, into Grace, ‘an old wooden barge which for many years had carried cargoes up ...
2014–01–08 (Media)
2014–01–08 Russell Jacoby on the New York Review of Books
quote … Robert Silvers is regularly celebrated as a ruthless line editor who excises fat and clichés. Several contributors report being chased down at ...
2014–01–08 Alexander Scriabin was a Theosophist whose beliefs influenced his music, especially by providing a justification or rationale for his chromatic ...
2014–01–07 Il Sorpasso Wednesday, January 8 – Thursday, January 16 (1962) Vittorio Gassman’s just looking for a phone in a holiday-deadened Rome to say ...
2014–01–02 Imitation of Life (1959) is Douglas Sirk’s last film. A great, crazy movie about life and about death. And about America. The first great moment: ...
2013–12–27 The process movie
quote 1961. Rosi decisively re-invents the Process movie. Salvatore Giuliano is a film where a protagonist, even a story is mere pretext for exploring ...
2013–12–24 (Media)
2013–12–11 Samuel Beckett, from a letter (in German) to Axel Kaun, 1937: It is indeed becoming more and more difficult, even senseless, for me to write an ...
2013–12–10 In the dialectical image, what has been within a particular epoch is always, simultaneously, “what has been from time immemorial.” As such, ...
2013–12–01 An appeal to an artwork’s realism, its roots in reality, is an appeal not to its accuracy at registering facts but to the depth of its claim upon ...
2013–11–24 A turtle's pace
text Walter Benjamin notes that in Baudelaire’s Paris a fleet of more than five hundred sedan chairs was still in use for elegant transport; that it was ...
2013–11–20 Infinite jest, most excellent fancy
quote We experience it as (quasi-)foodstuff, as marketing campaign, as cult object, as Internet meme, but those experiences don’t sufficiently explain it. ...
2013–11–20 INTERVIEWER When you begin to write something, do you begin with a certain character in mind, or rather with a certain situation in ...
2013–11–20 Pablo Picasso, Angry Owl. Bronze, 1951–53.
2013–11–20 Jan van Tongeren, Still life in blue and black. Oil on canvas, 63 × 80.5 cm (1958).
2013–11–18 Garlic Knots ($1 for 3; $3 for 12) at the new Rizzo’s branch, 17 Clinton Street
2013–11–15 From Ken Price: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper 1962–2010, a show by Drawing Center on view at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New ...
2013–11–11 VONNEGUT I took my basic training on the 240-millimeter howitzer.INTERVIEWER A rather large weapon.VONNEGUT The largest mobile ...
2013–11–06 When Mr. Bloomberg, dressed in a crimson tie and a crisp winter coat, showed up, the poll worker had a question. What was his first name, again? As he ...
2013–10–30 Cherrie Ying’s entrance in Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004)
2013–10–28 A lot of people assume that Muhammad Ali was my favorite boxer. But I have to say it was Roberto Duran. I always looked at Ali as being handsome and ...
2013–10–28 Excerpt from Lou Reed, “The View from the Bandstand” Aspen No. 3 (1966, Roaring Fork Press): In the fifties there was the four chord ...
2013–10–27 Doodle of a dude
quote “. . . a new and valuable addition has been made to the slang vocabulary. … We refer to the term “Dood.” For a correct definition of the ...
2013–10–27 Ed Ruscha's white jeans
text In 1951, when I was fourteen, I landed a job in an Oklahoma City laundromat. The pay was respectable—fifty cents and hour, up from forty-five. In ...
2013–10–26 Numbers
quote … Most of the characters in Daily Rituals are either ‘numbers’ – numb-ers, that is – or ‘revvers’. Patricia Highsmith was an extreme ...
2013–10–25 Still from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
2013–10–25 The documents we’ve seen – a fraction of the total number in the hands of Guardian and Washington Post journalists – are a blur of codenames. ...
2013–10–21 Green Bay Packers’ alternate kit, based on 1920s-era uniform
2013–10–21 Matter of laughs
text Robert Smithson, “Entropy and the New Monuments.” First published in the June 1966 issue of Artforum:The Park Place Group (Mark di Suvero, ...
2013–10–17 Naomi Watts and Lori Petty in a promo shot for Tank Girl (1995)
2013–10–16 Goose egg and a slim reed
quote Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky stressed that under the deal, the budget cuts extracted in the 2011 fiscal showdown remained in place over the ...
2013–10–16 The Pacific Parlour Car
image Sleeper car passengers on the Los Angeles – Seattle Coast Starlight also have access to the Pacific Parlour Car (PPC). The PPCs were converted from ...
2013–10–15 (Media)
2013–10–14 Senator Provolone
quote Bill [de Blasio] physically resembled his father — he grew to be the same height, and both had broad foreheads — but he identified increasingly ...
2013–10–14 Fabula rasa
text Here is another. In 1946, as he was conceiving 1984, George Orwell reviewed the writings of an American political philosopher and futurologist named ...
2013–10–10 Sweet and Sour Episode 10 segment w/ “Glam to Wham” by Sharon O’Neill (1984)
2013–10–10 Spaghettieis
image Spaghettieis (German pronunciation: [ʃpaˈɡɛtiˌaɪs]) is a German ice cream made to look like a plate of spaghetti. It was created by Dario ...
2013–10–09 The specific cultural attributes of such men are shifting and elusive, but one defining feature is a tendency to use the word bro. A lot. (The ...
2013–10–07 The Guardian's top 50 television dramas
quote The West WingTwin PeaksQueer as FolkThe WireSix Feet UnderHow Do You Want Me?Smiley’s PeopleHouse of CardsPrime SuspectBodiesTinker, Tailor, ...
2013–10–07 Habits of the highly habitual
quote Marcel Proust, for one, rose sometime between 3pm and 6pm, immediately smoked opium powders to relieve his asthma, then rang for his coffee and ...
2013–10–07 View of the main exhibition “Behind the Green Door”, curated by Rotor. Oslo Architecture Triennale.
2013–10–03 'Forensics & OpSec analysis'
quote That’s quite a coincidence, given that – until July of 2013 – not many folks assumed it was a trivial operation to bust through Tor ...
2013–10–03 Plus I got snow, man
quote From Criminal Complaint No. 13 Civ. 6919, United States of America vs. Dread Pirate Roberts: IV. I have examined the SSH public encryption key ...
2013–10–03 Peter B. Lewis Theater, under the Guggenheim Museum
2013–10–01 Kiss on my list
quote Danny Brown’s Top 25 Records No. 20, Hot Boys, Guerrilla Warfare I look at that album almost in the sense of Hall and Oates. The producers just ...
2013–09–28 New York PSA, 2013. Photo by Dave Cook.
2013–09–27 (Media)
2013–09–26 Waves across the sea
quote 8 APRIL 2004 An eccentric French radio station has become a cult hit in Paris, Strasbourg, Bordeaux – and Brighton. Paris-based FIP FM ...
2013–09–25 Stills from 'Ministry of Fear'
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2013–09–25 M.A.D. city
text In the early years of the Cold War, many of these accidents involved airplanes. In 1958, for example, a B-47 bomber carrying a Mark 36 hydrogen bomb, ...
2013–09–25 Talia Chetrit in Vogue Italia, May 2011. Photo by Francesco Carrozzini.
2013–09–24 Gobbles
While heading a government office in the mid-1940s, the former Texas congressman grew weary of the inflated verbiage he confronted daily among the many ...
2013–09–24 Geocities: The Torrent
quote This collection was put together by nearly 100 folks assembling at the news of the death of Geocities, a website that allowed free hosting of web ...
2013–09–21 'Knobs'
quote I like knobs. Steve Jobs liked knobs. John Varvatos, the fashion designer with his own Chrysler 300 edition, likes knobs. In fact, Varvatos has created ...
2013–09–21 Distinctive species of mammals
text (1) The claim that there is “a distinctive approach to political economy, sometimes known as game theory or public choice theory” is itself rather ...
2013–09–20 Photograph of Rosalind Krauss by Judy Olausen, c. 1978.
2013–09–17 6 Decades Books will be at the NY Art Book Fair from September 19th to the 22nd. The fair opens Thursday evening with the preview from 6-9 pm. ...
2013–09–13 America Is Hard To See (1970), d. Emile de Antonio
2013–09–13 Hitch thanks you for smoking (1992)
text How did one get from that to this? From smoking after dinner to smoking between courses – the inter-course cigarette – to smoking between bites? ...
2013–09–13 Kingsley Amis, photo from Philip Larkin’s Selected Letters
2013–09–13 Identity and 'The Searchers'
quote The date of her death is uncertain, but by any account she did not live long and prosper among her white relatives. Most versions of her story agree ...
2013–09–12 Albert Murray buys a chair
quote We often went further downtown. Once we stopped at a posh office-chair outlet on West Fifteenth Street that someone had recommended. A salesman glided ...
2013–09–12 Cairo
image Cairo is a remastered true type version of the Mac OS6 classic font originally designed by Susan Kare. It includes all your favourites, like cow dog, ...
2013–09–11 Spinning around
quote Puebla gets credit for the invention of mole sauce — that would be mole poblano. The city hosted a mole festival in May 2012 that drew star chefs ...
2013–09–11 Polish poster for Tootsie, 1984
2013–09–09 El Tercer Reich, mapa – Manuscrit de Roberto Bolaño, 1986. Arxiu 17 – 83
2013–09–09 Float like a ...
quote There are 216 stitches on a baseball, arranged in a figure eight, the equivalent of mountain ranges on the otherwise smooth surface. Air flowing past a ...
2013–09–09 Jessica Harper in Suspiria, 1977
2013–09–09 On bullshit, etc.
quote When Anthony Weiner entered the New York mayoral race in May, everybody knew he was, by a new measure of techno-uxoriousness, no good. […] There ...
2013–09–03 Nervous Nellie
quote When I read such advocates of the surveillance state as Albion Urdank condemning an opponent, David Bromwich, as being a ‘hand-wringing liberal’ on ...
2013–08–31 Vol. 2 No. 1 · 24 January 1980
2013–08–27 Superb early JUNGHANS 15 jewel manual-wind gents wristwatch. Full arabic numeral dial, featuring subs seconds dial. This watch has just been serviced ...
2013–08–26 Theatrical poster, 1970
2013–08–25 Margaret Battye, 1930s Australian court dress
2013–08–23 With musician parents, Questlove grew up in Philadelphia surrounded by a collection of, he estimates, five thousand vinyl LPs. Drums began at age two, ...
2013–08–22 (Media)
2013–08–22 Mel Bochner, Measurement: Plant, 1969. Live plant with tape and letraset on wall; size determined by installation.
2013–08–20 Two part invention
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2013–08–16 Cover of Artforum, April 1996
2013–08–16 Title cards for 'Yes Minister' (Gerald Scarfe, 1980)
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2013–08–14 Frame from a contact sheet from a Robert Rauschenberg opening in New York, 1980
2013–08–14 Lois Bewley strikes a “Jerome Robbins” pose, Show 1962.
2013–08–08 I'll be fucked if you can't
quote … ‘For many complicated reasons,’ Anthony Hecht said, ‘my childhood was a rather bitter and lonely one.’ The problem is that this was ...
2013–08–06 States of estate
text A few years ago—to pursue the analogy before dropping it—some of the contents of the visionary English painter Stanley Spencer’s studio came up ...
2013–08–06 Édouard Manet. Fish (Still Life), 1864. Oil on canvas, 32.1 × 73.4 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago
2013–08–05 Robert Rauschenberg. Contact sheet showing Cy Twombly in Rome, 1952.
2013–08–01 … In order to suggest the global effects of [the DSM-5], I’ll examine one particular disorder. In Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in ...
2013–07–27 From 'The Wrong Place,' by Brecht Evens
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2013–07–26 Will Self at Battersea Power Station
text Or, as Tincknell put it: ‘Battersea has iconic authenticity, industrial heritage oozes from every brick.’ He went on to explain that the power ...
2013–07–24 Illustration by Alessandra Genualdo
2013–07–23 Tracey Thorn, ‘Bedsit Disco Queen’
text The Marine Girls signed to the independent label Cherry Red. I was also in a band signed to Cherry Red and remember the strangeness of arriving in a ...
2013–07–22 Wu Ming
image Wu Ming (extended name: Wu Ming Foundation) is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community ...
2013–07–22 Mr. Holman went from writing about the different elements of this early scene, in the East Village Eye and Artforum, to playing a pivotal role in its ...
2013–07–22 For the home bartender, Aperol is fairly easy to use, perfect for mixing with a splash of gin and vodka or something sparkling, just for color and ...
2013–07–12 The gastronomical elephant
text As the color drained from the fields and a white mist gathered, the air filled with low rumbles and the treetops began to sway and thrash. “It’s ...
2013–07–12 Michael Malloy
quote On February 22, after he passed out for the night, they took him to Murphy’s room, put a hose in his mouth that was connected to the gas jet, and ...
2013–07–11 Stevie Smith, 'Thoughts about the Person from Porlock' (1962)
text * May we inquire the name of the Person from Porlock? Why, Porson, didn’t you know? He lived at the bottom of Porlock Hill So had a long way to ...
2013–07–11 Edward Gorey’s cover for ‘Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard’ translated by Lee M. Hollander (Doubleday, 1960)
2013–07–11 Michael White's 'Patty Melt'
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2013–07–11 The original of Murphy
text Written between August 1935 and June 1936, Murphy was eventually accepted by Routledge after an extended bout of rejections and published in March ...
2013–07–10 Wine, women and song
quote “Wine, women, and song“ is a hendiatris that endorses hedonistic lifestyles or behaviors. In modern times, it is usually seen in the form ...
2013–07–08 Nostalgia does have its painful side — it’s a bittersweet emotion — but the net effect is to make life seem more meaningful and death less ...
2013–07–03 Yearlings at Dakota Ridge Farm in Ballston Spa, N.Y., pose for the camera. From left, their names are Shooting Starr, Zorreo, Zandor and Malaki.
2013–07–01 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Otto Preminger (1995)
text The first significant stretch of Preminger’s career was 1944 to 1952 — from Laura to Angel Face, with four other wonderful noirs in between (Fallen ...
2013–07–01 Sigmar Polke (German, 1941-2010), Rasterbild mit Palmen, 1966. Oil on canvas, 130 × 110 cm.
2013–06–27 (Media)
2013–06–27 Lunch with Orson Welles
text O.W.: Only that he died last night. How did he die? H.J.: There was a special kind of pipe that he used to inhale something. ...
2013–06–26 A new system of wayfinding signs helps pedestrians navigate New York City streets.
2013–06–26 An unbuilt master plan (c. 1970) for Rice University by Louis Kahn, who the de Menils helped recruit for the project.
2013–06–20 Design for a Dutch stamp, 1993
2013–06–19 Edward Tufte on Swiss maps
image Swiss mountain maps provide a standard of excellence for serious information displays.
2013–06–18 Backgammon in the round
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2013–06–18 The persistence of memory
quote … But the story, what the book is ‘about’, matters less than what the book is: an extraordinary replication not of the experience of a ...
2013–06–18 Soho, 1976. Photo: Robin Forbes.
2013–06–09 Flyers from the MoMA library
image Roy Lichtenstein. Los Angeles: Ferus Gallery, 1963
2013–06–07 Edna St. Vincent Millay, c. 1920s
2013–06–07 Fernie Swastikas
image The Fernie Swastikas were a women’s hockey team that was formed in 1922 in Fernie, British Columbia. Their uniform used as a symbol the swastika, ...
2013–06–06 Peter Fritz's typologies
image Oliver Croy discovered 387 model buildings created by Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz in a junk shop in 1993. They’re now showing at the ...
2013–06–06 The 'millennial' curse
quote The belief a ‘generational cohort’ e.g., ‘millennials’ are somehow qualitatively different from previous generations at a ...
2013–06–06 Sylvia Plath's baggage
text Plath at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 1952/1953. Among the many recent biographies, Pain, Parties, Work, by Elizabeth Winder, tries a ...
2013–06–05 Things to do with books
quote Ford Madox Ford, who, on being asked by an American editor to write a few hundred words on the uses of books, replied, in this letter from September ...
2013–06–04 When forms become fashion?
quote To present, today, an exhibition from 1969 just as it was, maintaining its original visual and formal relations and links between the works, has posed ...
2013–06–02 (Media)
2013–06–02 Little water bear
quote Pyrococcus furiosus (‘rushing fireball’), discovered in the Aeolian Islands in 1986, is a micro-organism that thrives at high temperatures (around ...
2013–06–02 The Pittsburgh Penguins Penguin
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2013–06–01 The Arabic FedEx Logo
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2013–05–31 20 e-mails over / 20 weeks from the / Sent mail folders of: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Kate and Laura ...
2013–05–30 Hellman's Mayo
text … You could turn Hellman’s brilliantly witty twenty-thousand word Profiles into one-liners: “When he is not with close friends, Le ...
2013–05–28 Liz Brown on the 'Bioptic'
text I’m thinking of Mommie Dearest as an example, in that I never stop seeing Faye Dunaway and Joan Crawford, whether she—or rather, they—are ...
2013–05–28 Postcard from Oberhausen
image Spread from a leaflet for Rachel Reupke’s 10 Seconds or Greater, 2009. Based on the production of royalty-free stock footage, it maps the logical ...
2013–05–28 The earliest known tornado photograph, taken in South Dakota in 1884
2013–05–28 Ferry and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche in the Porsche Design Studio, c. 1959
2013–05–28 Olafur Eliasson Studio, extension cable. Released in 2004 as a limited edition with the title, 10 Meter Cable For All Colours.
2013–05–23 Foote and his mouth
text For roughly three decades in the mid-18th century Foote was England’s pre-eminent stage comic, the toast of the clubs and coffee-houses of London’s ...
2013–05–22 Five Bar Blues
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2013–05–22 Next Section of the High Line
image The path [from West 30th Street up to West 34th] quickly opens up to offer sweeping views of the Hudson River, the West Side Highway, and the Penn ...
2013–05–22 A wild goose in the history museum in Aralsk, on what was once the shore of the Aral Sea. A “wild goose chase” was originally a horse race ...
2013–05–22 The monster studies for his Generals?
quote Well, that’s gothic literature for you. It’s unintentionally hilarious. I’m not the first one to notice. But I think it’s interesting the way ...
2013–05–22 The Waffle House Index
quote Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, came up with the idea of the “Waffle House index” as an informal way of ...
2013–05–22 Room 237
text … my favorite part of Room 237 [is] the analysis of the Overlook Hotel’s uncanny architecture by the solitary female voice-over — ...
2013–05–16 Blickets
text In “Playing for All Kinds of Possibilities,” a very fun science article in yesterday’s New York Times, reporter David Dobbs describes how ...
2013–05–15 Jay DeFeo, ca. 1960. Photo via The Whitney Museum of American Art
2013–05–14 Ghostface calls it as he sees it
quote On Supreme Clientele: “I went to jail. But before that, it was just one of those times. I was still Ghost, even though Ironman wasn’t really ...
2013–05–14 Privy Seal
quote Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists gives us a time and a place at which the major advanced countries abruptly pivoted from stimulus to austerity. The time ...
2013–05–14 Niave Whorfianism
quote I have often tried here on Language Log, in playful or polemical ways, to critique naive lexical strong Whorfianism, which seems to take up most of the ...
2013–05–14 Wall tiles at LAX
image Designed by Charles Kratka (1922-2007)
2013–05–14 101 Spring Street Restored
image The exterior of 101 Spring Street, 1972. Photograph: Paul Katz/Courtesy Judd Foundation Archives. Museum-quality art, museum-quality design, and the ...
2013–05–09 Bottle designed by Sergej Pavlin. In the early 1950s, the father of Cockta, Mr. Emerik Zelinka, working for the Slovenijavino beverage company, ...
2013–05–08 One frame from Gary Panter’s illustrated history for RBMA Daily Note.
2013–05–08 Advertisement for Leo Castelli Gallery in Avalanche 2, 1971.
2013–05–08 Nicola Twilley’s eel registration card with the Cross-Species Adventure Club.
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2013–05–07 The Choco Pie
text The Choco Pie is a mouth-drying, individually wrapped slab of cake, marshmallow and chocolate, and in South Korea it is as important a part of ...
2013–05–06 Shirley Clarke screened Portrait of Jason for perhaps the most impressive and illustrious focus group ever assembled. Among the names on the RSVP list ...
2013–05–03 (Media)
2013–05–02 Towards the end of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s father shows Nick Carraway a book Jimmy Gatz had ‘when he was a boy’, a copy of Hopalong Cassidy ...
2013–04–30 'Classic' as trace of fashion
quote “A classic,” suggested Anthony, “is a successful book that has survived the reaction to the next period or generation. Then ...
2013–04–29 When Bo Jackson ran up that wall
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2013–04–29 Around the time that I began to suspect that I might be a Marxist I became very depressed and spent a lot of time in bed watching television. One thing ...
2013–04–29 Latest episode of Pomerantsevision
text I first met Mamyshev in the mid-noughties. Hyper-camp and always trying on new ideas, he was just planning his next role: Putin. ‘When I became ...
2013–04–28 Common Foley tricks
quote Corn starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunchingA pair of gloves sounds like bird wings flappingAn arrow or thin stick makes a whooshAn ...
2013–04–25 Reverse engineering?
quote This week the Federal Reserve announced that a new, redesigned $100 bill is coming out, and as you’d expect, the thing is a cornucopia of ...
2013–04–25 The Private Life of a Cat, dir Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid (1944)
2013–04–23 Isamu Noguchi in his Long Island City studio, c. 1960s. Photograph by Walter Resier Through April 28th, The Noguchi Museum presents an ...
2013–04–22 'Repo Man: A Lattice of Coincidence'
quote Like Billy Wilder and so many others, Alex Cox saw Los Angeles through the eyes of a foreigner. Perhaps this perspective helped him gauge the weight of ...
2013–04–22 Within You Without You
quote Perhaps there had been a moment in the career of the human animal at which something like self-consciousness became a possibility, and a complex of ...
2013–04–17 The Bitcoin Bubble
text Historically, money arose from, and in conjunction with, this power. (This point has been made repeatedly over the years, most recently in David ...
2013–04–16 Roberto Bolaño at the baths
text Together, riding a Benelli—they were everywhere then—we attempted to visit all the baths in Mexico City, guided by an absolute eagerness that was a ...
2013–04–15 Richard Burton and John le Carré, 1965.
2013–04–15 Young Mr. Marx
text The young Marx began his career by securing a post at a radical newspaper in Germany. Journalism was to provide him for the rest of his days with a ...
2013–04–15 Slices both ways
quote The price wars have put customers in an emotional quandary. Cheryl Costello used to frequent 2 Bros. Pizza, until one opened next door to Vinny Vincenz ...
2013–04–15 Details from the subway poster for The Big Wedding (2013).
2013–04–11 El Giro Gallo
image Photo: Ericka MartinsOf the coterie of taco trucks that line Roosevelt Avenue from Woodside to Corona, El Gallo Giro is one of the most popular. ...
2013–04–11 Suzie Frankfurt's cookbook
quote “So we did the book, Andy with his Dr. Martin’s dyes and Mrs. Warhol [Andy’s mother], her calligraphy. She was gifted and untutored, and we ...
2013–04–09 Maggie Smith, ca. 1950s
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2013–04–04 Still from Wanda, dir Barbara Loden (1970).
2013–04–01 a Jogging book
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2013–04–01 Bottoms up
quote Prokofiev and Balanchine collaborated on the ballet The Prodigal Son of 1929, but as one of the most entertaining passages in the diary makes clear, ...
2013–03–28 This Week's Weegee #96
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2013–03–28 Jan Dibbets at the Museum of Modern Art, 1977
2013–03–27 A few more personal details
quote A few months before the publication of Dusklands in 1974, J.C. Kannemeyer reports, Peter Randall, the director of Ravan Press in Johannesburg, asked ...
2013–03–27 Letters between J.M. Coetzee and Paul Auster
quote Sometimes Auster endeavours to match Coetzee’s otherworldly tone, but it’s obvious that he’s too embedded in a world of opening nights and the ...
2013–03–25 Golden Grrrls (UK), Sea Lions (CA), What Next?, Slonk Donkerson Glasslands Gallery, 23 April, 8:30p, $10. 21+
2013–03–25 Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (1998).
2013–03–22 When a German soldier marched into P. G. Wodehouse’s home in France, in 1940, and gave the distinguished author ten minutes to pack, “Plum,” as ...
2013–03–22 An A from Nabokov
quote I wandered into Lit 311 at the beginning of my sophomore year at Cornell in September 1954. The professor was Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré from ...
2013–03–22 Dwight Garner on Richard Hell
text Mr. Hell’s intellectual progress consisted of defining himself as against, rather than for, things. He scorned the Beats and their “insistence on ...
2013–03–22 From Hugh Kenner, The Counterfeiters (1968): That is Babbage’s beatific vision [of his Difference Engine], that slow settling of suspended ...
2013–03–22 McMuffin variants
In the US and Canada the standard McMuffin consists of a slice of Canadian bacon,[1] a griddle-fried egg, and a slice of American cheese on a toasted ...
2013–03–22 OFM's McMuffin clone
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2013–03–18 Boots not pictured
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2013–03–13 Sylvia Plath interviews Elizabeth Bowen for Mademoiselle, Cambridge, MA, May 1953.
2013–03–12 Karl-Marx-Allee née Stalinallee
quote After its completion in the 1950s, the boulevard was very popular with Berliners and visitors alike. People crowded into the stores. “Taking the ...
2013–03–11 The fight of the century at Fanelli's
quote One turning point in the development of Artists’ SoHo came in the wake of the Joe Frazier-Mohammed Ali fight of March 8, 1971. As the Videofreex, ...
2013–03–11 Source code
quote Joseph Jon Lanthier writes, quite wonderfully:With respect to your quaternary take on DESIGN FOR LIVING:Not having been the one on whom you picked (at ...
2013–03–11 Unused poster for Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point by Milton Glaser (1970)
2013–03–11 Hike/saunter
quote Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that ...
2013–03–04 Whit Stillman
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2013–03–04 Sinister Pop
image Installation view of Sinister Pop (Whitney through March 4). Featuring Christo’s hand truck.
2013–03–04 Alma Thomas, 'Late Night Reflections' (1972)
image Acrylic on canvas, 28 ¾ x 44 inches. On display in Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum through April 28.
2013–03–04 ↑ architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Weze, 2012. Axonometric projection of the furnished wall.
2013–03–04 Kate Moss, first sitting. 26th October 1988. Edition – 1/5.
2013–03–04 Joe Brainard in 1977. Photo: Peter Hujar.
2013–03–04 Regressions
quote At the midway point in Margaret Wise Brown’s beloved Goodnight Moon (1947)—that instant when the book becomes a sort of palindrome and bids good ...
2013–03–04 The predilections of twins
text There is further cause for concern. Mistra’s inventories encoded a surprising array of complex, highly individuated behaviours by means of ...
2013–02–28 From Simon E. Fisher, “Tangled webs: tracing the connections between genes and cognition” (Cognition Vol. 101, Issue 2, Sept ...
2013–02–28 Venue's vote for best card catalog entry ever—a Franz Feneon-worthy novel in two lines, filed under "Horses. Biography."—was brought to our ...
2013–02–28 Jessica Rath, Kazakhstan Elite. 3.5” x 2.5” x 3” (each), high-fire glazed porcelain
2013–02–28 The shape of cheese to come
quote IMAGE: In an extremely small 1991 study, C. J. Overbeeke and M. E. Peters of the Delft University of Technology gathered preliminary evidence to show ...
2013–02–28 [Karl Ove Knausgaard] takes his little daughter, Vanje, to a classmate’s birthday party. She is a shy and introverted child, but she longs to play ...
2013–02–27 (Media)
2013–02–26 E.B. White, 'Death of a Pig' (1948)
quote Shortly after five o’clock I remembered that we had been invited out to dinner that night and realized that if I were to dose a pig there was no ...
2013–02–26 An interview with Morrissey
quote I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We ...
2013–02–26 [Christopher Ricks] told me, with a great and sharp glint in his eyes, that Yeats was the most overrated poet in the English language. And, he added ...
2013–02–26 [The Centre Pompidou retrospective on Eileen Gray] begins with the exquisite lacquerwork Gray made in the early 1900s after discovering the craft as a ...
2013–02–26 ↑ Adrien Rovero, Sedie 1:20 [“Chair 1:20”] pasta, 2007
2013–02–25 Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide
text I mention this now because I think that, after my nearly 20 years online, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide page at ...
2013–02–25 Vauxhall & We
text The royal parks, such as St James’s and Hyde Park, began opening to the public in the 17th century, while places like the Bear Gardens south of the ...
2013–02–25 Garrett McNamara on an approximately 100-ft wave Praia do Norte beach, near Nazaré, Portugal
2013–02–24 Poster for One, Two, Three (1961), designed by Saul Bass.
2013–02–22 Some photographs of Gérard Depardieu
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2013–02–19 Direct and synch sound make us feel present; their noticeable absence is an immediate distancing device; and more complex relationships to the film ...
2013–02–19 At 'Snout to Tail,' JTT
image Anna-Sophie Berger. Untitled, 2012 (c-print, 30.5 × 20.5 in).
2013–02–19 The ThinkPad laptopcomputer designed in 1995 by Richard Sapper with Sam Lucente, Robert P. Tennant, John Karidis and the IBM Corporation
2013–02–19 'Racecraft'
text Which is where racecraft comes in. If today there is widespread agreement about the inadequacy of race as a biological concept, agreement is just as ...
2013–02–19 Indicated saturation
text Once in a while, though, the stakes get raised. In October 2009, an administrator posted a thread with the subject line “If you have ordered 2C-B-fly ...
2013–02–18 Henri Matisse, 'Histoires juives' (Jewish Histories), 1924
image On display in Matisse: In Search of True Painting Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 17
2013–02–17 Les Murray grew up in rural New South Wales in a two-room, earth-floored wooden shack roofed with shingles and later corrugated iron. The walls and ...
2013–02–15 Rheingold, 'Computerbeat' (1984)
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2013–02–15 Kuzmich studies
quote When he was suddenly taken ill in the southern city of Taganrog on 8 November 1825, the 47-year-old tsar Alexander I had been considering giving up the ...
2013–02–14 The lusts of the regime’s satraps were also a matter of public knowledge. During the disastrous military campaign in Greece in the winter of 1940-41, ...
2013–02–14 Norman Rockwell, 'The Soda-Jerk' (1953)
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2013–02–13 Cosby wears a custom track-themed sweater, conceived by costume director Sarah Lemire and executed by a Boston architecture student.
2013–02–13 Paul Windle • ADC Young Guns 2012
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2013–02–12 Diatomaceous earth
image Diatomaceous earth, also known as diatomite or kieselgur, as viewed under bright field illumination on a light microscope. Diatomaceous earth is a ...
2013–02–12 Genre as simile
quote I did not really know where I was going, so, when anyone asked me, I said to Russia. Thus my trip started, like an autobiography, upon a rather nicely ...
2013–02–12 'Powerful and arrogant'
quote The Tsar Bomba was flown to its test site by a specially modified Tu-95V release plane, flown by Major Andrei Durnovtsev. Taking off from an airfield ...
2013–02–11 The original Sarah Lund sweater. €280 The other Sarah Lund sweater from series one. €280 Sarah Lund's ...
2013–02–11 Victor Shklovsky
text Shklovsky made a book of it, an odd epistolary novel titled Zoo, or Letters Not About Love (1923): Triolet had allowed him to write to her on the ...
2013–02–11 An encounter with J-P Sartre (2000)
text Les Temps modernes had played an extraordinary role in French, and later European and even Third World, intellectual life. Sartre had gathered around ...
2013–02–11 Sylvia and Marty
quote Sylvia Plath ’55 and Marcia Brown Stern ’54 Three weeks before she died on July 25, 2012, Marcia (Marty) Brown Stern ’54 sent me a registered ...
2013–02–10 New Year Special, Congee Village (100 Allen Street)
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2013–02–08 When in a good and merry mood Trisy would seize a dozen eggs, and a bucket of flour, coerce a cow to milk itself, and then mixing the ingredients toss ...
2013–02–07 Angela Carter on Elizabeth Wilson (1985)
text Here she sums up the present condition of aesthetics with positively majestic severity. Yet it is precisely when she discusses fashion in the present ...
2013–02–07 Robert Hughes, 'The Shock of the New' Ep. 3 (1980)
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2013–02–07 The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks
text In comic strips of the early to mid-20th century, cartoonists often needed to represent expressive non-verbal noises in the characters' speech ...
2013–02–05 Sofa cloth swatch for the Miller House. ca. 1955
image Hand-woven fabric selected by Alexander Girard
2013–02–01 'Craft Horizons,' 1950s/1960s
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2013–01–31 P.G. Wodehouse, 'Back to Whiskers'
text Whether the old critics were bitter because they had beards or grew beards because they were bitter is beside the point. The fact remains that all the ...
2013–01–31 40 Years of Artists Space
image Artists Space staff, 1979. Photographed by Cindy Sherman as part of a photo shoot for Cover Magazine.January 31 – March 15, 2013 NYU Bobst Library - ...
2013–01–30 Neutral monism
text Thomas Nagel [in Mind and Cosmos] begins with the clearest of materialism’s problems: the great difficulty it has explaining the subjective character ...
2013–01–29 Krazy khat
quote In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence (less than ...
2013–01–29 Marco Pierre White, late '80s
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2013–01–29 Musical saw, 2
quote [William] Styron would enjoy his first taste of fame at a party thrown in 1952 by Leo Lerman, who decades later became the editor of Vanity Fair and ...
2013–01–28 Façade magazine, No. 1 (1976)
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2013–01–28 The temperature of self-regard (1997)
text … As Audrey edged toward retirement, she suffered substitution; she watched from the sidelines, without sorrow, as other stars took her place. ...
2013–01–25 Luigi Ghirri, 'Kodachrome' (1978)
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2013–01–25 Bezark #24
image From The Historical Dictionary of American Slang: bezark [orig. unkn.] an odd or contemptible man or woman. ca1925 in D. Runyon Poems for Men 15: ...
2013–01–25 Chez Sardine, 183 W 10th Street
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2013–01–24 Me digress
quote Alistair Cookie introduced viewers to a spot of culture while relaxing in a well-stuffed armchair. Though seemingly more sedate and urbane, Alistair ...
2013–01–24 I had literally cut it myself earlier that year — with a pair of fingernail scissors — while working on the “Peyton Place” TV series at Fox ...
2013–01–24 Chin Chin, 'Don't Wanna Be Prisoners' (1985)
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2013–01–24 Charles Reznikoff, 'By the Waters of Manhattan'
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2013–01–24 Rubber-tree plant
quote Henry Hubbard, congressional correspondent (1959–85): Mel Elfin, who went on to become the Washington bureau chief, once did a cover on psychiatry. ...
2013–01–24 Garlic knots at Williamsburg Pizza, 265 Union Ave
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2013–01–24 Owp!
quote First published in 1968, Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea continues to be one of the best selling and best loved children’s books in ...
2013–01–23 (Media)
2013–01–23 Glen Tomkins 01.23.13 at 6:52 pm Yet another mind wracked on the treacherous shoals of Thucydides.What Victor D is trying to do, ...
2013–01–18 Exclamation marks and colons
quote From James Thurber’s The Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Guide to Modern English Usage, The New Yorker 1931. It is my contention that a ...
2013–01–18 Fabrico Próprio is Portuguese for “made properly”, and it’s what cafes in Portugal hang in their window if their cakes are made on the premises. ...
2013–01–17 BYTR, Houseboat, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2012. Exploded view.
2013–01–16 Raymond Queneau exercises style
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2013–01–16 From 'Walls Paper,' Gordon Matta-Clark (1973)
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2013–01–16 57th Street Rag
quote The Fisk Building had a stolid utilitarian look, like one of Ben Katchor’s cartoon office buildings, and was surrounded by automobile showrooms, at ...
2013–01–15 A thing of beauty is a tape dispenser
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2013–01–14 Excerpt from 'Soy Cuba' (1964, d. Mikhail Kalatozov)
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2013–01–14 Stills from 'Memories of Underdevelopment' (1968, d. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
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2013–01–14 This strangely-neglected topic
quote The MLA jobs tumblr lampoons the tendency of US institutions to make increasingly impossible demands of those hires they do make (‘The person ...
2013–01–14 From 'Bartleby & Co' (2001), Enrique Vila-Matas
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2013–01–13 The Reveille dynasty
quote Reveille is the official mascot of Texas A&M University. Students adopted the first Reveille, a mixed-breed dog, in 1931. To thank Texas A&M ...
2013–01–12 Word association
quote football (n.)open-air game, first recorded c.1400; see foot (n.) + ball (n.1). Forbidden in a Scottish statute of 1424. The first reference to the ball ...
2013–01–11 Earlier this season, Harbaugh described public concern over Alex Smith’s confidence as “gobble gobble turkey.” And, coach, what is gobble gobble ...
2013–01–08 Elephants
quote When he receives the papers, Mr. Depardieu will become a Russian citizen, liable only for a flat, 13 percent income tax rate, compared with the 75 ...
2013–01–07 Callimachus in Context
quote He had the huge job, which he carried out in exemplary fashion, of creating, virtually ex nihilo, a catalogue raisonné, known as the Pinakes ...
2013–01–05 R&R
During two extended tours for the USO in 1944 and 1945,[24] Marlene Dietrich performed for Allied troops on the front lines in Algeria, Italy, England ...
2013–01–04 From 'The 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time'
image Joe Namath, Bills at Jets — Dec. 8, 1974. Roberto Clemente, Padres at Pirates — June 16, 1972. Carmen Basilio and Tony DeMarco, ...
2013–01–04 Pump full of lead
quote Well, here’s one possibility: Pb(CH2CH3)4. In 1994, Rick Nevin was a consultant working for the US Department of Housing and Urban ...
2013–01–04 Most Read Topics
quote Books and Literature Array Cooking and Cookbooks Alcoholic Beverages Actors and Actresses Restaurants Computers and the ...
2013–01–03 R6 cigarette packs, Lubalin studio, 1967–8
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2012–12–31 Umberto Eco's lists
quote Eco: Look, ever since the days of Aristotle, we have been trying to define things based on their essence. The definition of man? An animal that acts in ...
2012–12–29 Dear Viola
quote ‘Bad taste can be very much a symptom of immorality,’ Mary Whitehouse wrote to one of her supporters. They knew what was good, based on a solid ...
2012–12–24 Wam-doodler
quote Patsy Cline was born Virginia Hensley in Winchester in 1932, the first child of a 43-year-old blacksmith with his 16-year-old bride. Her mother, Hilda, ...
2012–12–22 Toothbutter
quote tandsmør: noun. Butter spread so thickly as to reveal teeth marks upon biting. Fru Storm said, November 13, 2012 Tandsmør goes very well with ...
2012–12–14 Brian Dillon on 'Aspen'
text In August 1971 the US Postal Service wrote to Phyllis Johnson, the publisher of Aspen, an arts and culture quarterly then in its sixth year, to inform ...
2012–12–12 D.D. and Leslie Tillet, 1947
2012–12–11 Mladen Stillnović, 1993
quote My observation and knowledge of Western art has lately led me to a conclusion that art cannot exist any more in the West. This is not to say that there ...
2012–12–11 Messi's magic tricks
text On Feb. 26, with Barcelona tied, 1-1, against Atletico Madrid in the 81st minute, Messi curled a free kick from 25 yards with impeccable accuracy and ...
2012–12–10 Polaroid SX-70 advertisement by the Eames office, 1972
2012–12–10 Bruno Munari in 'Domus,' 1944
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2012–12–06 Box 1, Folder 1
image Riot Grrrl Collection. Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU.
2012–12–06 Superstudio, Passiflora. Lamp, 1968. Collection Vitra Design Museum.
2012–12–06 (Media)
2012–12–05 Cocktail wallpaper. United States, 1936-56. Gift of Suzanne Lipschutz. 1991-89-110.
2012–12–05 First appearance of 'Bellini'
quote 1956 Mary McCarthy Venice Observed 19/1 Harry’s Bar has a drink called a Tiziano, made of grapefruit juice and champagne and colored pink with ...
2012–12–04 Sanyo Stereo Music Center
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2012–12–04 Talulah Gosh, 1986
image L-R: Mathew Fletcher, Elizabeth Price, Amelia Fletcher, Chris Scott and Peter Momtchiloff
2012–12–04 Ed Ruscha at LACMA
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2012–12–04 Urban Dictionary: Oak Cliff
quote A large community located in the Southwest part of Dallas known for being one of the rowdiest parts of the city. Oak Cliff is made up of almost ...
2012–11–30 Chief Mouser of Downing Street
image Larry is the latest in a long line of official mousers at Downing Street, including stalwart ratter Humphrey, who served under Margaret Thatcher and ...
2012–11–30 Petting parties
quote Shifter glossary Oil Burner: girl who chews gum Princess Mary: girl about to be married Dud: a Flapper who can’t keep in the swim Young Otis: chap ...
2012–11–29 From a letter from Frederick Engels to his sister, 1840
quote Moustaches always were the pride Of gallant gentlemen far and wide. Brave soldiers faced their country’s foes In brown or black mustachios. So, in ...
2012–11–28 Saul Steinberg's Manhattan
quote An early impression of the city [in 1942], which he summarized in three words, proved indelible: “diners, girls, cars.” He wrote that he ...
2012–11–27 We will always have Parisians!
quote Thin, pale, and refined, Apollonia Poilâne is more of a baguette of a woman than a miche. “I do not believe in making one bread with hazelnuts, ...
2012–11–26 [Derrida] also had a strong distaste for the public prises de position by which French intellectuals transformed themselves into celebrities. While ...
2012–11–23 Electro ⚡ Pounce
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2012–11–21 Texts about yellowism
text Rothko said his paintings begin an unknown adventure into an unknown space. I think that especially “Black on Maroon” with the title “A potential ...
2012–11–21 Architectural Forum Magazine Covers, 1949–1953
image June 1953 Proposed UNESCO headquarters in Paris by Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi & Bernard Zehrfuss
2012–11–20 If-by-whiskey
quote The label if-by-whiskey refers to a 1952 speech by Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat, Jr., a young lawmaker from the U.S. state of Mississippi, on the ...
2012–11–20 'When Dean Young Talks About Wine,' Tony Hoagland (2003)
quote The worm thrashes when it enters the tequila. The grape cries out in the wine vat crusher.But when Dean Young talks about wine, his voice is strangely ...
2012–11–20 Stills from 'The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975'
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2012–11–16 To Have And Have Another
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2012–11–14 Canada's national dish
quote … This makes Kraft Dinner, not poutine, our de facto national dish. We eat 3.2 boxes each in an average year, about 55 percent more than ...
2012–11–14 The lemony Richard Burton
text Burton’s diaries, published now for the first time, are filled with these kinds of pocket-size delights. I grapple-snapped my way through them and ...
2012–11–14 'Study For A Fence And A Wall,' 2006
text The fence/wall could be built, Mr. King explained, using a slipform machine to lay a concrete foundation in a 5-foot deep trench cut into the desert ...
2012–11–14 Lulu & Po, 154 Carlton Avenue
image Firehouse chicken ($18). Marinated 14-hrs w/ sugar and paprika and seared under cast-iron, w/ roasted sunchokes. Burger ($12). DeBragga beef ...
2012–11–13 Herman Wouk at 97
quote Old enough to remember Simon and Schuster as actual people (“they were as different as chalk and cheese”), Mr. Wouk has written a novel that is ...
2012–11–13 Edward Steichen. Portrait of W.B. Yeats for Conde Nast, 1932.
2012–11–13 The protagonist of this story has no name. It is known simply as the Chicken, a nonname that seems right, considering its obscure origins. How it came ...
2012–11–11 Ignoreland
quote 35. Phil 11.10.12 at 3:33 pm +1 to Uncle Kvetch. I’d forgotten quite how much I hated Reagan (and why). Thinking of all the political leaders I’ve ...
2012–11–10 Occupy, 1978
quote From A Manual For Manuel, Julio Cortázar. 1978. So just wait till I tell you about another form of response that only yesterday raised a big ruckus ...
2012–11–09 Marc Riboud. Wembley Stadium, 1954.
2012–11–09 Donut District
image Donut District is the complex of galleries in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, that includes Primetime, 247365 and Know More Games. And Dunkin Donuts.
2012–11–07 Decoy. Chrisopher Specce. Sapele and maple, 10” × 5” × 7.5”.
2012–11–06 The photograph as truth-claim or art-object
quote Is photography a way of documenting the world that has an inherent “truth-claim” on the real? Or is it, as Steichen suggested, essentially graphic, ...
2012–11–06 Bruced out
quote … This material is well known. The Springsteen obsessive — I rate myself at about an 8.1 out of a possible 10 — will hunt instead for ...
2012–11–02 From 'Privy Seal' (1907) by Ford Madox Ford
quote A boy brought her a trencher filled with chopped things, and a man in a blue jerkin came to her side bearing a middling pig, seared to a pale clear ...
2012–10–30 Sargent, 'Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife' (1885)
image Oil on canvas, 52.1 × 62.2 cm. Private collection.
2012–10–30 Horizon of mud
quote We all knew which neighbourhoods faced the most immediate danger – Battery Park, Red Hook, Rockaway – but it wasn’t until late last night, safe ...
2012–10–24 Edwin Georgi for the Saturday Evening Post, 1950s
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2012–10–23 Lance Wyman: identity for 1968 Mexico Olympics
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2012–10–23 Rosemary Hill remembers Sylvia Kristel
quote It must have been almost exactly ten years later that I met Sylvia Kristel when she opened her front door to me in Ghent. It was just after Christmas. ...
2012–10–23 Himmler's hobby horses
quote To an extraordinary degree, the proclivities of the leader shaped the public life of the organisation. Even as a very young man, Himmler had ...
2012–10–22 The human microbiome
quote “I thought he was nuts,” Goldberg told me. He never gave the encounter another thought—until a couple of years ago, when he begun to ...
2012–10–21 Website of ArtAsiaPacific magazine
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2012–10–21 Robert Brownjohn. Preparatory study for Goldfinger title sequence. 1964. Silver-gelatin print. Photograph by Herbert Spencer. The Museum of Modern Art, ...
2012–10–16 Interview with Rosalind Krauss
quote Krauss: Oh, really?Bois: All these people who were branded as attacking formalism kept saying not to dismiss it so fast. Well, that’s where we came ...
2012–10–16 Dusen Dusen
image Brooklyn-based line, created by Ellen Van Dusen. Studied the psychology of design at Tufts University, exploring how we experience aesthetics. Interned ...
2012–10–14 Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini, 1960
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2012–10–12 Early Warhol sketch, Frieze Art Fair
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2012–10–09 James Wood on 'realism,' again
quote Over the years, Tom Wolfe has campaigned strenuously on behalf of the journalistic role in fiction. In “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast” and ...
2012–10–09 Eugen Schönebeck. Majakowski, 1966. Graphite on paper, 38 1/4 × 28 3/4 in.
2012–10–08 (Media)
2012–10–05 LP label for 'Low Life' (Peter Saville, 1985)
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2012–10–03 Christopher Tayler on the BBC/HBO 'Parade's End'
quote What’s more, it was non-terrible in unusual ways for a high-end adaptation. Unlike last year’s movie of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and lots of ...
2012–10–02 King Tuff, 'Screaming Skull'
quote The Hoagies at about 23 hours agoTingly, metallic, sexy. This riff sounds how it feels to press the tip of your tongue against a 9-volt battery.
2012–09–27 Fiorucci shopping bag
image From Bandboxes and Shopping Bags in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1978. Design: Lorraine Wild
2012–09–24 David Hillman (Pentagram), 1980s layout for the Guardian.
2012–09–21 The Mascots, 'A Sad Boy' (1965)
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2012–09–21 Stills from 'If...' (1968, d. Lindsay Anderson)
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2012–09–21 Michael Friedman in the Tombs
quote After some time, two other men are placed in my cell. They were arrested last night, but because of a leg injury in one man and an unclear condition in ...
2012–09–20 The Avalanches: Second Album
quote The Avalanches have been working on their second album since at least 2005. Seltmann had said that after starting out as “ambient world ...
2012–09–19 TM Research Archive
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2012–09–17 Hôtel Droog, Amsterdam
image Well, while you can actually spend the night here, there’s only one room. It’s located on the highest level overlooking the surrounding ...
2012–09–17 On ‘A Wilderness of Error,’ by Errol Morris
quote Warner Herzog, the German film director, had promised an unknown filmmaker named Errol Morris that if he completed his first movie, a documentary about ...
2012–09–17 Jonathan Rosenbaum's 'ten best movies of the 90s'
quote In alphabetical order. Actress/Center Stage/Ruan Ling Yu (Stanley Kwan, 1991) A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, the ...
2012–09–16 Torpedo juice
quote Torpedo juice is American slang for an alcoholic beverage, first mixed in World War II, made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel ...
2012–09–16 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan
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2012–09–13 Politico-psychopathology
quote According to Adorno, in psychoanalysis only the exaggerations are true. If you wished to characterize the Democrats and the Republicans in terms of ...
2012–09–13 Public Books
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2012–09–13 Burberry Prorsum S/S 2013
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2012–09–11 From the critical writings of Ford Madox Ford
quote [Joseph Conrad and I] agreed that the general effect of a novel must be the general effect that life makes on mankind. A novel must therefore not be a ...
2012–09–07 Commes des garçons feature, Interview Russia
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2012–09–06 Containers at the Documenta Archiv, Kassel
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2012–08–30 Joe Shlabotnik
quote Joe Shlabotnik is a minor-league baseball player who, inexplicably, is greatly admired by Charlie Brown. He never appears in the strip, but is ...
2012–08–30 Peggy Fleming
image Peggy Fleming, the only U.S. athlete to receive a gold medal in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.
2012–08–24 Little egg sandwich at Dominique Ansel, Spring Street
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2012–08–23 Studies in druggies
quote I would take the stuff on Friday evenings after work and would then spend the whole weekend so high that images and thoughts would become rather like ...
2012–08–23 Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (1936-1972)
2012–08–22 The bubble
quote “You did it because you understood the campaign wasn’t about me,” he says, speaking out into a dark space filled with living people who he ...
2012–08–17 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
quote The role of Poet Laureate is an honorary position that entails no specific duties, although there is an expectation that the holder will write verse ...
2012–08–16 Rafaël Rozendaal. 2009, ink on paper, 41 × 31 cm.
2012–08–15 Ostriching
quote Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostrich, the kind that bury their heads not in the hope of not ...
2012–08–13 Secret world
quote Q: In the American dub of “the Secret World of Arrietty” the barrowers refer to the humans as “beans” shortened from “Human Being”. Was ...
2012–08–13 From an interview with Lawrence Durrell, 1959
quote INTERVIEWER Can you summarize what’s wrong with the way we’re living in [England]? DURRELL The things one notices ...
2012–08–09 Campari-soda bottle, designed by Fortunato Depero (1932)
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2012–08–08 Ice cream sandwich at Donatella, 8th Avenue
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2012–08–07 Students at Vassar College, 1950s
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2012–08–07 Cover of 'Vogue,' January 1927
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2012–08–07 Gang's all here, May 2009
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2012–08–07 Anri Sala, 'Dammi I Colori' (2003)
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2012–08–06 John Foster: anonymous photography
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2012–07–17 Cinema Ritrovato
image The ‘Cento anni fa’ programme is the brainchild of Mariann Lewinsky, a scholar whose expansive vision is coupled with an infectious enthusiasm; she ...
2012–07–13 Lubalin Studio's design for Visa Travelers Cheque
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2012–07–08 'The Stiletto in Putin’s Side'
image Opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak in her Moscow restaurant. At a few minutes before 8 in the morning on the eve of Russia Day last month — the ...
2012–07–08 'Song Of The Master And Boatswain,' W. H. Auden
quote At Dirty Dick’s and Sloppy Joe’s We drank our liquor straight, Some went upstairs with Margery, And ...
2012–07–05 From 'The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard'
quote Joe Brainard’s “Untitled (Bicycle Ace),” 1975. Mozart is coming out of the machine—real soft—just for company. Like that of a cat, in a ...
2012–07–05 Obama on the Upper West Side
quote Dreams employed very permissively a technique the literary theorist Michael André Bernstein has called ‘backshadowing’: a device of conventional ...
2012–07–04 'A Farewell to Arms': alternate endings
quote And in No. 34, the “Fitzgerald ending,” suggested by Hemingway’s friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway wrote that the world “breaks ...
2012–07–04 According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses that permeates space and ...
2012–07–03 Fred Astaire, from 'Funny Face' (1957)
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2012–07–02 Nora Ephron, from 'Heartburn' (1983)
quote I have no problem with [Lillian Hellman’s] political persona, or with her insistence on making herself the centerpiece of most of the historical ...
2012–06–29 Lunch again today!
quote The much-tweeted-about Lena Dunham has said her father finds Twitter “infinitely unrelatable”: “He’s like, ‘Why would I want to tell anybody ...
2012–06–29 'Marxism' at the 303 Gallery
image Richard Prince You Bet Your Life 2010 Ink Jet and acrylic on canvas 115 × 148 inches overall RP 1239
2012–06–29 … Yet how will this data-heavy approach translate to other sports, those based on more qualitative data, and what might this tell us about ...
2012–06–27 John McPhee: The Writing Life
quote “He always said that he wanted to publish authors, not books. This principle contained not only an admirable loft but also a faint implication ...
2012–06–27 Summer attitude: Watts, July 1966
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2012–06–25 Red one-piece
image The logo of Portland knitting company Jantzen, origin of the swimsuit, 1920. How far we’ve come only makes it all the more striking that Fawcett’s ...
2012–06–25 Tati Cotliar, Chinatown
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2012–06–22 List of Peanuts characters
quote Charlie Brown The main character; a lovable guy, dominated by insecurities Snoopy Charlie Brown's lovable dog Linus van ...
2012–06–22 Little golf pencil
text By Mary Ruefle, from Issue 13 of Ecotone. Madness, Rack, and Honey, a collection of Ruefle’s writings on poetry, will be published next month by Wave ...
2012–06–22 Manual Scan, 'New Difference' (1984)
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2012–06–22 More on Monroe
quote David Thomson has high standards in film stars and he imposes rather firm rules about how they ought to twinkle, but he isn’t being fair to Marilyn ...
2012–06–22 Chwast/Rodchenko
image Alexander Rodchenko. Poster for the Soviet publisher Gosizdat, 1924. (Pictured: Lilya Brik) Seymour Chwast Collection. From Series 7. Color positive ...
2012–06–20 Richard Dawson (1932–2012)
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2012–06–15 Prill Vieceli Cremers: Poster for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder month at the Xenix Cinema in Zurich (2012)
2012–06–13 Flying cars, technology and labor
text The usual move in science fiction is to remain vague about the dates, so as to render “the future” a zone of pure fantasy, no different than Middle ...
2012–06–13 Igor Savchenko, 'Alphabet of Gestures' (1989-96)
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2012–06–12 Rachel Comey, Resort 2012
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2012–06–11 On Chinese signage in Hergé
text One prevalent poster is an advertisement for Siemens (西門子, ‘Xi-men-zi’), which had run factories in China since 1899. Indoors there are ...
2012–06–11 Numero to reissue slew of Shoes LPs
image After we got talking with Jeff Murphy from Shoes about including them on Buttons: From Champaign To Chicago, it occurred to us that we were standing on ...
2012–06–08 Mack & Manco (Ocean City, NJ)
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2012–06–08 Summer attitude: Rizzo
image Stockard Channing, 1978
2012–06–08 Alexander Girard in his studio, 1967
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2012–06–07 From 'Transits of Venus' by Richard A. Proctor, 1883
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2012–06–06 'Don't Come Around Here No More'
quote “Don’t Come Around Here No More” is a song written by Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David A. Stewart of the ...
2012–06–04 Lindsey Buckingham, 'Never Going Back Again' (1997)
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2012–06–01 Bitesize models by Gary Panter
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2012–05–31 Floris van Dyck. Still Life, 1613. Oil on canvas, 49.5 × 77 cm. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
2012–05–29 Orhan Pamuk’s museum
quote Ten years later, Pamuk came up with an insane plan: to write a novel in the form of a museum catalogue, while simultaneously building the museum to ...
2012–05–29 'The Solar Microscope,' in Child's magazine, Volume 2 (1816)
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2012–05–29 From a review of 'Laguna Beach,' 2005
quote “Laguna Beach” is ingeniously shot. With photography by Hisham Abed, this reality series looks like no other; it is the best-looking show ...
2012–05–29 Totokaelo's brick and mortar store
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2012–05–25 Interview with Royal Headache
text 1. Big Star – Radio CityNo one has ever been this badass at guitar. Alex Chilton is probably my favorite guitarist of all time, these are his guitar ...
2012–05–24 Jonas Wood, 'Interiors'
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2012–05–24 P.G. Wodehouse Quote Generator
quote The fishy glitter in his eye became intensified. He looked like a halibut which had been asked by another halibut to lend it a couple of quid till ...
2012–05–24 Titan, multi spectral overlay
image This image shows Titan in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. It was taken by Cassini’s imaging science subsystem on Oct. 26, 2004, and is ...
2012–05–24 Richard Belzer
quote Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC)Law & Order (NBC)The X-Files (Fox)The Beat (UPN)Law & Order: Trial by Jury (NBC)Belzer's appearance on Trial ...
2012–05–23 Bar tray, 1900–1930. The New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 2002.1.3205
2012–05–22 Waldi
image Waldi was designed by Otl Aicher and was the first official Olympic mascot. He was created for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and was modeled on a ...
2012–05–22 Tall Dwarfs, 'The Slide'
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2012–05–18 Michael Merriam: 'Brothel, Washington DC'
text I always hesitate and breathe deeply before I tell any of these stories. I don’t really know what they mean. Looking back, despite all my ...
2012–05–16 The making of Marilyn Monroe
text Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland had challenged and defeated the contract system. Katharine Hepburn contrived her own material as early as The ...
2012–05–16 Yeats, probably January 1939
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2012–05–15 @egabbert I think poems, like poets, should end in despondency and madness. I don't care how they begin as long as it's iambic.— Sarang ...
2012–05–13 James Thurber, 'Our Own Modern English Usage: After Reading a Book on the Subject'
text The Buried Whom, as it is called, forms a special problem. That is where the word occurs deep in a sentence. For a ready example, take the common ...
2012–05–11 Lorine Niedecker, 1970
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2012–05–11 Hugh Kenner on the Oxford English Dictionary
quote Set promised trouble as early as 1881, when James Murray, the chief editor, came to doubt if the language contained a more perplexing word. An ...
2012–05–11 Interview with Michel Houellebecq
quote INTERVIEWER Why don’t you live in France? HOUELLEBECQ Partly to pay fewer taxes and partly to learn your beautiful language, madam. And because ...
2012–05–10 François Truffaut with bubble-blowing Dumbo toy
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2012–05–10 Vidal Sassoon futzing with Mia Farrow’s hair for Rosemary’s Baby, 1968
2012–05–08 We can perceive guitars
video Fuyuki Yamakawa. ATOMIC GUITAR model No. 1 + model No. 2 Stratocaster-type, 2011. Performance for Snow Contemporary, Art Fair Tokyo 2012. Two canary ...
2012–05–08 Xu Bing. First Class, 2011. Cigarettes, adhesive, carpet. Installation view of part of Bing’s “Tobacco Project” at the Virginia ...
2012–05–08 Berndnaut Smilde. Nimbus II, 2012. Cloud in room. Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn. [Video] Lambda print, 75 × 112 cm: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk.
2012–05–07 A critic and his cheese
quote The Stilton stood encumbered with a swaddling band, girded about with a cincture, scooped out on top like a crater of the moon. It was placed in front ...
2012–05–07 The Magic Flute, summary of Act 2, Scenes 4–7
quote Scene 4: A hall in the temple of OrdealTamino and Papageno must again suffer the test of silence, a more difficult variation this time: An old woman ...
2012–05–06 Grendel
quote An illustration of Grendel by J.R. Skelton from Stories of Beowulf. Grendel is described as “Very terrible to look upon.” The poem Beowulf ...
2012–05–04 Millennium Magazines, at MoMA through 14 May
image Showpaper, no.110: Tod Seelie, July 26-Aug. 9, 2011; John Mejias; no.120: Casey Farnum
2012–05–04 David Weiss, 1946–2012
quote Peter Fischli and David Weiss, from the Equilibriums series, 1984–5 Peter Fischli: The little book of questions, includes the question: ‘Do I ...
2012–05–04 Anthony Andrews, 1981
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2012–05–04 Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, 1949
quote I haven’t been able to “work” at all, so spend most of my time very pleasantly sitting on my balcony blowing bubbles.
2012–04–30 Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky in 8 rounds
quote Marcia Miner at 11:23 am on April 27, 2012 I covered Susan Sontag who gave a public lecture in 2000 at Fairfield University. She recalled the ...
2012–04–30 'Pride & Prejudice' in the editorial style of The Economist
quote Comment 15. Neville Morley, 04.30.12 at 10:39 am The Bennet household is in desperate need of far-reaching reform, as it faces up to the consequences ...
2012–04–30 Punch and Judy
quote Along with Punch and Judy, the cast of characters usually includes their baby, a hungry crocodile, a clown, an officious policeman, and a prop string ...
2012–04–30 Mestizaje
quote The book tells many similar tales of white Americans (gabachos, he says, is the term Mexican-Americans use; gringo is now used only by gabachos) who ...
2012–04–27 Exhibition views from 'The Stuff That Matters'
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2012–04–26 Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
image ‘Girl with Beret’ (1951-52).Long before he was using paint as a blistering variant of flesh, the pictures had another sort of realism. The early ...
2012–04–25 Choccupy
quote To celebrate President Obama’s inauguration, Ben & Jerry’s released a flavor called Yes! Pecan. What about an Occupy-themed flavor? ...
2012–04–25 Raymond Roussel at his own expense
text Born in 1877 on the boulevard Malesherbes, a few doors down from the Prousts, Roussel grew up in obscene luxury (the family home contained both the ...
2012–04–19 Spring pallor
image Photograph by Charlie Rubin. Styled by Siri Thorson. Hair by Marcel Dagenais. Makeup by Candace Henderson. Model Britt Lower.
2012–04–12 Oh, guess that roll expired
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2012–04–11 Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub
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2012–04–10 Insta-gag
quote jsavino83. What’s funny to me is that, years ago, subjecting people to your photo albums was considered the ultimate imposition. An untold ...
2012–04–10 The line-loin problem
quote I thought this odd problem was caused by watching a bad TV show in which some of the characters have Southern accents. Nope. In wending my way through ...
2012–04–09 Gilberte Swann's letterhead
quote Better still, the tea-parties themselves to which Gilberte invited her friends, parties which for so long had seemed to me the most insurmountable of ...
2012–04–09 Progress-minded intellectuals. They are the tricoteuses of the dialectic. As each head falls, they reknit the sleeve of reasoning torn apart by the facts.
2012–04–07 (Media)
2012–04–05 Leftover mixes
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2012–04–05 Machine a écrire
image “Machine a Écrire” from the Spécimen Général, Deberny & Peignot, Paris, 1926
2012–03–31 Five years of Death By Audio, S 2nd St
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2012–03–29 Joost Swarte at Martel Gallery, Paris
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2012–03–29 Handmaiden to an idea
quote But Hollywood has a glut of young actresses who have more than that to offer—they have talent, and that talent isn’t being put to full use in ...
2012–03–28 Roy Lichtenstein, 'Bull I-VI' (1973)
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2012–03–28 Yellow print with stroke, 2
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2012–03–28 Yellow print with stroke, 1
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2012–03–26 The 'Cooley High' style (1975)
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2012–03–26 Simon Reynolds and son
quote We were playing chess and as he mused on his next Dad-destroying move, Kieran (12-and-a-half) sang a little made-up song. And then in the midst of this ...
2012–03–26 MLA rankings of American writers
quote Ordered by “the amount of scholarship.” Changes in position noted in brackets. Henry James (3,188 items) [+1] William Faulkner ...
2012–03–23 Christopher Reid, 'H. Vernon'
quote The butcher, tired of his bloody work has made a metaphysical joke:Five pigs’ heads on a marble counter leer lopsidedly out of the windowand scare ...
2012–03–23 A political definition of resentment
quote COMMENT 50 | Bruce Wilder 03.20.12 at 1:30 am What is “resentment”, if not the antonym of “admiration”? Certainly, it is ...
2012–03–23 T.J. Clark: Picasso in England
text Picasso, ‘The Source’ (1921); Henry Moore, ‘Reclining Figure’ (1936).Again the question is distance and literalness. At the root of modernism ...
2012–03–22 Tostilocos
quote Menu at Berta Nava’s shop in Escondido (Sandy Huffaker) “It’s everything at once,” Abraham Hernandez said as he jabbed a fork into a ...
2012–03–20 Pledge of allegiance
quote On Jan. 1, after a new state law targeting Mexican-American studies courses that are perceived as antiwhite was upheld, it became illegal to teach ...
2012–03–16 Waanaki, vintage clothing for children 0–6
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2012–03–16 Economics exceptionalism
quote My best analogy to economics exceptionalism is Freudianism in the 1950s: Back then, Freudian psychiatrists were on the top of the world. Not only ...
2012–03–16 The sky was blue. Except for sky you couldn’t see anything. Later, when I was moved to Camp Delta, I could look by the windows. The camp was ringed ...
2012–03–15 Lauren Bacall, 1944
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2012–03–04 “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism?” Walter Benjamin had asked some ten years prior. “Not what the ...
2012–02–24 The big contemporary questions
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2012–02–20 Wardrobe model's own
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2012–02–19 Jane Birkin in Elle France, 13 January 1975
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2012–02–17 Flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smartalecness
quote Robert Wright, The Secret of Jeremy Lin’s Success?, The Atlantic 2/14/2012:One of the most intriguing cultural contrasts between eastern and ...
2012–02–17 Cast Away, Greenpoint
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2012–02–16 David Graeber on jubilee
quote David Johnson: At the end of the book, you suggest one policy proposal of a sort, namely a jubilee, or a cancellation of all debts.David Graeber: Well, ...
2012–02–16 Richard Rorty on Saul Kripke, 2005
quote As I see it, Kripke’s lectures in 1970 aroused the interest they did not because people cared all that much about which truths should be called ...
2012–02–15 Fontana Modern Masters
image Page from Eye 74 (2009) depicting the covers of Fontana Modern Masters, introductory paperbacks on modern thinkers. Edited by Frank Kermode, the ...
2012–02–14 From Chris Benz's Fall 2012 collection
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2012–02–14 Cha siu bao, Valentine's Day at Jess Bakery (221 E 23rd St)
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2012–02–14 Lengua franca
quote One of the characteristic specialties of the Alamo City is the puffy taco. This consists of stewed, braised, or barbecued meats deposited in a tortilla ...
2012–02–13 Superstudio in Domus 479, 1969
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2012–02–10 Letter from James Joyce to his grandson, 1936
quote The lord mayor asked him how much money he wanted for making such a bridge. No money at all, said the devil, all I ask is that the first person who ...
2012–02–10 Interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan
quote JJS: Only from a distance. I really like to read everything that Kevin Baker writes about politics. He’s better known as a writer of historical ...
2012–02–09 Also from Robert Walser's 'Berlin Stories' (1907; t. Susan Bernofsky)
text Meanwhile you have rolled yourself a cigarette, say, and inserted it with great care between your well-practiced lips. With such an apparatus in your ...
2012–02–09 From Robert Walser's 'Berlin Stories' (1907; t. Susan Bernofsky)
text Another lager please! At Aschinger, you quickly adopt a familiar food-and-drink tone of voice; after a certain amount of time there, a person can’t ...
2012–02–08 Stills from 'Loves of a Blonde' (1965), d. Milos Forman
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2012–02–06 New Year menu at Congee Village, 100 Allen St
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2012–02–03 David Cronenberg's 'Total Recall'
quote I was going to do Total Recall. Like with a lot of Philip Dick stuff the concept of Total Recall was incredible. The beginning was great. It didn’t ...
2012–02–03 Mouth surfing
quote As to not understanding why some of us like to set ourselves on fire with peppers, I recall an anecdote from a book on peppers I read many years ago. ...
2012–02–02 Michael Wood reviews 'The Artist'
quote The plot line is a bit schematic, resolute in its avoidance of swerves and complications. A new movie star is born, an old star fades. Time passes, ...
2012–02–01 Portrait of the journalist Sylvia von Harden as Barbie (2009)
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2012–02–01 'Two major talents'
image This extraordinary book pairs two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the physician/novelist/filmmaker Michael ...
2012–01–26 Dole releases [chilling] critique of Gingrich
quote In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads, and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was ...
2012–01–25 Die Welt's all-Ellsworth Kelly issue
Die Welt newspaper, sports sectionDie Welt newspaper, detailDie Welt newspaper, Ellsworth Kelly imagery, Cornelius Tittel Culture EditorDie Welt ...
2012–01–24 William Gaddis self-portrait
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2012–01–20 The male tree squirrel takes twice as long, as the female, to groom itself. They are the cleanest animal in the rodent family. A squirrels teeth ...
2012–01–18 Parm's ice cream cake
image Pistachio-strawberry-chocolate ice cream cake with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles. Parm, 248 Mulberry St. New York, NY 10012.
2012–01–18 Upside-downstairs cake
quote “Downton Abbey” arrives wrapped in the shiny foil of cachet TV (PBS, WWI, tea and corsets!). But the British series, about the aristocratic Crawley ...
2012–01–15 Luc Sante on the 'Lost City,' NYC in the 70s
quote At that time much of Manhattan felt depopulated even in daylight. Aside from the high-intensity blocks of Midtown and the financial district, the place ...
2012–01–13 Ben Furgal, 'Study For My Glasses'
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2012–01–12 My little bucket of hair
quote A fascinating Language Log post about the writer Paul West who “emerged from [a] stroke with a near-total obliteration of language” and how ...
2012–01–11 The other Barack
quote Stanley Ann was self-sufficient and wilful. Her sympathetic biographer, Janny Scott, pictures her dreaming of escape from provincial boredom as she ...
2012–01–11 William James on careers
quote William James believed that the careers we might have chosen don’t matter very much: ‘Little by little, the habits, the knowledges, of the other ...
2012–01–10 Stairs, Patterson, NJ
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2012–01–09 David Bowie, 'Young Americans' (Dick Cavett Show, 1974)
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2012–01–06 Roky Erickson and The Explosives, 'White Faces' (1980)
video holy crap, does this bring back some memories. That was at the Soap Creek Saloon on North Lamar. It was the first time I ever saw Roky live. I remember ...
2012–01–06 Mummy as commodity
quote Michael Neill notes that mummy or mumia was used ‘throughout the Christian West’ well into the early modern period (LRB, 1 December 2011). In fact, ...
2012–01–06 David Graeber on bureaucratic technologies
quote Thursday, January 19, 7pm The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort ...
2012–01–04 The American Restaurant, Kansas City (1974)
image Warren Platner designed the American Restaurant in Kansas City in 1974 as part of a complex of modern buildings commissioned by the Hall family of ...
2012–01–04 Marianne Moore's Ft. Greene
quote She lived in Brooklyn at 260 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene; I lived in Hartley Hall on the Columbia campus in Manhattan. We didn’t talk on the ...
2012–01–04 There are not too many left
quote “It was not so unusual in those days to find a bar that was filled only with men,” Mr. Bourscheidt said. “It was quietly known in the gay world ...
2011–12–28 Pure cinnamon extract, 4oz.
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2011–12–28 Supermarket muscle shirt
image The following stores are represented: Key Food SmartSource C-Town Trade Fair Stop&Shop Food Dimensions Green Acres ...
2011–12–27 Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011
quote As a self-described “saddle-shoed girl a year out of Bennington,” Ms. Frankenthaler made her way into the burgeoning New York art world with ...
2011–12–25 Advertisements for things that were no longer made
quote From V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (1988) We lived, in Trinidad, among advertisements for things that were no longer made or, because of the ...
2011–12–23 Andy Warhol smells New York (1975)
quote When I’m walking around New York I’m always aware of the smells around me: the rubber mats in office buildings; upholstered seats in movie ...
2011–12–22 Wilfred Sheed, 1930–2011
image Photograph by Leonard Mccombe Sheed’s essays — misanthropic yet Nabokovian and light on their feet — embraced what he called “the whole crazy ...
2011–12–20 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil
quote Hedwig Kiesler, at the time she met Mayer, had just run away from her suffocating life as Mandl’s bride, fleeing with only her luggage and jewelry in ...
2011–12–17 Rihanna, "We Found Love" (d. Melina Matsoukas)
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2011–12–16 Girls of the Golden West #1
image Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray; 1954)
2011–12–14 Robert Brownjohn
text By the time the album came out the title had been changed to “Let It Bleed,” but Brownjohn’s design was so powerful that the band ...
2011–12–14 M. Wells Winter Carnival
quote 12:00—6:00 PM, Courtyard M. Wells will host a Winter Carnival in the MoMA PS1 courtyard, complete with a wood-oven duck cassoulet, slices of ...
2011–12–14 Enfilade
image Robert Polidori, Detail from A Portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess d’Orleans, Chateau de Versailles, 1991. Color photograph, 50 × ...
2011–12–12 Finnish Ruis
image Nordic Breads’ Finnish Ruis There’s more to rye bread than what you get at Carnegie Deli. Take, for instance, this Nordic newcomer. It’s a dark, ...
2011–12–12 Londongrad
quote In tsarist times Russian liberals based themselves in London; in Soviet times Russians who wanted uncensored news secretly tuned in to the World ...
2011–12–12 On Nicholson Baker's 'House of Holes'
quote There’s a complicated network of motifs: in addition to body-part removal and replacement, recurring images include mountain zebras, women laying ...
2011–12–12 Every counterfeit bag on Canal Street
image In the neighborhood near the 6 Decades shop dealers in counterfeit handbags do a brisk business. It’s illegal, of course, and the actual bags are ...
2011–12–09 Yuichi Yokoyama, 'Color Engineering'
image Yuichi Yokoyama, Color Engineering 17, 2005, ink, marker, and screentone on paper, 8 in. x 10 in.
2011–12–08 The career of Monte Hellman
text For his most significant outings as director, however, he enjoyed remarkable latitude: Corman trusted him to do what he wanted with the westerns and ...
2011–12–08 Feminism in the expanded field
quote ‘Pornography today is increasingly violent, body-punishing, degrading and woman-hating,’ it says on Object’s press release, which is ...
2011–12–07 Harry Morgan, 1915–2011
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2011–12–06 Tell me what you want, what you really, really want
image Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want by Jan Verwoert 2010. Berlin, Germany. Sternberg PressThe first compilation of writings by Jan ...
2011–12–06 All-cotton non-iron extra-slim fit end-on-end solid dress shirt
image Pure cotton broadcloth made with pucker-free seams and specially treated to remain virtually wrinkle free. Cornwall collar. Signature shirring at ...
2011–12–06 The Federal Standard Color Palette
quote The blue of rest stops (F.S. No. 15090), the brown of recreation signage (F.S. No. 10055), and acres of instructional green (F.S. No. 14115) sprang ...
2011–12–05 Battenberg cake
image For almond sponge 175g very soft butter 175g golden caster sugar 140g self-raising flour 50g ground almonds ½ tsp baking powder 3 medium eggs ½ tsp ...
2011–12–05 Barton's Bonbonniere, 1952
image Barton’s Bonbonniere, New York City. Architect, Victor Gruen. Graphics consultant Alvin Lustig.
2011–12–05 Illustrations by Tim Lahan
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2011–12–02 'Capital' No. 1, designed by Karl Gerstner (1962)
image “The square consits of 58×58 units. The fascinating thing here is that-with a constant intercolumnar space of 2 units-all of the different ...
2011–12–02 William Hazlitt on Edmund Burke (1819)
text Burke was an acute and accomplished man of letters – an ingenious political essayist … He had the power of throwing true or false weights ...
2011–12–02 Temporality and immigrant cuisine
quote I find immigrant populations to be a very interesting study in “authentic” food. You’ll find a lot of people calling “not ...
2011–12–01 Doo-wop dreaming
quote As a single, “Buick 59” b/w “The Letter,” on the DooTone label, might perfectly illustrate that old ...
2011–12–01 A park in need of a gate (September 2005)
quote “He was coming up on me a couple of times,” recalled Captain Henry, the owner of Island Towing and Salvage in Staten Island and a ...
2011–12–01 Tom Sachs: Judd × Ikea, 2009
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2011–12–01 'Back to the Future' (1995)
quote The high 60s cut deep: that is what all concerned meant to do. The attraction of those dark scenes in Blow-Up (1966) and Performance is underlined by ...
2011–11–29 Tati Cotliar in 'Stonefox' No. 1
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2011–11–29 Keehnan Konyha
quote Keehnan Konyha is an interior designer and writer based in New York. His work has featured in magazines such as Self Service, Apartamento, House & ...
2011–11–29 Summary of 'America's Sixty Families' (1937)
quote In the first two chapters, Ferdinand Lundberg develops his thesis and names the 60 richest American families, based on the tax reports for the years ...
2011–11–29 Green bean casserole
quote The green bean casserole was first created in 1955 by the Campbell Soup Company. Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the recipe while working as a ...
2011–11–28 Easy come, easy go
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2011–11–25 What I Didn’t Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook
text Another thing I did not write about quitting Facebook was that one of the great social pleasures in my life has been to leave gatherings or parties ...
2011–11–25 In Camberwell
text It is the religious missions and nail bars that seem to do best, especially the missions. You would not know, from the Camberwell Road, that this is a ...
2011–11–25 Icons by Susan Kare, 1983
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2011–11–21 Geoff Nunberg on blogging
quote It encourages me to add some snippets from the disorganized drawer of Thoughts I have on this topic, some of them from stuff I wrote but never ...
2011–11–21 Steve Bishop, 'Bathtub Curve' (2011)
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2011–11–21 Hundred highest-rated TV series, 1950–2000
quote Twilight Zone (US 1959, 9.4) The Sopranos (US 1999, 9.4) The Godfather: A Novel For Television (US 1977, 9.3) Freaks and Geeks (US 1999, ...
2011–11–21 Still from 'The Nanny,' S04E13 (1997)
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2011–11–21 In an uncollected letter to TS Eliot, Pasternak explores their shared aesthetic in ambitiously faulty English. Eliot’s art, he writes, like his ...
2011–11–19 How Ya Like Me Now?
image The other six outdoor artworks were installed without a hitch, but approval for Hammons’ painting to be erected on a DC city-owned parking lot ...
2011–11–18 Torrisi Italian Specialties reopens
quote In preparation for [the reopening of their restaurant], Carbone delved into what he calls “how it used to be” books, such as William ...
2011–11–18 Interview with Jacques Pépin
quote If you only have the technical knowledge, you won’t go that far, but you can still run the kitchen. There are small restaurants at, say, the ...
2011–11–16 The new fifty pound note
quote On the new fifty, Boulton and Watt, provided with what might as well be speech bubbles, seem to be talking to each other about their engine – ...
2011–11–16 Barbec's beer biscuits
image Barbec’s beer biscuits. We’ve lauded them before by way of Best of Dallas awards, but there’s just no way to truly give them their ...
2011–11–15 Boswell
quote We talked of memory, and its various modes. Johnson. “Memory will play strange tricks. One sometimes loses a single word. I once lost fugaces in ...
2011–11–14 Letter to the editors, 1964
quote To the Editors:As a student of military history I was pleased with John Phillips’ perceptive review of Ladislas Farago’s biography of that “quite ...
2011–11–14 Fred Herzog's early color street photographs
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2011–11–10 Nancy Pelosi's morning routine
text During her forty-five-minute walk, she plans her day, touches base with her staff, makes thank-you calls to donors, and keeps up with overnight ...
2011–11–09 George Orwell's defense of English cooking
text The essay, published in the Evening Standard in December 1945, dwells lovingly on kippers, Yorkshire pudding, bread sauce, Stilton, Oxford marmalade ...
2011–11–09 Joe Frazier obituary
text It was an overpowering modus operandi that led to versions of the heavyweight crown from 1968 to 1973. Frazier won 32 fights in all, 27 by knockouts, ...
2011–11–07 Moschino, 1989
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2011–11–07 The metaphysics of Yuichi Yokoyama
text Yokoyama’s second graphic novel, the recently translated Garden, also follows the logic of motion from beginning to end, of journey to destination. ...
2011–11–07 Poster by Martin Kippenberger, 1984
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2011–11–07 Rachel Comey
image Rachel Comey New York Since 2001Born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1973. Studied sculpture at University of Vermont; moved to New York and designed ...
2011–11–05 Sidelines at the marathon
text Mile 2 Following the graceful curve of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, runners practically coast into Bay Ridge, their introduction to Brooklyn. For ...
2011–10–25 Copiale cipher
text The original document, nicknamed the Copiale Cipher, was written in the late 18th century and found in the East Berlin Academy after the Cold War. ...
2011–10–09 Michel Houellebecq and character
text Moreover, ‘the simple play of historical forces’ made the post-individual approach increasingly realistic, as human personalities became ...
2011–10–09 Tokyo subway posters, 1976-1982
image The Seat Monopolizer (July 1976) Inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator,” this poster encourages passengers not to take up ...
2011–10–09 Customer review
quote Comments about Antennacraft® FMSS Omnidirectional FM Antenna from BUCK, power user in MUNICE, INDIANA:Owned several FM omnitennas. For the size ...
2011–10–08 Christopher R. Beha on the 'realist novel'
text Wallace didn’t believe that this self-consciousness could be put back in its box or neutralised by the prelapsarian gestures of a book like The ...
2011–10–08 Advertising photograph for Ladislav Sutnar China, c. 1930
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2011–10–08 Aileen's looking for a roommate
quote Date: 2011-10-26, 7:12PM EDT Reply to: hous-rq9vj-2670715078@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Looking for a mid to long term roommate ...
2011–10–08 'Guggenheim Color' by Fine Paints of Europe (of Woodstock, VT)
text Beyond the concept itself, which is obviously golden—no, wait, it’s conceptually golden precisely because of the art that was chosen, why ...
2011–10–08 Zooey Deschanel Sings the National Anthem
quote What is there to really say about Zooey D? She, through no act of her own, has convinced a generation of lonely men that she somehow means more than ...
2011–10–08 Malai chicken roll
image 4. Malai Chicken Roll at THELEwala — The explosion of places serving Indian urban street snacks has been a boon to the New York habit of walking ...
2011–10–08 What to do with pork tenderloin?
quote Maybe Pork Felix, my poor boy version of Steak Oscar? Pork medallions marinated, grilled, sliced as usual, topped with alternating spokes of snow crab ...
2011–10–08 Milca
image Milca (12 fl. oz., 99 cents) tastes much like cherry soda, but in the absence of any real fruit flavoring, that subtitle describes the contents as well ...
2011–10–07 Queen Victoria silk newspaper
image Apparently, to commemorate Her Majesty the Queen’s to the Isle of Jersey, The Jersey Herald printed copies of the September 11, 1846 edition of ...
2011–10–07 George Hamilton and Robert Mitchum in 'Home from the Hill' (d. Minnelli, 1960)
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2011–10–07 Glenn Ford and Ronny Howard in 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father' (d. Minnelli, 1963)
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2011–10–07 Tags
quote TAGS bellboy, buddy, crisps, fridge, guerilla, Hilton, Hong Kong, hotels, kiddie, minibar, peanuts, Robert Arnold, Siegas, St. Peter, Thai Airways, ...
2011–10–07 Wax on wax
quote There are hazards and difficulties in the DJ booth that must be overcome outside of the odd overdrunk attendee: lousy needles, broken or substandard ...
2011–10–07 Humphry Slocombe
quote Hidden happy hour at the ice cream parlor: “Jesus juice” sorbet (red wine and Coke) and “secret breakfast” ice cream (Jim Beam ...
2011–10–07 Cover, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (London, 1917)
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2011–10–07 "Yeah, that was me. I'm Steve Jobs."
quote From Andy Warhol’s Tuesday, 9 October 1984 diary entry. It’s Sean Lennon’s 9th birthday party. We went into Sean’s bedroom ...
2011–10–06 Rio de Janeiro: September 2011
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2011–10–06 i-D magazine, No. 1 (1980)
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2011–10–06 Postcard from the 49th New York Film Festival
text A modern story set amid the high-rise reflections and blinking lights of midtown Manhattan, Shame can be looked at as a companion piece to ...
2011–10–06 Looking: Elizabeth Bishop
A Bishop poem (watch it closely) goes on looking long after one thinks it should have looked away – from having seen enough, from having got or ...
2011–10–06 At the 9/11 Museum
The contributors to Memory Remains worry about an aestheticisation of the remains. There are other troublesome issues to mull over. Early on, the skin ...
2011–10–05 Putin's Rasputin
text In his spare time Surkov writes essays on conceptual art and lyrics for rock groups. He’s an aficionado of gangsta rap: there’s a picture ...
2011–10–05 The pharmacology of zombies
As long ago as 1938, Zora Hurston, a student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, suggested that there could be a material basis for the zombie ...
2011–10–05 Mexicatessens
image La Borinquena, in Oakland, Pepito’s, in Richmond, and Belmar and La Palma, in San Francisco, each self-identifies as a ...
2011–10–05 T.S. Eliot's juvenalia
quote I guess this must be the 1916 version of The Triumph of Bullshit: Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited If you consider my merits are small ...
2011–10–05 On Pauline Kael
The conceptions are basically kitsch… popular melodrama-Freud plus scandal, a comic strip about Hearst. Although these words are used by Pauline ...
2011–10–05 Little Rhody Poultry Fanciers
image Res. Champion JR bird—SC white leghorn bantam by Holly Schleicher
2011–10–05 The Grand Map
text Among Mein Herr’s many big ideas, none is as familiar to us as the Grand Map. We use it, or a version of it, on a daily basis. With Google Street ...
2011–10–05 Karma
quote KARMA is a bookstore, gallery and publisher specializing in artist publications, located in the West Village of New York City. In addition to its own ...
2011–10–05 Christine Kozlov, 'Information: No Theory' (1970)
image re/decomposition? history is the product of an exercise in remembering and forgetting. the looped reel-to-reel of christine kozlov’s ...
2011–10–04 “Vegetable instruments are another way of getting people to be fascinated,” says Gates, who paused briefly to play his carrot clarinet ...
2011–10–04 Props: Dorothy's Ruby Slippers (1939)
image If you’re sick of buying Loubs (and who isn’t?) and are sitting on a cool two million, a pair of Dorothy’s iconic ruby slippers will ...
2011–10–03 Illustration by James Gulliver Hancock
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2011–10–03 Archie, 8/19/11
image I’ve always kind of enjoyed the comics convention whereby flying droplets of sweat represent a character’s surprise/bafflement/disbelief ...
2011–10–03 Gordon Matta-Clark Postcard
image SOLD Hand cut 4 × 6 postcard. Unsigned. From the 1977 Image Bank Postcard Show.
2011–10–02 Peter Falk
quote Falk’s right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma; he wore a glass eye for most of his life.[11] Despite ...
2011–10–02 Saul Steinberg, Graph Paper Building (1950)
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2011–10–02 Black flower in the white house
quote As for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who was killed Thursday after a revolution, Condoleezza Rice adds details about his well-known “eerie ...
2011–10–02 (Media)
2011–10–01 Tom Ewing listens to 'Nevermind' for the first time
quote We crave surprise: could there possibly be any left in Nevermind? A little, as it turned out. When I played it — finally! — what jumped out ...
2011–10–01 Caleb Crain on 'Planet of the Apes,' road rage
quote Being intelligent inside an ape is like being human inside a car. You’re saddled with a prognathous mask for a face. You’re incapable of ...
2011–10–01 "Person wearing ceremonial mask of the Nuhlimahla during...
image “Person wearing ceremonial mask of the Nuhlimahla during the during the Winter Dance ceremony. These characters impersonated fools and were noted ...
2011–10–01 '160 km' at Kid Yellin
text Elaine Cameron-Weir, 100 (steel), 2011, rolling tobacco, 96 × 5 × 5 in. Kid Yellin is gigantic, and the show is sparsely populated, so there ...
2011–09–30 Artaud-Mania
text Until then, the twenty-two-year-old Fateman hadn't confessed much in her work; her earlier zines (including the series Snarla, cowritten in the early ...
2011–09–30 Brian Ulrich, 'Six Flags Mall, 2009'
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2011–09–30 Shaggy dog
quote The commonly believed archetype of the shaggy dog story is a story that concerns a shaggy dog. The story builds up, repeatedly emphasizing how shaggy ...
2011–09–30 Dwight Garner: food lit
quote But the greatest food novel ever written, hands down, is ‘‘The Belly of Paris,’‘ by Emile Zola, published in 1873. Anthony ...
2011–09–30 (Media)
2011–09–09 David Graeber on the barter myth
text Even when strangers met and barter did ensue, people often had a lot more on their minds than getting the largest possible number of arrowheads in ...
2011–09–09 Chuck Eddy, King of the Contrarians
quote Chuck Klosterman writes in the foreword to Chuck Eddy’s Rock and Roll, “[T]he music he likes makes him impossible to understand. If you ...
2011–09–09 Harold Bloom as Kurtz
text Before we get into this any further, I should mention that Bloom and I were once employed by the same academic department. I hasten to add, lest there ...
2011–09–09 Israeli falafel
quote When the Israeli tent protests began, some of the movement’s fiercest critics — outside the Israeli government — were progressive ...
2011–09–09 Flying Nun celebrates 30 years
quote While, it wouldn’t be a party without live music, we also have a bunch of new releases and re-releases out soon on CD, digitally and Vinyl. Plus ...
2011–09–09 Fugitive from 1972 hijacking caught
image James Kerlin (AP) In 1972, dressed as a priest, George Wright was among hijackers who accepted ransom in Miami from an agent in a swimsuit.
2011–09–09 Netflix: The Killing
quote With the precision of a watchmaker, “The Killing” lays out each component of its ingenious racetrack heist in meticulous detail. Even in ...
2011–09–08 Toody Cole, ca. 1989
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2011–09–08 Cornish Pasty
image The Cornish pasty (pronounced “pah-stee”) is one of the glories of British cooking, an oblong hand-pie with a flaky crust, enfolding cubed ...
2011–09–08 Bar, Glendale, NY
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2011–09–08 'Mens Rea' Legal Protection Erodes in U.S. as Federal Criminal Code Expands
text As a result, what once might have been considered simply a mistake is now sometimes punishable by jail time. When the police came to Wade ...
2011–09–07 The Terrence Malick of rockers
quote You’ve said in interviews that you’re finding the process of writing songs increasingly mysterious. Can you elaborate on that? I might ...
2011–09–07 Illustration, Marie Claire (1969)
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2011–09–07 Barney Rosset and the history of Grove Press
text Steven Brower and John Gall have called the collaboration between Rosset and Kuhlman, which lasted for twenty years, “a marriage of imagery and ...
2011–09–07 On Ernest Gellner's 'Nations and Nationalism'
text Pre-modern socities which possess agriculture and literacy, the inhabitants of what Gellner sometimes calls “Agraria,” were economically ...
2011–09–06 Gerhard Richter Painting
image Gerhard Richter Painting (dir. Corinna Belz, 2011)
2011–09–05 T206 Honus Wagner
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2011–09–05 Edward Gorey's envelopes
image Equally fascinating is the unlikely story of how Gorey and Neumeyer met in the first place — a story involving a hospital waiting room, a ...
2011–09–04 The Weekender
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2011–09–04 CBS Didot
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2011–09–04 Rosamond Bernier's 'L'oeil'
image The first cover of my magazine L’OEIL, which appeared January 15, 1955, was a detail of Fernand Leger’s La Grande Parade. We couldn’t ...
2011–09–04 Comment
quote >Glen Tomkins 09.14.11 at 6:35 pmComment 36 said:You can at least make a case that the miseries associated with enclosure and the creation of the ...
2011–09–04 Nick Lowe wearing my old glasses
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2011–09–04 Zhen Zhen Porridge
image The queue shapes up in early morning and lasts through lunch. Zhen Zhen’s smooth-textured rice porridge comes dressed with chopped spring onions, ...
2011–09–04 At Kuai Le Hand Pull Noodles Restaurant, New York 2011
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2011–09–04 'Cleanup Time,' February 2000
text XTC Apple Venus Volume 1 (TVT) Since their outtakes weren’t even rags or bones and their idea of a class pop arranger was the same as Elton ...
2011–09–03 'Live at the Barbeque'
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2011–09–03 University of Houston Libraries acquires DJ Screw's records collection
quote The majority of this collection was donated by DJ Screw’s father, Robert Earl Davis Sr., with additional support from the John and Rebecca Moores ...
2011–09–03 Yve-Alain Bois on Martin Barre
At the time there were few artists among his Parisian group (the JEP) to make such a leap—in fact, Barre instantly lost his support system, the ...
2011–09–02 Adam Phillips on Byron
Though Shelley had long been an admirer of Byron’s poetry, their meeting that summer was a consequence of Byron’s previous, rather ...
2011–09–02 Website for Built by Wendy, 2011
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2011–09–02 Our 11 Best Places to Eat in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
text < 10. Ba Xuyen – The beloved Vietnamese sandwich shop is open only from 7:30am till 6:30pm, but I’ve known people to hurry home from ...
2011–09–02 Lawyer joke
quote Not long after the Soviets launched Sputnik 1, in 1957, New York City’s Department of Education concluded that one impediment to keeping up with ...
2011–09–02 A Global Portrait of Red Tape
image To preserve a maximum degree of authenticity, he kept the visits unannounced, preventing the subjects from tidying up for the interview. India, Bihar, ...
2011–09–01 Hollywood in the Fifties
text [Louis Menand on Dwight Macdonald:] Before 1962, an educated cultural consumer might understandably have concluded that there was not much in the world ...
2011–09–01 Coming up short
quote I make this ‘covering’ [in short selling] sound routine, but it isn’t, and can go horribly wrong – wherein lies much of the ...
2011–09–01 Menu at Hoang Dat, San Francisco
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2011–09–01 On the serve
quote Althea Gibson Dwight Davis, a St. Louis native who went on to found the Davis Cup, added a new dimension to the serve in the 1890s, using heavy ...
2011–09–01 Jagger
Joking around at the R.C.A. studios in Los Angeles in 1965.
2011–08–31 Document: T. S. Eliot to Virginia Woolf
image 38 Burleigh Mansions, St Martins Lane, London W.C.2. 27 August 1924 My dear Virginia, Forgive the unconscionable delay in answering your charming ...
2011–08–31 Comedian Bill Cosby Shooting Against His Press Agent, Joe Sutton
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2011–08–31 A Blonde in Love (1965)
image Woodcut poster for A Blonde in Love by Peter Strausfeld.
2011–08–09 Creeper Ohio 'Double Dwa'
quote fairly early on, mike rep jumped on the creeper bandwagon and this tape surfaced soon after. contains two kickass 45s ("new hit single" and ...
2011–08–09 In Hackney
text Someone smashed their way into the Texaco garage on the Junction of Mare Street and Well Street. Boys staggered out with boxes of sandwiches and ...
2011–08–09 Rainer often likened his film oeuvre to a house he was
quote Rainer often likened his film oeuvre to a house he was building. He said of his films: “Some of them are windows and others are doors, and others ...
2011–08–08 Robin Robertson: 'Strindberg in London' (2005)
quote My new wife fills the bed, fills every room, tells me it will all be fine. Dragged through other people’s lives, pursued through my own. What ...
2011–08–08 (Media)
2011–08–08 People taking naps with stuff
image A vendor naps beside packages of cabbages at a food market in Suining, China.
2011–08–07 Cover of Oswald Spengler's 'Decline of the West,' Vol II. Published by C.H. Beck, Munich, 1922
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2011–08–07 Lunch with RuPaul
text Out of drag, Mr. Charles (Ru to his friends) seems to have the same effect on everyone who meets him. Which is to say you can’t stop grinning. He ...
2011–08–06 Still from 'Kansas City Confidential' (1952)
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2011–08–06 The Times film critics take on Keanu
quote Q. Is Keanu Reeves a Good Bad Actor or a Bad Good Actor? ROBERT SCHROKO DARGIS Who cares? He’s Keanu Reeves, dude, and an excellent movie star, ...
2011–08–06 RELI 157/311--Religion and Hip Hop, at Rice
quote Religion and Hip Hop. Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and Bernard “Bun ...
2011–08–06 from the New York Times, 15 August 2011
quote …Fueled by the free espresso offered by pharmaceutical companies hawking their wares, scientists at the Orlando meeting moved from session to ...
2011–08–05 Clippings
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2011–08–05 Shirley Braha's Weird Vibes
quote I guess it was nice seeing Matt Pinfield‘s familiar face again, at that epicenter of NYC alt rock Arlene Grocery, but… the show felt safe, ...
2011–08–05 Oh look it's Kate Sheil
image A scene from Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard’s Autoerotic. [Photo: IFC Midnight]
2011–08–05 “When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly,” Umberto Eco has written of Casablanca, “we plumb Homeric profundity. Two cliches ...
2011–08–05 'A Book of Secrets' by Michael Holroyd
text There’s a small, nearly perfect comic moment not far into Michael Holroyd’s new book, “A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, ...
2011–08–05 Harou Nakajima in (part of) the original '54 Godzilla suit
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2011–08–04 Website of Tauba Auerbach
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2011–08–04 Archive of Peter Lindbergh editorials, 1979-2011
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2011–08–04 Jean Patchett by Irving Penn (Vogue, May 1951)
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2011–08–03 Obama and the dog
quote “There was a dog?” Obama interrupted. James nodded and said that Cairo was in an adjoining room, muzzled, at the request of the Secret ...
2011–08–02 Okra everywhere
Mr. Osei saw Elizabeth Otolizz for the first time when she stopped to eat in his restaurant in the late 1980s and he pointed out that she had spilled ...
2011–08–02 Michael Wood on 'Tree of Life'
text Let’s get the terrible stuff out of the way first. Characters in the movie keep wondering where God is and why he isn’t doing more to help ...
2011–08–02 More on Simon Reynolds
quote Jacques Attali: “Music is a herald, for change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.” That music has stopped changing, ...
2011–08–02 Nickelodeon's Nineties Nostalgia Block
quote Ratings are in for Monday night’s first broadcast of the cabler’s new late-night block of late-century Nick sitcoms (All That, Clarissa ...
2011–08–02 A list of words for which the first OED quotation is from 1925
quote a list of words for which the first OED quotation is from 1925: incl. arachnophobia, chewy, Comintern, cuppa, electron volt, enhat (i.e. provide with a ...
2011–08–02 Cold Sesame Noodles
quote Serves 4 as a main or 6 as an appetizer 12 ounces dried spaghetti or Chinese egg noodles 2 tablespoons peanut oil 2 teaspoons minced garlic 2 ...
2011–08–02 Cold Noodles with Sesame Sauce
quote The noodles were, in fact, just one among many other more ambitious and totally exotic Szechuan delights that Shorty would no doubt have preferred to ...
2011–08–01 What Riggins wants
text Riggins is a man of few words, but he says “Texas, Forever” a lot. It’s a fraternal drunken toast around a dwindling bonfire, a ...
2011–08–01 Picasso: The Mediterranean Years --
image Bikini, 1961
2011–08–01 The City Closes Motorino's Williamsburg Location Permanently
The Department of Buildings just shut down Mathieu Palombino’s Motorino, which has sat at 319 Graham Avenue for two and a half years. Last fall, ...
2011–08–01 Ed Ruscha and Street View
text Car as medium … rotating motorized camera … a series of contiguous horizontal images of buildings and the street on which they are situated ...
2011–07–31 "It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange"
quote As the summer of writing papers yields to the fall of trying to find work, one is naturally much troubled by introspection — which, in my case, ...
2011–07–31 National Portrait Gallery--2
© estate of Powys Evans Harry Gordon Selfridgeby Powys Evans ink and watercolour, 1924 20 in. x 14 in. (507 mm x 356 mm) Purchased, 1985 NPG 5806
2011–07–31 National Portrait Gallery--1
© National Portrait Gallery, London Winifred Radfordby Meredith Frampton oil on canvas, 1921 35 1/8 × 29 3/8 in. (892 × 746 ...
2011–07–31 100 Dishes To Eat Now--Dish No. 58: Shorty Tang's Cold Sesame Noodles
image Birthed in the 1970s and now available for purchase at Smorgasburg, Shorty Tang’s cold sesame noodles are the stuff of both legend and ...
2011–07–31 Quicksilver (1986): I Want to Ride My Bicycle.
image There’s no explanation of why he goes from stockbroker to bike messenger, as apparently these are the only two jobs available in the bay. How ...
2011–07–09 NASA Graphic Standards Manual -- 1976
As some of you already know, I’m a little obsessed with finding vintage design materials, especially graphics manuals like this one for the 1976 ...
2011–07–09 Unicode Character 'SLICE OF PIZZA' (U+1F355)
image Unicode Data Name SLICE OF PIZZA Block Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs Category Symbol, Other [So] Combine 0 BIDI Other Neutrals [ON] ...
2011–07–08 The Broccoli, Egg, and Cheese at No. 7 Sub
image The combination of Thai basil pesto and ketchup wouldn’t seem to be the most auspicious accompaniment to egg-and-cheese breakfast sandwich, but ...
2011–07–08 Not just one of your holiday games
quote French law requires that a purebred dog or cat – that is, an animal belonging to one of the breeds listed in the Livre des origines francais or ...
2011–07–07 The Camoufleurs
image Modern camouflage began in 1915, when, after a crushing defeat by the Germans, the French army abandoned their stylish white gloves and red pantaloons ...
2011–07–07 About the London Review of Breakfasts
quote We love going out for breakfast. We love the hungry hours of anticipation before we decide on a venue. We love the splendid taste of expertly cooked, ...
2011–07–07 Duke Ellington all over the world
quote From a 1944 interview I have special places marked for special dishes. In Taunton, Massachusetts, you can get the best chicken stew in the United ...
2011–07–06 The Evergreen Branch
text On the fabric of every southwest-northeast street of the Bushwick grid, a subtle disjoint somewhere between Irving and Wyckoff Avenues marks the scar ...
2011–07–06 Kenji Alt's sliders
Kenji’s Sliders: An all-American mashup of three burgers: In-N-Out from the West Coast, Telway from Detroit, and White Manna from Jersey.
2011–07–06 Cold War Colossus
image Telephone ExchangeP.A Systems valve amplifierThe BBC BroadcastPrime Ministers BathroomWelcome to The mighty Burlington Bunker at Corsham in ...
2011–07–06 Christine Keeler, 1963. Photograph by Lewis Morley.
image Christine Keeler 1963, Lewis Morley (Australian, born 1925), Gelatin-silver print The urban myth that the photograph of Christine Keeler astride an ...
2011–07–06 Permutations in colour. Exploring the dramatic possibilities and problems of overprinting
text Below: Spread with colour configurations When I came to write one of the briefs for the new module, I returned to Dramatic color by overprinting for ...
2011–07–05 Classic New York Magazine Art-Dealer Profiles
image Larry Gagosian, in front of a painting by Mark Rothko, New York, September 2, 1991. Photo: James Hamilton Klaus Kertess and an early Ralph Humphrey, ...
2011–07–05 Gertrude Stein on Paris
Here’s Gertrude Stein, from her 1940 book “Paris France,” on the subject of why Paris was the place where her artistic revolution and ...
2011–07–05 Food stamps
quote Food stamps also help stimulate the economy more than other forms of government spending, points out Jim Weill of Food Research and Action Centre, a ...
2011–07–05 Richard Serra's drawings at the Met
text At the start of Richard Serra Drawing (until 28 August) there are four performance videos from 1968. It is a witty bit of curating, in that each work, ...
2011–07–05 More in the middle
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2011–07–04 The Church of Scientology building in Los Angeles. Paul Mounce.
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2011–07–04 The 27 Club
quote 2. Dave Alexander Bassist for legendary punk band the Stooges. Died of pulmonary edema (associated with alcohol) on February 10, 1975. 3. Janis ...
2011–07–04 Headline
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2011–07–03 Marimekko. Finland, 1962.
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2011–07–03 Andy Warhol's shoes
image “Dover Street Market are excited to welcome Ferragamo Men’s shoes to the store, with the limited edition Ferragamo Creations shoe. The ...
2011–07–02 World on a Wire
text The career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the wonders of the modern cinema—of the entire history of cinema—but it would be hard to ...
2011–07–01 Editorial illustration by Chang Park
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2011–07–01 Marching powder
quote In “An Anatomy of Addiction” Dr. Markel braids [Sigmund Freud and William Stewart Halsted]‘s stories intricately, intelligently and ...
2011–07–01 Snacks--Wendy MacNaughton
image When I sit down to work, I keep a small bowl of garlic croutons on my desk. These are little rewards for good ideas and strong lines, Pavlovian pellets ...
2011–07–01 Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi in a scene from 'Summertime', 1955
image I love how uncomfortable Katherine Hepburn always looks when forced to gaze lovingly into some co-star’s eyes. It really does not become her. ...
2011–07–01 Notorious B.I.G., freestyle age 17
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2011–06–30 Sainsbury's packaging design, ca. early 70s
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2011–06–30 Edward B. Hittleman Brewery
image The Hittleman name was added to the facade only after other figures had made their mark. Edward Hittleman bought this building in the 1920s and renamed ...
2011–06–09 Sylvia Plath on the beach
image Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Cantor, Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, 1952. Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
2011–06–09 The Smiling Shaw Machine
quote The Smiling Shaw Machine Dreamed 1894/4/19 by William Butler Yeats THAT DAY …I listened to [the opening performance of George Bernard ...
2011–06–08 Town Musicians of Bremen
image A bronze statue by Gerhard Marcks depicting the Bremen Town Musicians located in Bremen, Germany. The statue was erected in 1953. Note the front hooves ...
2011–06–08 Florence Fabricant at Txantxangorri
quote If you do not have an earthenware casserole, you can make the whole thing, from stovetop to oven, in enameled cast iron. Rice With Rabbit Adapted ...
2011–06–08 … the word ‘crown’ should always be either at the beginning or the end of its line, since only there can it enact itself; unlike, ...
2011–06–08 Wolfgang Tillmans at Andrea Rosen
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2011–06–07 'Jerusalem-style bagels'
image Kingsway Bakery 540 Kings Highway, Brooklyn NY 11223 (map) 718-382-1100
2011–06–07 Jonathan Rosenbaum on self-hatred
quote Although it didn’t impress me too much when I first saw it, The King of Comedy has gradually come to seem the most important and resonant of ...
2011–06–07 Tactile values & significant form
text The donnee of his work was that the value of painting lay in its ability to enhance self-consciousness, by means of intense increments of ...
2011–06–07 Lil Wayne at Summer Jam 2011
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2011–06–07 Bernard Berenson
text Bernard Berenson. I Tatti, Florence, 1952. “If small, lithe tigers could speak, they would have the voice and intelligence of this feline Pole. ...
2011–06–07 Scott McLemee on 'Playboy'
text Well, sure — who can read “Dover Beach” without picturing naked Bunnies frolicking in the waves? Ward strives manfully to render his ...
2011–06–07 Excerpt from Marian Engel's 'Bear,' illustrated by Joe Ollmann for Canadian Notes and Queries
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2011–06–07 6/3 lemon meringue pie
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2011–06–07 6/3 peach strawberry pie
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2011–06–07 6/3 blueberry nectarine pie
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2011–06–07 6/3 rhubarb pie
6/3 rhubarb pie
2011–06–06 Marcia Angell on psychoactive drugs
text Some brief—and necessarily quite simplified—background: the brain contains billions of nerve cells, called neurons, arrayed in immensely ...
2011–06–06 My Teenage Stride
image My Teenage Stride Primavera Sound 2011 Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, Espana 25.0511A very very pleasent surprise.
2011–06–06 Memphis Milano Silk Tie by GJ
image Memphis Milano Silk Tie by GJ SowdenYes, the Memphis Design movement also included ties., and this is one of the best, designed by George J. Sowden. ...
2011–06–06 Select 1977 RECORDS reissues, 2000-2010
quote 1977-S073 radio city/love and a picture 7" 1977-S072 the retreads/would you listen girl 7" 1977-S069 perfectors/YT502951D 7" 1977-S068 the ...
2011–06–06 AFI's '50 Legends'
quote Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars is a list of the top 50 greatest screen legends of American cinema, 25 ...
2011–06–05 Roz Chast's pysanka eggs
image GEHR: You’ve adapted the Ukrainian pysanka egg-decorating tradition to your own style by painting Chast-ian characters on them. How do you make ...
2011–06–05 Samosa sandwich
image The samosa sandwich ($5): a samosa gets split in half, then smooshed into a toasted bun that’s been painted green with mint chutney and sprinkled ...
2011–06–05 John Burnside, 'I put a spell on you'
text I was only three when we moved to Blackburn Drive but it wasn’t long before I grasped that we were ‘coming up’ in the world. By the ...
2011–06–05 DJ Quik at the Knitting Factory
quote … This, though, was something different: a bare-bones showcase for Quik, in a warm-up jacket and jeans, his hair pulled tight into thin cornrows ...
2011–06–05 A Who's Who of the Jazz Age #4
image Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
2011–06–05 A Talk with Peter Falk
quote In memory of Peter Falk, the French newspaper Liberation has posted an interview with the actor by Marie Colmant that first ran there in 1996, and ...
2011–06–04 Justin Mitchell on Ishmael Reed's 'Juice'
text Reed’s last few novels have been a lot heavier on the “six o’clock news” side of things. Whereas his earlier fiction—with ...
2011–06–04 The F.B.I.’s Most Wanted List
quote With the death of Osama bin Laden in May and the arrest of James (Whitey) Bulger on Wednesday night in California, there are only eight fugitives now ...
2011–06–03 Banana honey cone from Miss Softee
image Dave Cook at Midtown Lunch fifth birthday party, New York.
2011–06–03 archive1969
image Richard Hamilton, British, born 1922, Swingeing London 67 ©. 1968-69, Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 67.3 × 85.1 cm, ...
2011–06–03 Christian Schwartz's Neue Haas Grotesk
quote Top: Neue Helvetica 95 Black; Bottom: Neue Haas Grotesk 95 Black Neue Haas Grotesk underwent its first radical transformation when it was refitted to ...
2011–06–03 H.G. Wells and Rebecca West
quote By the early 20th century Wells was one of the most fashionable writers in Britain. He rode a bicycle. He looked forward to the formation of a ...
2011–06–03 Sportonomics
text So what causes it? First, Moskowitz and Wertheim rule out the conventional explanations, starting with the support of the home fans. How do you isolate ...
2011–06–02 Mike Goldby: 'The Body' (2010)
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2011–06–02 Obama Was Busy
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2011–06–02 Stills from 'Klute' (d. Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
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2011–06–02 Miles Davis: selections from the fourth blindfold test (Down Beat, 1968)
quote 3. Archie Shepp The Funeral (Archie Shepp in Europe, Delmark, recorded 1963) Don Cherry, cornet; John Tchicai, alto saxophone; Shepp, tenor ...
2011–06–02 Miles Davis: from the third blindfold test (Down Beat, June 1964)
quote 7. Eric Dolphy Mary Ann (from Far Cry, New Jazz). Booker Little, trumpet; Dolphy, composer, alto saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano. That’s got ...
2011–06–01 S. pyogenes bacteria at 900x magnification.
S. pyogenes bacteria at 900x magnification.
2011–06–01 'The Wedding March' (1928): user review
text History paints Erich Von Stroheim as the great misunderstood genius, the `footage fetishist' whose grandiose films were too ahead of their time ...
2011–06–01 Cahiers du cinema, 12 best films of all-time from 1958
quote In 1957, in preparation for an event at the Brussels World Fair of 1958 called the “Confrontation of the Best Films in the World”, the ...
2011–06–01 RuPaul at The Jane Hotel (8 June 1986)
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2011–06–01 Mel Bochner: "The Beach Boys--'100%'," Arts Magazine (March 1967)
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2011–06–01 Tower
image Michael Craig-Martin, “Tower” (1981). 61.0 × 91.5 cm. Hand applied black crepe tape on drafting film.
2011–06–01 Molly Fischer on Russian Samovar
quote “Mazel Tov!” said Philip Roth to Roman when he arrived around eight-thirty, in the middle of several Russian speeches. Roman had already ...
2011–06–01 Richard Nixon's last meal at the White House, 1974
image Pineapple slices with a scoop of cottage cheese.
2011–06–01 The Tuneless Cole Porter Musical
quote John Simon’s Esquire review called it “maybe the worst movie musical of this—or any decade”: “Sitting through this movie ...
2011–06–01 What They Ate
quote James Baldwin (1924-1987) Though often associated with Greenwich Village and Paris, novelist and civil rights activist James Baldwin grew up in Harlem. ...
2011–05–31 'Lonely Birthday,' Vogue Girl Korea (March 2006). Photographer: Louis Park, model: Sophie Buxton.
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2011–05–31 On special display at the Frick
image Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516). “St. Francis in the Desert” (detail). c. 1480. Oil and tempera on poplar panel. 49 in. x 55 7/8 in.
2011–05–31 Marcel Bloodthaer's sister's dress
quote The Museum of Modern Art is on a mission to become a leader in American and European Conceptual art from the 1960s and ’70s. This week it ...
2011–05–31 Breakfast Martini
quote Breakfast Martini at Fort Defiance In the morning, Fort Defiance serves the classic Breakfast Martini, developed by illustrious British bartender ...
2011–05–31 Spectacle Theatre, Screen Slate: Can's "Soundtracks"
video Trailer for Roland Klick’s DEADLOCK (1971) Playing at The Spectacle Theater Tuesday, June 7, 9:30pm Part of Screen Slate Presents: Can’s ...
2011–05–31 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 September 2010
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2011–05–09 Domus redesign by Salottobuono, 2011
image Spreads from the April issue of Domus
2011–05–09 Kinda like us
quote Consider the “special collector’s issue” of the kids’ magazine Disney Adventures devoted to “Pocahontas: The Movie, The ...
2011–05–09 Variations of chief
image A chief combined with a pale. A chief bearing charges (two scallops). A chief indented. A chief wavy. Rare example of a ...
2011–05–09 Rule of tincture
text The first rule of heraldic design is the rule of tincture: metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour (Humphrey Llwyd, 1568). This means ...
2011–05–09 Biscione
image The Biscione (Italian for 'large grass snake'), also known as the Vipera ('viper' or in Milanese as the Bissa), is a heraldic charge showing in Argent ...
2011–05–09 NAVSPECWARDEVGRU
quote In 1987, a new unit was formed, given the official title of “Naval Special Warfare Development Group” (abbreviated to NAVSPECWARDEVGRU, or ...
2011–05–09 New Sandwich at Prosperity Dumpling
image Now the sandwich roster at Prosperity is expanding. Sunday morning, I brunched on one of the new items — a sesame-bread sandwich featuring a ...
2011–05–08 Three Kay Ryan springs
quote “Spring,” from the 26 May 2001 New Republic: It would be good to shrug out of winter as cicadas do: look: a crisp freestanding you ...
2011–05–08 Lavvi Ebbel, 'Coffee Koffie' (1983)
quote Lavvi Ebbel – Kiss Me Kate Label: Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Ariola Benelux Catalog#: TWI 172, 205.488 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: ...
2011–05–08 Aram Saroyan, 'Coffee Coffee' (1967)
image Aram SaroyanCoffee CoffeeNew York: 0 to 9 Books, 1967. 4to.; illustrated throughout in black and white; staple bound printed wrappers; some wear to ...
2011–05–08 The Grilling Hot Line Center
quote Most of the time, Ms. Olsen said, the answer is an easy one. People sometimes simply forget to turn up heat. “You’ll tell the man the ...
2011–05–07 From 'Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana' (1957) by Carlo Emilio Gadda (t. William Weaver)
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2011–05–07 Tony Chachere's Famous Creole Seasoning
image Before and after.
2011–05–07 Department of Defense, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Image
2011–05–07 Kelefa Sanneh on reality TV
text Because Pozner isn’t really interested in viewers, she doesn’t have much to say about why they reject some reality shows while embracing ...
2011–05–07 Pelican
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2011–05–07 Malick's 'Tree of Life'
quote As Mr. Malick’s films grow increasingly allusive and amorphous, he seems more than ever to find them in the editing. “Our focus was to make ...
2011–05–07 ArtCash
ArtCash by Rauschenberg (top) and Tom Gormley, via nymagp>Whatever else it was, Billy Kluver, Bob Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman's Experiments ...
2011–05–07 From Vogue Italia, Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1966
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2011–05–07 PUEBLA CELEBRATION
quote 05.28.2011 – 05.28.2011 Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center Puebla Celebration Saturday, May 28, 2011 2-5pm Clemente Soto Velez ...
2011–05–06 This is the girl ('Mulholland Drive,' d. David Lynch, 2001)
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2011–05–06 From Gracie Nesin 'Secrets in Yr Phone' (2011)
video --INDEX--Alec Baldwin in Working Girl, 1988Peabody, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts (2003)nuns and other congregants pray the rosary, Our Lady of ...
2011–05–06 Artist at work
image Mladen Stilinovic, Artist at Work 5 (1978)
2011–05–06 Select Rich Kroneiss reviews from Terminal Boredom #28, Winter 2010
quote Liquor Store “Free Pizza” 7” The much-anticipated debut from Jersey no-counts Liquor Store. What a novel idea…dumbasses ...
2011–05–06 Leda me not into temptation
image Swan Mirror at Happy Ending, (302 Broome St., nr. Forsyth St.; 212-334-9676)
2011–05–06 Whit Stillman's 'Damsels In Distress'
quote NEW YORK, NY (March 29, 2011)—Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Oscar nominated Whit Stillman’s latest film ...
2011–05–06 'Somewhere to Disappear,' a film with Alec Soth
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2011–05–06 Alfred Kazin's Journals
quote Journal keeping, for Kazin, was a ritual. He wrote regularly in his for more than half a century, and it ultimately ran to more than 7,000 pages. ...
2011–05–06 Dieppa Restrepo: Alternate colors
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2011–05–06 BABYCAKES
quote RUSCHA, Ed. Babycakes. New York: Multiples Inc., 1970. 12mo.; illustrated throughout in black and white; hole punch bound with pink ribbon; green ...
2011–05–05 Masa messiah
quote Tamales and masa, their cornmeal base, may not have the street cred of drugs, but Chingo Bling has tried to do for them what Tony Montana did for ...
2011–05–05 Nukes
quote A key part of the Nazis’ nuclear programme was the heavy water production facility at the Norsk Hydro fertiliser plant near Rjukan in the wilds ...
2011–05–05 New restaurants in Long Island City
quote Right next to Canz is a distinctly odd storefront place called Queens Comfort. The chef, Casey Sullivan, a recent arrival from Georgia via Kansas City ...
2011–05–04 God Save McQueen
text Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s memorial tribute to the British fashion designer who died by his own hand in ...
2011–05–04 "My Manticore"
quote We named him Manticore, after the Robertson Davies novel (he was, after all, Canadian) and generally assumed he would be a whimsical addition to the ...
2011–05–04 'Cheers' title cards (d. Bruce Bryant, James Castro; 1982)
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2011–05–04 Weight, Weight, Don't Tell Me
text And so it was that at some point a couple of years later, when I met him at a party, I asked him what he’d meant. Of course, he didn’t ...
2011–05–03 Common courtesies
quote Royal occasions offer the pleasure of mass atavism, including the revival of antediluvian words and attitudes. As journalists and newsreaders ...
2011–05–03 "A black Irish beer that disappears in the course of the creative process"
quote Brodsky describes the daily routines of Auden, with whom he briefly stayed in Austria (I assume in Kirchstetten though the article doesn’t ...
2011–05–03 T-shirt, July 1969
image “As a teenager in New York I thought my friends and I were pretty cool. The moon landing kept our attitudes in check by putting us in touch with ...
2011–05–03 List of movies
quote Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000 Essential Films (chronological order)
2011–05–03 Nigel Peake's Paris
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2011–05–03 Norman Mailer's house, 134 Columbia Heights
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2011–05–03 Donald Justice on Philip Larkin (1995)
quote It has been claimed for Larkin that he was never sentimental, never brutal. But the truth is that I find him both sentimental and brutal, though in ...
2011–05–03 Emily Fragos on Emily Dickinson's Letters
quote Did Higginson’s corrective responses to her poems play a role in her decision not to publish under her name during her lifetime? Yes, I think so. ...
2011–05–03 Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Julian Assange
quote HUO: She was the investigating judge. I remember reading about it when living in France at the time. It was in the daily news every day. JA: Right. So ...
2011–05–03 Donald Judd: 101 Spring Street
image In November 68, I bought a cast-iron building in the Cast-Iron District of New York City. The building was built in 1870 and designed by Nicholas ...
2011–05–03 Dean Young: A Poet's (Transplanted) Heart
quote Red Glove Thrown in Rose Bush If only bodies weren’t so beautiful. Even rabbits are made of firecrackers so tiny they tickle your hand. If ...
2011–05–02 Interview With Harsh Patel
quote Any recent trades to speak of? Yes, with two of my favorite publishers, Juan Moralejo and Benjamin Sommerhalder. I forgot what I traded Juan for a ...
2011–05–01 T.J. Clark at the V&A
quote Albert Moore, ‘Reading Aloud’ (1883-84) First, I found myself in the exhibition repeatedly trying to decide how seriously the fine artists ...
2011–05–01 The intimate Orwell
quote And in his famous “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad,” he added:If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a ...
2011–05–01 From 'Homage to Catalonia' (1938), George Orwell
quote Early one morning another man and I had gone out to snipe at the Fascists in the trenches outside Huesca. Their line and ours here lay three hundred ...
2011–05–01 Franzen's Ugly Americans Abroad
quote What a wonderful insight this careless moment of blurb-talk gives us into the contemporary American mindset! We want something worldly, but if it seems ...
2011–04–30 The Guinea fowl terrine at Daniel
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2011–04–30 The genius of Buster
image Buster Keaton as Rollo Treadway in The Navigator, 1924 More than fifty years have passed since critics rediscovered Buster Keaton and pronounced him ...
2011–04–30 'Frame is part of drawing'
text For instance, we know that Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) is one of Robert Rauschenberg’s most important, influential works. It’s the ...
2011–04–30 The Highlights, online arts journal (design by Ken Meier and Yoonjai Choi)
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2011–04–09 Bittersweet
image Grapenut (single scoop, $3.50), one of this coffee shop’s housemade ice creams, features the wheat-and-barley cereal — which ...
2011–04–09 Torrisi's Fried Rice With Prosciutto
quote From the chefs of Torrisi Italian Specialties. 1 tablespoon canola oil 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 ounce sweet Italian sausage, crumbled 1/2 cup finely ...
2011–04–09 Mr Porter typeface
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2011–04–09 Village Voice Food Blog: 10 Best Secret Gardens
quote Lauren ShockeyB Bar and Grill’s Expansive Outdoor Patio� 9. B Bar and Grill: Ok, so this patio isn’t 100% hidden, but if you entered on ...
2011–04–08 Paolo Uccello
image Paolo Uccello, Miracle of the Desacrated Host (Scene I and 5), 1465-69.
2011–04–08 A progress: or, one foot in front of the other
text “I hope they like each other,” someone says behind me. “They’ll like each other by the end,” says another. ...
2011–04–08 On Diana Kennedy's 'Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy'
text She moved back to Mexico. In the beautiful state of Michoacan she built an adobe house far ahead of its time in its ecological obsession, started an ...
2011–04–08 Marcel van Eeden, from 'Sammlung Boryna' (1930)
image at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Museumstrasse 32, CH-9000 St.Gallen
2011–04–08 Ida Kar, photo of Terry Frost (1961)
image Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 is on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, through June 19.
2011–04–08 From Sophia Loren's 'In Cocina Con Amore' (1971)
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2011–04–08 Nieves app
image Download and collect your favorite Nieves Zines, carefully edited and adapted for the multi-touch screen. Leaf through each Zine from front to back, ...
2011–04–08 Frank Bruni: Torrisi Italian Specialties
image Curry cavatelli …“That really struck me: an iconic Italian street in Chinese characters,” [Rich Torrisi] says. “I thought: we ...
2011–04–08 Cate Blanchett (ph: Cass Bird)
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2011–04–07 Michel Foucault on sexuality and solitude
quote Now let’s turn to Augustine’s text, whose meaning is the point at which we want to arrive in our analysis. In The City of God, and later on ...
2011–04–07 Elif Batuman is a wino
quote 1. Lowered attention span. This means I order a lot of free samples. As a former destitute graduate student, I still have a lively interest in free ...
2011–04–07 Alt Screen
quote Event listings and alternative film screenings in NYC. Repertory revivals and advance previews, festival screenings and local premieres, in-person, ...
2011–04–07 Peter Gidal's milk cup
quote “When I came to New York in September,” English avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist Peter Gidal tells me, “I noticed that almost ...
2011–04–07 Anouk Aimee (b. 1932)
image Anouk Aimee is perhaps best known for her remarkable presence as an icon of cool, sophisticated beauty in more than seventy films across seven decades, ...
2011–04–07 Gareth Williams, Letter to Mary Currie (1982)
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2011–04–07 Gareth Williams & Marie Currie -- Flaming Tunes
image The album Flaming Tunes was recorded in collaboration with Mary Currie after Gareth Williams left This Heat in the early 1980’s and returned from ...
2011–04–07 Qaddafi to Obama
quote In Colonel Qaddafi’s letter, addressed to “Mr. Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama,” the Libyan leader reiterated his ...
2011–04–07 How to beat a dead octopus
quote “Some General Instructions” was one of a number of discoveries I made while going through the five-hundred-odd poems that the Review has ...
2011–04–06 David Foster Wallace and taxes
text One wonders what Wilson would have made of “The Pale King,” David Foster Wallace‘s posthumous novel about I.R.S. agents battling ...
2011–04–06 Cover of the Spoon River Anthology
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2011–04–06 Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F FOR FAKE
quote I met him at La Mediterranee — the same seafood restaurant that would figure prominently in the film he was editing — and when I began by ...
2011–04–06 Sally Foster Wallace
quote Mrs. Wallace has written just one book, an English grammar textbook called Practically Painless English. It is the only book of English grammar I know ...
2011–04–06 The tropes of '80s commercials
quote The “Balanced Breakfast”: So we’re all familiar with the cliche of the balanced breakfast. The weird thing, the thing I didn’t ...
2011–04–05 White Columns -- Archive in Progress
image Invitation for Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘Open House’, May 1972, 112 Greene Street White Columns is pleased to introduce its ARCHIVE IN ...
2011–04–05 Groover's paradise
text The Team (l-r): Chuck Weiss, Alvin Crow, Marcia Ball, Ray Bensen, Carlyne & George Majewski Softball games, birthday parties, wedding receptions ...
2011–04–04 Marinetti's cookbook
quote ‘Prescribed doses of poetry and music’ would ‘accentuate the flavours of a given dish with their sensual intensity’. ‘A ...
2011–04–04 Eternal return
text When the band performed Pink Flag once more at London’s Barbican Centre earlier this year, and Newman duly delivered the pointed preface to ...
2011–04–04 Pepsi pavilion, 1970
Pepsi Pavilion with Fog Sculpture, Japan World Exposition. Nakaya Fujiko and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Osaka, 1970. Photographic ...
2011–04–04 'Actaul anarchy shit'
WHY NOT, PARTY CIGARETTE: supplies: cigarette, lighter effect: youre cigarette shoots out sparks how to: take off the safety case on your ...
2011–04–03 From the Andy Warhol Chronology: June-December 1964
quote At Pickwick Lou Reed met John Cale. Terry Phillips, one of the owners of Pickwick met John at a party and asked him to the studios with the possibility ...
2011–04–02 The rhetoric of happiness
quote … like Ian Leslie, I dislike the “Trendy Vicar tone“ of the happiness movement, all the “stop to think about it” / ...
2011–04–02 Hieronymus Cock
One of the most haunting of Bruegel’s images, Big Fish Eat Little Fish is among the first of the artist’s many treatments of proverbs in ...
2011–04–02 Big Fish Eat Little Fish
image I bought two very fresh squid that were good size, about a foot long. I learned how to clean them half a lifetime ago, and am not generally squeamish. ...
2011–04–02 Mopping the floor
Mr. Friedlander, the former nuclear plant operator who is a specialist in emergency responses to nuclear accidents, said that the Japanese decision to ...
2011–04–01 Tombstone of Marcel Broodthaers
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2011–04–01 Offshore/Elsewhere
quote The need for anonymity is common to all these activities, which take place in what one might call the ‘secrecy world’. Secrecy is a ...
2011–04–01 Kinchley's Tavern (Ramsey, New Jersey, est. 1937)
Our blunt but friendly waitress first recommended the house specialty, a Fra Diavolo pie. This 14” wide bubbling beauty had a roughly 1� to 1 ...
2011–04–01 Moises Saman for The New York Times
image A supporter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi holds a portrait of the Libyan leader on a soccer field in a suburb of Zawiyah, where government minders took a ...
2011–03–09 Who?
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2011–03–09 Christgau on Elvis Costello
quote My Aim Is True [Columbia, 1977] I like the nerdy way this guy comes on, I’m fascinated by his lyrics, and I approve of his rock and roll ...
2011–03–09 Christgau in 1983
quote Madonna [Sire, 1983] In case you bought the con, disco never died—just reverted to the crazies who thought it was worth living for. This ...
2011–03–08 Susan Sontag at the Mills Hotel, Bleecker Street (1962)
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2011–03–08 Milan, February 2011
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2011–03–08 Matthew Carr
quote His sitters found Carr just as fascinating as he found them. Tall and painfully thin, despite an addiction to Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (economy ...
2011–03–08 Power cookies
quote Due to the game’s wild success, Pac-Man became an economic term. When a company that is about to be acquired instead takes over the hostile ...
2011–03–08 Elizabeth Taylor eating a burger, 1947
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2011–03–08 Illustration by Hugo Guinness
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2011–03–08 Sandwiches that you will like
quote Spiedies It’s said that the spiedie, a sandwich made of meat cooked in a manner similar to shish kebab, was introduced to America by Augustine ...
2011–03–08 McDonalds: 'Good Parts' (2011). Starring Serge and friends.
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2011–03–08 On 'Soy Cuba'
Auteurism is as much of a problem here as star ratings; it’s not clear that Kalatozov is the individual most responsible for the film’s ...
2011–03–08 Jan Verwoert: 'Secret Society'
text Admittedly, this approach directly contradicts the declared objectives of Conceptual art voiced by many of its first-generation proponents. This was ...
2011–03–08 The art wave
quote [of the David Colman article on John Currin and Rachel Feinstein in the NYT Style section] I will say that it’s the conveniently swattable straw ...
2011–03–08 Tacos Matamoros
image Shown: nachos strewn with chorizo (above); tacos al pastor; tacos de lengua; huaraches; tostadas de ceviche; a goat tamale; a platter of barbacoa ...
2011–03–08 Tyler Jon Tyler, Record Store Day at Death Or Glory Records (Chicago), 17 Apr 2010
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2011–03–08 An introduction to "Paprika"
text Suspend your belief in poems, novels, and movies for a moment, however, and imagine that dream-sharing is something completely new in the world. How ...
2011–03–07 '2520 Deslondes Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005'
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2011–03–07 Features of silk
image Winding the silk solution on a rotating mandrel provides control of tube properties like winding pattern, tube porosity and composite features.
2011–03–07 Chesterton on lying in bed
quote I remember having a conversation a couple of days ago about the bases on which people are likely to discriminate against others in the future. My view ...
2011–03–07 Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011
quote Leo Steinberg, a giant among art historians, died on Sunday in Manhattan, age 90. At the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) awards ...
2011–03–07 Sarang Gopalakrishnan on rationality
text I should distinguish between contemplative and instrumental rationality: the former is about getting facts right, not believing false arguments, etc.; ...
2011–03–06 Proust, petit windowlicker
quote There’s a scene in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1922) which gets at this much more elegantly than I can. Little Marcel is on the ...
2011–03–06 From 'Pale Flower' (1964), starring Ryo Ikebe. Dir. Masahiro Shinoda, art director Shigemasa Toda.
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2011–03–06 Ferdinando Scarfiotti and "Toys"
image “Scarfiotti returned to work in 1990 on Barry Levinson’s Toys. This project dated from 1978, its fanciful story (of a bombastic general and ...
2011–03–06 Zizek: 'Good manners in the age of WikiLeaks'
quote The ultimate show of power on the part of the ruling ideology is to allow what appears to be powerful criticism. There is no lack of anti-capitalism ...
2011–03–05 The Mr. Big Scenario
quote Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 3, 168-193 II. The Mr. Big Technique: A Noncustodial Interrogation Procedure Generally reserved ...
2011–03–05 Butyraceous
quote Today’s word, in association with the superlative Oxford English Dictionary, is butyraceous (adj.) (1) Of the nature of butter; buttery. (2) ...
2011–03–05 Photograph by Ken Pate (Paris, 1975)
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2011–03–05 Photograph by Charles Harbutt (USA, 1970s)
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2011–03–05 Geoff Dyer, from 'Sleeping Under Four Stars'
quote At this point a slight qualification is needed, namely that in some ways a room is more erotic than a suite. A suite subtly revives the division of ...
2011–03–05 Interview with Jeremiah Goodman
quote —“I mean, what do you want to see? It’s ten times better if Yves Saint Laurent does a sweep of a drawing than somebody else drawing ...
2011–03–05 Jeremiah Goodman: Artist's Studios (from Acne Paper 11)
image Jeremiah Goodman’s studio, East Hampton Edward Albee’s loft, New York City Picasso’s studio, Vallauris
2011–03–05 Blog of Courtney Reagor
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2011–03–05 Courtney Reagor, "Still Life II"
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2011–03–05 Lucy Lippard at SVA
quote Lucy Lippard: Ghosts, the Daily News and Prophecy: Critical Landscape Photography Thursday, April 7, 7pmBased on her book The Lure of the Local: Senses ...
2011–03–05 Drawing by John Springs
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2011–03–05 William Powhida: 'A Biased And Incomplete Guide To Some Critics In New York (Where I Live And Look At Art)'
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2011–03–05 A Century of Meat
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2011–03–05 A century of ping-pong
quote Heller: I’m dying to ask this. What is the origin of the term? And is there any connection between the digital connotation, as in ...
2011–03–04 Cast of 'Carlos.' Miniseries, 2010. Directed by Olivier Assayas, starring Edgar Ramirez, casting by Antoinette Boulat, Veronika Varjasi.
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2011–03–04 Peter Lorre Eyes
quote Many jobs require such degrees in Germany, where, as is not the case in America, calling oneself doctor for having completed a thesis in, say, ...
2011–03–04 Immersive uptown gallery experience
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2011–03–04 Americans and Apricots (through 30 April 2011 at Hilary Crisp Gallery)
image The exhibition is loosely organized around the eighth and penultimate edition of Spirale Magazine, which functions less as specific historical ...
2011–03–04 Phil Patton on the Selectric
quote The Selectric was the centerpiece of Eliot Noyes’ s work as IBM’s chief design consultant in the late 1950s. Interviewed in the ’70s, ...
2011–03–04 Rosoff's Victory
image 2. Rosoff’s Victory Room, 147 West 43rd Street The Victory Room was located in Rosoff’s Hotel, owned by one Max Rosoff, who came to New ...
2011–03–04 The Beau Brummels, San Francisco 1965
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2011–03–04 Harsh Patel - LESSON ONE
image Harsh Patel – LESSON ONE Although the greater extent of Harsh Patel‘s practice is producing art multiples, Lesson One focuses on a ...
2011–03–03 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Madonna
quote Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne), a yuppie attorney, has just been assigned to deliver a snarling cougar to an eccentric client (John Mills) when ...
2011–03–03 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Spielberg
quote As the most gifted and congenial by far of all the New Hollywood tyros, Steven Spielberg may be the only consummate master of the post-TV movie ...
2011–03–03 “If a certain date is given correctly in A Vision this must be the Anniversary of our marriage. Last night I had a nightmare. I was in a crowded ...
2011–03–03 “As she and other Yeatsians know to their cost, the poet’s handwriting staggers across the page, as one critic has put it, like a ...
2011–03–02 They Were an Item #118
image Anouk Aimee and Albert Finney
2011–03–02 Obsession with compression
text Ideally, compression does not delete information or material but conceals it within itself, making all hidden components readily accessible should the ...
2011–03–01 Andrew Carmellini: Artichoke instructions
quote … 4. When the artichokes have cooled, remove them from the pot and slice each one in half lengthwise. Using a spoon, scoop out the fibrous, furry ...
2011–03–01 In Piedmonte
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2011–03–01 Breakfast at Frankies 17
image Mushrooms with Poached Eggs ($9)
2011–03–01 Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder
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2011–03–01 Eagleton on idleness
quote It is often forgotten how staggeringly well read [Marx] was, and what painstaking labour he invested in the literary style of his works. He was eager, ...
2011–03–01 Baidu Maps
image Q: How do you offer a satellite-style map solution (a la Google Maps) when your government censors what can/can’t be shown in overhead photos? ...
2011–03–01 Mary Sweeney
image “Very often, particularly in independent films, the editor ends up doing all the producing work in post-production because there is nobody else ...
2011–02–28 Archivists do not find my anecdotes amusing
quote I guess if you think about it, archivists really wouldn’t think it’s exciting, or even that amusing, when you tell a story that wrongly ...
2011–02–28 Elephants by Saul Bass (1956)
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2011–02–28 Fromms Act
image Fromm improved on the manufacturing technique. He used glass moulds, which were mounted on carrier frames and dipped into a vat of rubber solution ...
2011–02–28 Dwight Garner on Les Murray
quote As it happens, Mr. Murray also resembles James Beard, the gastronome, and has written a poem comparing the moon to a baked pig’s liver. As a boy, ...
2011–02–28 Dot Dot Dot
quote For me, Dot Dot Dot was most thought provoking and exciting when it was staring graphic design directly in the face, through the visible development of ...
2011–02–28 'The Museum is History'
image The Museum of American Art opened its doors in 2004 in Berlin, in a ground floor apartment on the Frankfurter Allee 91. The MoAA is filled with ...
2011–02–28 Museum collection top tens: MoMA
quote The ten artworks most-accessed on the website of The Museum of Modern Art. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Vincent van Gogh, The Starry ...
2011–02–28 John Smedley SS11 Concept
image Our menswear collection draws inspiration from the personality of ‘The Archivist.’ Exploring the concept of a ‘collection’ in ...
2011–02–28 Can't get enough Food
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2011–02–28 Otis Stout Bread
image Cayuga Pure Organics near Ithaca, N.Y., has been one of the leaders of the local grain movement. It is also selling breads made with their grains that ...
2011–02–09 Martha Rosler's kitchen mise-en-scene
image Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition (video still), 2011. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). An Audition was but a small part of ...
2011–02–09 Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker
quote One of the pleasures of “Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker,” a new collection of her correspondence with that magazine’s poetry ...
2011–02–09 Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
quote Title page of 1773 edition Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (1757 – 1795) was a directory of prostitutes in Georgian London. It ...
2011–02–09 The other one
quote One may or may not be familiar with the Daily Universal Register, but people are almost certainly familiar with the newspaper it became, the Times. It ...
2011–02–09 Vogue Paris, March 1976
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2011–02–09 Popular fabrics (USA, January 1965)
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2011–02–09 Wall Street
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2011–02–09 Geologie fuer Jederman by Prof. Dr. Kurd v. Buelow (1974).
2011–02–08 Talking drum
quote Kele is a tonal language with two sharply distinct tones. Each syllable is either low or high. The drum language is spoken by a pair of drums with the ...
2011–02–07 Mecki, the hedgehog mascot of Hoerzu, a German TV guide
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2011–02–07 Matisse's typography
image Pages 26-27 of Florilege des amours by Pierre de Ronsard, Paris, Albert Skira, 1948. Lithograph, 38.1 × 29.2 cm. Le guignon, 1930-1932, from ...
2011–02–07 Joyce/Matisse
image Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, and one of 250 signed by the author. Designed by George Macy, this is the twelfth and final ...
2011–02–07 Remate boutique de vintage y diseno
image Remate. Boutique de vintage y diseno. Gorriti 4791. Palermo sabados de 16 a 20.30 hs
2011–02–07 Prestige Records covers
image Jay Jay Johnson a.o.: Trombone by Three Label: Prestige 16-4 (16 rpm) 12" LP 1956 Alternate cover Illustration: Andy Warhol Thelonious ...
2011–02–07 Blue Note 1500 series--Andy Warhol and Reid Miles
image Johnny Griffin: Congregation Label: Blue Note 1580 12" LP 1958 Illustration: Andy Warhol Design: Reid Miles Kenny Burrell: Blue Lights, ...
2011–02–07 Miami, January 2011
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2011–02–07 From 'London Street Photography,' at the Museum of London. 18 February to 4 September 2011.
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2011–02–06 A vanguard of friends
text Tibor de Nagy Gallery Larry Rivers: Frank O'Hara, c. 1955 The body of Frank O’Hara—the broken nose, the bouncy gait, the jaunty ...
2011–02–05 Poster, L'annee derniere a Marienbad (1961)
image Design by Hans Hillman.
2011–02–05 Jonathan Rosenbaum on Alain Resnais
quote Barring only the octogenarian Robert Bresson, who may never shoot again, Resnais is incontestably the greatest living French filmmaker, and quite ...
2011–02–05 (Media)
2011–02–05 Garry Kasparov on Bobby Fischer
text One theory that was not often heard was that Fischer might have been more than a little nervous about his challenger, the twenty-three-year-old leader ...
2011–02–05 'Girls Don’t Cry,' by Nine Antico (Glenat, 2010)
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2011–02–04 David Vasiljevic for Numero Tokyo #44, March 2011
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2011–02–04 T.S. Eliot: The critic as radical
text Eliot was too subtle not to recognize (and too honest not to acknowledge) that his more general pronouncements about political philosophy were ...
2011–02–04 Extradition in the E.U.
quote The Swedish definition of ‘rape’ is wider than in the UK, where some form or degree of coercion is required. Much of the press comment on ...
2011–02–04 ; )
quote Q: I just read a blog post about why sending someone a “wink” on a dating Web site is stupid. This seemed like a reasonable argument to ...
2011–02–04 Studio Visit: Lawrence Weiner
image I didn’t come from a background that had any idea about what contemporary art was, it was not anti or pro, it had nothing to do with it. I do ...
2011–02–04 Chinatown Brasserie--Mushroom Noodles
Mushroom Noodles ($15).
2011–02–04 Welles, Sirk, Hitchcock
text Far more than the Joycean or the Proustian, the Kafkaesque is the high-modernist trope that everyone understands, even Kafka. (“Went to the ...
2011–02–04 Urgh! A Chicken War
quote A Chicken War in New York, as Afghans Rule Roost By DAN BILEFSKY Abdul Haye, armed with the trademark for the Kennedy Fried Chicken brand, has ...
2011–02–03 The letters of Louis MacNeice
text The bulk of the post-Oxford letters are practical. They concern the books he did write, and many relate to books he never began or finished: among them ...
2011–02–03 Balenciaga Spring 2008 Ready-to-Wear--Nicholas Ghesquiere
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2011–02–03 Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop
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2011–02–02 Fraser Gunnery Range: photos by Perry Conner King
image via the The UK UE Urbex Urban Exploration Forums
2011–02–02 'Pathography' ?
image Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) Douglas Coupland: … we’ve obviously entered the age of near total medicalization of personality. To write a ...
2011–02–02 Isa Genzken/Gerhard Richter--Duisburg station
image Anyway, the work seems remarkably undocumented. These are about the only pictures I could find. Genzken and Richter received the commissioned for the ...
2011–02–01 Simplifying crumpled paper
quote The ridges and valleys on a crumpled piece of paper look complex. But there may be only two basic types of formations, which can be stitched together ...
2011–02–01 'The Icicle Thief'
quote The film’s Italian title Ladri di saponette, a play on the Italian title of De Sica’s film, means “Soap Thieves”; it is ...
2011–02–01 A.O. Scott on 'No Strings Attached'
quote Let me check my notes. The name of this one is “No Strings Attached,” and it also stars Ashton Kutcher, a perfectly nice-looking fellow and ...
2011–02–01 Augustus Pablo at Tropical Cove, Brooklyn (1974)
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2011–02–01 Interview with Ted Bafaloukos
image Did you make many friends? I was there for so many years, I had to make friends, to open up all my cards. I did not have many, but I wanted everyone ...
2011–02–01 Letters on the raging peloton
quote Wasn’t it Jarry, mentioned by Iain Sinclair, who used a revolver instead of a bicycle bell? And didn’t he reassure a pregnant woman who ...
2011–02–01 T.J. Clark on Gabriel Orozco
text Orozco is a ragpicker. He takes the modern art background of minimum intervention in the world – the tactics of the ready-made, the found object, ...
2011–02–01 A conversation between Stephen Willats and Hans Ulrich Obrist
quote Please join us for A conversation between Stephen Willats and Hans Ulrich Obrist Originally published in 1973 by Gallery House Press and long out of ...
2011–02–01 Archives: 1968-1972 Walker Performing Arts flyers
image Here is another (slightly overwhelming) group of images from our archives: a series of performing arts pamphlets from the late 1960�s/early 70�s ...
2011–01–09 Parts of Chopin
image Cast of Chopin’s left hand by Clesinger Many people who had not been present at Chopin’s death would later claim to have been there. ...
2011–01–09 Fassbinder on set
image Fassbinder on the set of Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) with actress Hanna Schygulla in the background.
2011–01–09 “And this man with whom I am comfortable kayaks in the summer all over the world, in Alaska, the Aleutians, where Inuits since the Ice Age have ...
2011–01–09 Frank Kermode on William Empson
text And so on, for 25 stanzas, unambiguous about the preferences of the parties, but also firm that the marriage was far from lacking in love. There were ...
2011–01–08 James Agee on 'Les enfants du paradis'
quote Children of Paradise, which Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carne produced and directed in France during the war, is close to perfection of its kind and I ...
2011–01–08 Peter Pomerantsev: 'Hello Goodbye'
text Then there was ‘the milkmaid’, whose story became a Russian YouTube hit: a woman of uncertain age, with gold teeth, permed hair, bright ...
2011–01–08 Dino Buzzati's 'Poem Strip'
text Poem Strip is exhilarating in its inventiveness and highly provocative. Enticing and terrifying in turns, it reinvented the whole concept of the comic ...
2011–01–07 A dubious seduction strategy
quote I would love to read a book with really excellent dialogue (as in, clever but recognizable as spontaneous human speech). I feel that reading good ...
2011–01–07 How artists must dress
text The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the form of a direct visual analogy. A stripe painter may not wear stripes. ...
2011–01–07 Jonathan Rosenbaum on 'Willow' (Chicago Reader, 1988)
text Consider the use of foreign accents and ethnic groupings. Disney’s recourse to such stereotypes in the early 40s — from the nationalities ...
2011–01–07 Jacques Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman
video Coleman tells a story of his early days as a professional musician and a lesson he learned about the bitter practicalities of artistic creation: I was ...
2011–01–07 Sonny Clark, Part II
text One of the saddest sights these days is the terrible condition of one of the nation’s foremost, and certainly original pianists. Having been ...
2011–01–06 Interview with Experimental Jetset, from "If We're Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants, What Are We Reaching For?" by Rudy Vanderlans
quote EXPERIMENTAL JETSET: “For us, one of the many ways to underline the physical, material qualities of a design is through the use of ...
2011–01–05 Jeff Koons v. Park Life store
quote From the Complaint for Declaratory Relief; Demand for Jury Trial Filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, San ...
2011–01–05 From 'Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style,' Museum of the City of New York
image Dior mini-dress worn by Sunny von Buelow, ca. 1968
2011–01–05 Alexander Girard. Braniff Airlines playing cards, c. 1968.
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2011–01–05 The typographic "modern"
text This turn was anticipated as early as 1949, when Gyoergy Kepes, a Hungarian emigre teaching at MIT, delivered an address at Harvard about the role of ...
2011–01–05 The plain beauty of well-made things (Donald Judd's writing)
quote The excerpt begins: Until lately art has been one thing and everything else something else. These structures are art and so is everything made. ...
2011–01–04 Hamish Hamilton: Five Dials, Number 13
image Featuring Dean Warham, Alain de Botton, Mike Watt, James Murphy, and James Greer. Art by Raymond Pettibon and Martin Parr.
2011–01–04 Minecraft, a crudely sadistic sandbox game
text Minecraft’s physics are, in a way, exceptionally advanced. Thus far, the contents of pretty much every environment in a video game have been ...
2011–01–04 Writers' rooms: Heston Blumenthal
image Photograph by Eamonn McCabe This is the Fat Duck’s development kitchen, also known as the lab. Before we got this space I was in a garden shed ...
2011–01–04 Sam Stephenson on Sonny Clark
text Clark seated at piano backstage at Syria Mosque for Night of Stars event, 1946. Courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Heinz Family Fund; © ...
2011–01–04 Chili con carne
Chili was first invented by the Spanish Canary Islanders, in the city of San Antonio, Texas, which they founded. The recipe used for American ...
2011–01–03 Back of a paperback
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2011–01–03 Twice Removed
image Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Work Encountering the “take away” artwork, consisting of unlimited or large-run editions whose ...
2011–01–03 On 'Modern Family'
text Today, we have a similar selection. Anodyne comedies like Modern Family and Parks and Recreation present a pleasant, untroubled picture of the present ...
2011–01–02 Godard on E-Books
image “What I call time is this,” he said, as he opened the book and flipped its pages back and forth. “For the electronic book, ...
2011–01–02 Hypnic Jerk
quote A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, or night start, is an involuntary myoclonic twitch which occurs during hypnagogia, just as the subject is ...
2011–01–02 Excerpt from 'Ball of Fire' (1941). Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, d: Howard Hawks.
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2011–01–02 Pals For Life / Life For Pals
image Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to announce, Pals or Pals for Life / Life for Pals, a teleplay about the dialectics of friendship under the strain ...
2011–01–02 From Samuel Beckett, 'More Pricks Than Kicks' (1934)
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2011–01–02 Pancake people
quote Description of the Internet generation, whose knowledge is wide but shallow. Writing for The Huffington Post in December, Marshall P. Duke commented on ...
2011–01–01 Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan at International Center of Photography
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2010–12–31 Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
quote The Stranger (The Outsider), Albert Camus (1942) Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust (1913-1927) The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925) The Little Prince, ...
2010–12–31 Helen Shapiro, ca. 1962 (age 15, three UK #1 singles)
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2010–12–31 Fassbinder's 'World on a Wire' (WDR-TV: 1973)
image Mirrors and a variety of glass and window panes that fragment and complicate space in the film. Many directors use mirror shots occasionally (with ...
2010–12–31 Four poems by Richard Meier
quote Tables for two Sometimes we eat at a broad, thick farmhouse table, with drawers above our laps where cold, bone-handled knives lie ...
2010–12–31 Surgery Degree Zero
quote Year-Zero FaceTerm for the ageless visage created with fillers, Botox, chemical peels, and the like. Writing for The Guardian, Eva Wiseman ...
2010–12–31 'Il Gattopardo' (1963). Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon. D: Luchino Visconti.
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2010–12–31 The Mice (Cleveland, Ohio: mid-1980s)
image L to R: Ken Hall (bass, b. vox), Tommy Fox (drums), Bill Fox (gtr, vox)
2010–12–31 Nilsson Sings Newman (1970)
quote Nilsson often reminds the listener that he is listening to the recording of a studio album. Nilsson’s voice in the control room is heard on ...
2010–12–31 Huysmans' Bus Ticket
image A couple of weeks ago I posted on my blog the cover art for a 1959 Penguin edition of J.-K. Huysmans’ Against Nature, in ‘a new translation ...
2010–12–31 Auden reviews Tolkien
quote This idea appears repackaged in a much later poem on the Soviet invasion of Prague:August 1968 The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible ...
2010–12–09 Artists in Action #618
image Dennis Wilson flips Mike Love the bird while brother Carl looks on in astonishment.
2010–12–09 Some people's cows can moo
quote The Russians missed no opportunity to criticize Washington over the leaks. On Thursday, in Moscow, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said that the West ...
2010–12–08 In the Heart of the Heart of a Color (1976)
quote In its reliance here on metaphor, language shows us how separate its function must always be from that of sensation. The philosopher’s point Mr. ...
2010–12–08 A plane flies through a Google Maps satellite image
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2010–12–06 Becherovka
image A bottle of Becherovka, a bitters made in the Czech Republic and bottled at 38% ABV. Becherovka listen (help.info) is an herbal bitters made in ...
2010–12–06 James Wood on Keith Moon
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2010–12–06 The Essential House Book
image ALL TEXT AND IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE ESSENTIAL HOUSE BOOK BY TERENCE CONRAN, 1994; “THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY [FOR FREDDY]” BY XIU XIU, FROM ...
2010–12–05 Los Angeles: Classic Drive-In Delight at Capitol Burgers
image Once upon a time describing food as “fast” wasn’t pejorative. During the rapid (sub)urbanization of post war America, the slow-cooked ...
2010–12–05 'Relaxation Drinks,' by Mauricio Alejos
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2010–12–04 Whose flag was it?
text And so the story goes that Rauschenberg smuggled them into the show anyway, as elements in his own combine painting. [It’s not clear why ...
2010–12–04 Icelandic Art News
image In may 1965 an article in Morgunbla, Reykjavik’s most widely-read newspaper, announcing a Musica Nova concert with composer and pianist Nam June ...
2010–12–04 Frederick Wiseman's 'Reality Fiction'
text Belfast, Maine (1999) The turn is evident, to my eye at least, in his beautiful film of 1999, Belfast, Maine, in which there is a palpable ...
2010–12–04 Response to 'Generation Why?'
quote To the Editors:I’m old enough that any thoughts I have on social networking are of limited value [Zadie Smith, “The Social Network,” ...
2010–12–04 Zadie Smith: 'Generation Why?'
text … Finally, it’s the idea of Facebook that disappoints. If it were a genuinely interesting interface, built for these genuinely different ...
2010–12–04 'Spirit Duplication,' Yara Flores
text …The ditto machine, or “spirit duplicator” as it is more properly known, was a manually cranked drum-printing device originally ...
2010–12–04 John Baldessari "Not Prints: Posters 1966-2010," Installation view, 2010
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2010–12–03 Kelefa Sanneh: Jay-Z's "Decoded" and the language of hip-hop
text Jay-Z explains not only what his lyrics mean but how they sound, even how they feel:When a rapper jumps on a beat, he adds his own rhythm. Sometimes ...
2010–12–03 White Fence: White Fence (Make A Mess, 2010)
image Tim Presley is a member of the bands Darker My Love and the Strange Boys, which do variations of dirtied-up psychedelic pop. White Fence is his third ...
2010–12–03 From "The Narrow Corner," W. Somerset Maugham (1932)
text The boy withdrew it from the flame, kneaded the pellet again and cooked it once more; he inserted it into the pipe and handed it to his master. The ...
2010–12–03 The dashboard of Jose Pereira’s 1974 Lincoln Continental features an eight-track tape player. “It’s a super-economical car,” ...
2010–12–03 'Supercalifragalistic': Dick Van Dyke's musical memories
quote “I hear you like to harmonize,” he said. “I love to harmonize,” Van Dyke replied, and invited the man and his friends to come ...
2010–12–02 After the Cleveland School
text So, at a minimum, the tension that Clark associates with modernism is at least as old as Hume and Blake. One is tempted to write a long essay about ...
2010–12–01 Donald Barthelme's Syllabus
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2010–11–08 An Interview With Alan Stillman
quote NCR: Where were those people hanging out before you opened your bar? Stillman: At the time, it was all cocktail parties. What would happen is that on ...
2010–11–08 My Endless New York
text By the time I got to Paris, most people in the world had stopped speaking French (something the French have been slow to acknowledge). Who now would ...
2010–11–08 Christgau on Prince's 'Dirty Mind'
quote Prince Dirty Mind [Warner Bros., 1980] After going gold in 1979 as an utterly uncrossedover falsetto love man, he takes care of the songwriting, ...
2010–11–08 'Make Me Psychic,' Sally Cruikshank (1978)
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2010–11–08 Deconstruction as a way of analyzing texts
text If the text is anything you want it to be, however, then there seems little point in insisting on the precision of the method. In other words, the ...
2010–11–08 William Whyte's classic The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
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2010–11–06 What you missed the other night at K and M bar
video THIS IS WHAT YOU MISSED THE OTHER NIGHT AT K&M BAR
2010–11–06 Nora Ephron's scarves
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2010–11–04 Bespoke fish coffin, Ghana
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2010–11–04 I was eating some Fish and Chips the other day. The first french-fry I absent-mindedly put in my mouth was, by a large margin, the absolute worst item ...
2010–11–04 Murals on Telephone Exchange, Holborn Viaduct
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2010–11–03 Disappearing Ink
image Hans Haacke: News, 1969/2008 I left the New Museum’s “The Last Newspaper”—a show that sets out to explore the relation between ...
2010–11–03 Girolamo dai Libri: Madonna and Child with Saints (20.92)--The Metropolitan Museum of Art
image Madonna and Child with Saints (detail), altarpiece, ca. 1520 Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Veronese, 1474/75-1555) Tempera and oil on canvas Arched top, ...
2010–11–03 Tim Lincecum
quote … Outfielder Cody Ross, who scored on Edgar Renteria’s decisive three-run homer off Cliff Lee in the seventh inning Monday, said Lincecum ...
2010–11–02 Roula Partheniou
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2010–11–02 On "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
quote Exo: grand statement alert: Exo: Kanye’s most emblematic quality has been his willingness to speak ego to power. that’s sorely missed by ...
2010–11–02 Pineapple prepared for sale in Haikou, Hainan, China.
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2010–11–02 In the Studio #64
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2010–11–01 Fits and starts
quote Toddlers and Tiaras. My present intrigue is the walk/dance of “glitz” contestants when they’re modeling swimsuits/talenting. ...
2010–11–01 Stills: Alice in the Cities (1974)
image Directed by Wim Wenders. With Yella Rottlaender, Ruediger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Koechl.
2010–11–01 (Media)
2010–11–01 The battles for late night
text Weaver was a Dartmouth philosophy major; his boss, the redoubtable David Sarnoff, president of RCA, which owned NBC, had never gone to college. Weaver ...
2010–10–31 The weekend
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2010–10–31 Because Samuel Beckett already writes the way he does
quote Mark McGurl, quoted by Elif Batuman, argues that the ‘ultimate commitment’ of the discipline of creative writing ‘is not to knowledge ...
2010–10–31 Marilyn Monroe's Stuffing
quote Scrawled on stationery with a letterhead from a title insurance company, the recipe describes in some detail how to prepare a stuffing for chicken or ...
2010–10–08 The Barthes who painted water colors
quote Barthes has always been one of my favorite authors. He is really a writer, not just a theorist or critic. What I particularly like is that he is really ...
2010–10–07 Mario Vargas Llosa with his second wife, Patricia (1967)
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2010–10–07 Mainly Spaniards - 1982 - That's What Friends Are For 7'' (NZ)
image Mainly Spaniards – 1982 – That’s What Friends Are For 7’‘ (NZ) download@rapidshare
2010–10–07 Bad Boy Mixtape Vol. 3, 1996
image Stretch Armstrong & Puff Daddy: Bad Boy Mixtape Vol. 3 (1996) Medafire Side A: 01. The Lox & The Notorious B.I.G. – Freestyle 02. Nas, ...
2010–10–06 The Riptides - Sunset Strip 7" (1978)
quote DOWNLOAD Video de “77 Sunset Strip”
2010–10–06 NBA cooks up edible logos to make mark on pizza and toast
image The NBA is offering edible basketball logos that can be put on cooked pizza.
2010–10–06 T.J. Clark, 'Modernism, Postmodernism, Steam'
text The question to put to the art of the present, then, is what does that art appear to see as the beliefs in the culture of our own moment that are ...
2010–10–06 "Good morning"
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2010–10–06 Aesthetic Judgment and Its Suspension
quote The suspension of aesthetic judgment can be liberating. Not having to worry at every moment about “how good it is” is a foundational ...
2010–10–05 Privacy is history, 1888
quote In Silicon Valley Paris, the software coder Mark Zuckerberg the gossip reporter George Flack pitches his idea for a new kind of social-networking site ...
2010–10–05 Favorite kitchen tool: spoon
quote The best tools are the simplest tools. The above spoon sat around among my stove-side utensils, lonely and forlorn, seldom used. Just a spoon, after ...
2010–10–03 Jimmy at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 2009
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2010–10–02 Frank Santoro on comics' framing devices
image (Grids in North American comics.) … Also, most grids in comics fluctuate – the panel size may be uniform for a page, but often not for a ...
2010–10–02 Loredana Detto
image Loredana Detto: irresistible in Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto (1961)—her only acting credit. Always wondered what happened to her. Turns out she ...
2010–10–02 Mexican Authorities Burn 134 Tons of Marijuana
image And so up in smoke went the equivalent of a few hundred million joints in what Mexican authorities called the largest seizure of the drug in the ...
2010–10–02 Hotel Slang (1939)
quote CAVE | Guest room. TO CLIMB THE CLEATS | To use the stairs. COMP | Non-paying guest. CRACK | Prostitute. CROCK | Bottle; drunken person. ...
2010–10–02 Osborne's Kidney Cuts
quote An extract from George Osborne’s statement in the House of Commons on the 2010 Spending Review: I am grateful to the work of my right honourable ...
2010–10–02 Sorry, we didn't know you were invisible
quote That the stealth submarine is currently so hard to miss brings to mind the mocking Serbian apology offered in 1999 after its military shot down an ...
2010–10–01 Paulina Olowska: "Applied Fantastic"
image PAULINA OLOWSKA: “APPLIED FANTASTIC” Opening: Thursday, 28 October 2010, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Exhibition: 28 October – 4 December ...
2010–10–01 Plucked from Obscurity
video The “hapax legomenon,” as classicists among us know, is a word that appears only once in a language’s (or an author’s) texts. ...
2010–10–01 'TELEVISION with BRYAN ENO' [bootleg]
image BRIAN ENO & TELEVISION Television With Brian Eno (Scarce US 6-track LP recorded live at Fairland Studios in 1974 with all vocals & track ...
2010–10–01 The original interior of the Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan
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2010–09–30 Elvis Costello, "Accidents Will Happen" (1979)
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2010–09–30 Maxell XLII
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2010–09–09 "The Krazy Kat That Walks By Himself," from Seven Lively Arts (1924)
text The theme is greater than the plot. John Alden Carpenter has pointed out in the brilliant little foreword’ to his ballet, that Krazy Kat is a ...
2010–09–09 Messerschmidt's Mad Faces
text Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) is one of those elusive eighteenth-century figures who confront us with the nocturnal side of the enlightenment. ...
2010–09–09 Kingsley Amis: Letter to Peter O'Donnell
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2010–09–09 NWA, 1987.
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2010–09–08 William N. Copley. "Great Expectations," 1973. Charcoal on paper, 24 x 18 in.
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2010–09–08 Thomas Mann on smoking
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2010–09–08 My Own Private Delaware
image The unassuming official home of Twentieth Century Fox, Kentucky Fried Chicken and 200,000 other companies
2010–09–08 Wimple Winch 4 track acetate
quote Was this a proposed EP for release in 17th January 1967? This 10 inch Fontana acetate brings together all tracks from their 2 singles with the ...
2010–09–08 The problem with Shakespearean authorship theories
quote Imagine an aristocrat, an enormously gifted polymath of the early 17th century. He produces two bodies of literary work: the first, under his own name, ...
2010–09–07 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
text Replacing the off-white painted walls that had prevailed there since the Kennedy administration is wallpaper hand-painted in alternating vertical ...
2010–09–07 A reality that exists largely independent of our convictions
quote Thomas Nagel, in his review of my book Natural Reflections, mistakenly infers that I do not ‘believe in’ a ‘reality that exists ...
2010–09–07 Pizza Obsessives: Colin the 'Slice Harvester'
quote Wow. That made me hungry and I just had breakfast…. Um, let’s see, what’s next on the list here … What’s your favorite ...
2010–09–07 Interview with Phil Schaap
quote Can you name all the WKCR jazz festivals? Let’s see if I can name them all — I betcha I can. The first one was Albert Ayler in the fall of ...
2010–09–07 Roger Federer vs. Brian Dabul, First Round--US Open 2010
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2010–09–06 Meghan O'Rourke, Poetry, "Apartment Living," The New Yorker, September 20, 2010, p. 63
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2010–09–06 Alan Clark: 'Elephant'
video A stunning piece of television from 1989.
2010–09–06 Titlescreen for "Joe 90"
image Joe 90 is a late-1960s British science-fiction television series concerning the adventures and exploits of nine-year-old Joe McClaine, who starts a ...
2010–09–04 Elif Batuman: "Get a Real Degree"
text Mark McGurl’s The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, a study of Planet MFA conducted from Planet PhD, might not ...
2010–09–04 Mayhew's novel idea
quote Here’s a novel idea: literary works are about exactly what they seem to be about. Wallace Stevens’s poetry is about the relation between ...
2010–09–04 Annotation: Recycled Ideas and Bottles
quote At February’s “The Medium Was Tedium” panel discussion at the New Museum (and later, in his contribution to issue 9), artist Mel ...
2010–09–03 The neuronovel
text In short, we increasingly can’t help but understand – as Hess and Jokeit have it – ‘melancholy as serotonin deficiency, ...
2010–09–03 "Vows"--Ariana Rockefeller and Matthew Bucklin
quote A puff of white cloud strayed across a powder-blue sky as Ms. Rockefeller walked the aisle of fresh cut grass in a Monique Lhuillier embroidered lace ...
2010–09–03 Pac Marks #2: Hypothetical, Political, Lyrical (In That Order)
text The verse itself is strong but not stunning. It’s simple and to the point, but in a sense that’s why it’s so impressive. That’s ...
2010–09–03 R.D. Laing, "Conversations with Children"
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2010–09–02 Borges and Local Color
What’s odd about Borges’s Personal Anthology is how boring it is relative to his collected works. Borges explains in a preface that ...
2010–09–02 Brian Chippendale's Puke Force No. 16
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2010–09–02 Claude Chabrol--Obituary
Referring to the uneven critical reception of his work, Mr. Chabrol is said to have remarked, “You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are ...
2010–09–02 Jonathan Rosenbaum: on Peter Greenaway
text One can still enjoy Greenaway’s sarcasm and aesthetic eccentricity up to a point, if only because his intelligence, his art-history background, ...
2010–09–02 Jonathan Rosenbaum: Fritz Lang "Spione"
quote Lang shares with Orson Welles a taste for using powerful authoritarian figures to forge a kind of autocritique of his own artistic practice and its ...
2010–09–01 "About seventy per cent of the world's tufted carpet is...
quote “About seventy per cent of the world’s tufted carpet is produced in the vicinity of Dalton, Georgia, according to the Carpet and Rug ...
2010–08–31 Frank Kermode's cannabis plant
quote What first grabbed my attention was not Kermode sitting there in his tennis whites, but rather the large near-to-flowering cannabis plant growing from ...
2010–08–31 Football as Before
text Usually citing the cool music, or Zidane’s gladiatorial good looks, people uninterested in soccer have often told me the movie exceeded their ...
2010–08–09 William Savory
text Part of what makes the Savory collection so alluring and historically important is its unusual format. At the time Savory was recording radio ...
2010–08–09 The Elaine Benes look re-appears
image The floral-and-tough look of Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes on “Seinfeld” is this summer’s downtown inspiration.
2010–08–09 Anthony Lane on "Get Low"
quote “One thing about Chicago: people knew how to die,” Quinn says of happier days. When I tell you that Quinn is played by Bill Murray, you ...
2010–08–09 psyched out - bookforum.com / in print
text In expressing these concerns, I date myself, no doubt. By the early 1990s, something changed in the context of Deleuze’s reception, at least in ...
2010–08–09 David Gascoyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
image David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 – November 25, 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.
2010–08–08 Bins
image Frankfurt Kitchen from the Ginnheim-Hoehenblick Housing Estate, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Designer: Margarete Schuette-Lihotzky (Austrian, 1897-2000) ...
2010–08–07 The Freshies, 'My Tape's Gone'
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2010–08–07 Kaugummi Books
image New titles by Massimiliano Bomba / Jimi Franklin / Gerg� Szinyova / Aleksandra Waliszewska / Jaakko Pallasvuo / Alexander Binder / Marcus Oakley / ...
2010–08–07 T. Hodler on "Alan Moore's The Courtyard"
text The original prose story does in fact display flashes of Moore’s trademark wit and invention, but it is end still fairly typical of Lovecraft ...
2010–08–07 Among the Flutterers
text Quattrocchi draws conclusions a little too easily from a consideration of the connection between the fury of the pope’s attacks on homosexuality ...
2010–08–07 Rodolfo Fogwill obituary
quote A brilliant description of life underground during the conflict, Fogwill stressed that the book was above all a “mental experiment”. ...
2010–08–06 Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin
image 225 pictures shot in collaboration with Tamara Shopsin for the book Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin Published by Alfred A. Knopf
2010–08–06 (Media)
2010–08–05 Ty Segall in dreams
text People streamed out after the band finished and I made my way up to the front, near a fan mounted on the wall, which almost made it bearable to stand ...
2010–08–04 Bags by Miles Jopling
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2010–08–03 This love of mine turned me into a hooligan
video “Lasky jedne plavovlasky” (Loves of a Blonde), intro credits. Dir: Milos Forman, 1965
2010–08–02 "Our Love," June 1970 (Marvel Comics)
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2010–08–02 Fjord's Smorg-Ette
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2010–08–01 Arguing with Tony Judt
While scanning new magazines or newspapers, there are certain bylines you tend to notice. The list of them varies from person to person. But the habits ...
2010–08–01 Sorts of Success
quote Stefan Collini notes that Graham Greene became the literary editor of Night and Day, which folded within a year (LRB, 5 August). In fact, Greene was ...
2010–08–01 PictureBox--Exotic Pets Poster
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2010–08–01 Across the street from 'Shea Stadium' last night
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2010–08–01 Tongue taco, Roosevelt Avenue
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2010–08–01 Khira Jordan -- Staff -- Opening Ceremony
image NAME Khira Jordan HOMEBASE OC WorldWide HOMETOWN Los Angeles, CA ASTROLOGICAL SIGN Libra MYSELF IN THREE WORDS Not not fun FIRST CASSETTE TAPE ...
2010–08–01 Hurricane Earl
image Fajardo, Peurto Rico. Ricardo Arduengo/Associated Press
2010–08–01 My brother on 'Seinfeld'
quote “Neurotic narcissists prove unable to help each other.” – October Hare‘s seven-word summary of Seinfeld In each episode of ...
2010–08–01 St Nick
image The Skull and Crossbones of St. Nicholas Church, Deptford, London. This church is a short walk down from the ship yards on the Thames. The sailors ...
2010–07–31 The Hollinwell collapse
quote How the mysterious collapse of nearly 300 young musicians at a rural English fete became one of the most controversial examples of ‘mass ...
2010–07–31 Crash course in science: early synth wave from Philadelphia
video “Flying Turns”, which you can stream below, was recently included on the Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1 compilation. Crash Course in Science ...
2010–07–31 When the Republicans were right
quote When the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment in May 1919 it did so by 304 votes to 89, with Democrats only 104 to 70 in favour but ...
2010–07–31 For Eixample
image Barcelona, aerial photograph showing Ildefonso Cerda’s chamfered grid, from the 1859 city plan
2010–07–31 From "Cezanne's Doubt," Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1945)
text His painting was paradoxical: he was pursuing reality without giving up the sensuous surface, with no other guide than the immediate impression of ...
2010–07–31 Money As We Knew It?
text Lost gestures What is all this supposed to mean? I believe it is a piece of the historical past of the money experience as well as of individual memory ...
2010–07–31 Poptimist #32
quote V is for Virtue (and Vice): Guilty pleasures appeal as a concept because the feeling you oughtn’t to be enjoying something is a really powerful, ...
2010–07–09 Still from R. W. Fassbinder, "Katzelmacher" (1969)
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2010–07–09 Hugh Trevor-Roper and his wife Alexandra at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1980. Photograph: Graham Harrison/Rex Features
2010–07–09 This Thursday in LA
image Me self-promoting on here…means something is up. Come find out. Mention getting tag banged and I’ll give you one of the letterpressed invites.
2010–07–09 Luther Blissett, official likeness. Andrea Alberti & Edi Bianco, 1994.
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2010–07–09 Tom Stoppard returns to BBC with Ford Madox Ford adaptation
quote Playwright’s five-part BBC2 version of the first world war story Parade’s End will be his first projects for corporation since 1970sTom ...
2010–07–08 Nieves: Huge Supplement
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2010–07–08 Louise Bourgeois' apartment, Chelsea
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2010–07–07 Stevie Smith, self-portrait
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2010–07–06 Graphic
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2010–07–06 Pie: Issue 3, Trace
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2010–07–06 Nathalie Du Pasquier
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2010–07–04 Images from the James McMullan Collection
image Original art for cover of Los Angeles Times West magazine, February 1, 1970.
2010–07–04 Paper Plates Fit for a Queen
image (Above) Click on any image for larger view. ART DEALER EXTRAORDINAIRE Joshua Lowenfels discovered these paper plates decoupaged with male imagery, ...
2010–07–03 Jerry Devo's Belushi Coke Yarn and Other Stories
quote Crawdaddy!: Didn’t the immortal Fred Willard host the episode of SNL you did? Casale: Yeah, I think so. I think—wasn’t Martin Mull on ...
2010–07–03 Mark Twain on interviewing
quote By some cosmic fluke, the Mark Twain Foundation has just released a previously unpublished essay (written circa 1889 or 1890) by the great writer ...
2010–07–03 Improbable research
quote In the ordinary eating of shredded wheat biscuit with milk or cream, if a thin milk is used and the biscuit is allowed to soak even for a comparatively ...
2010–07–03 Beef Sesame Pancake at XSG Dumpling House
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2010–07–03 To Be (or Not to Be) Continued
text Well, one of my initial impetuses for the way [Wilson] was told was that I was reading the collected Peanuts editions […] And to read them in ...
2010–06–30 Comics of attraction
text If you put the first three Yokoyama Yuichi books together, you have a composite image of the development of a landscape for leisure tourism in Japan, ...
2010–06–03 Bushmiller's Nancy and Iconic Solidarity
text Nancy and her doppelganger-cousin One tired jab against Ernie Bushmiller was that he didn’t draw his characters but merely rubber-stamped them on ...
2010–06–02 Bookplate
image ‘Winward Prescott’ bookplate from the Pratt Ex Libris Collection. Via HH.
2010–05–02 Why coffee stains are ring-shaped
text There’s a group of clever people at the James Franck Institute (UChicago) who study some of the overlooked and bizarre regularities of everyday ...
2010–05–02 From '24 Pieces,' Allen Ruppersberg
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2010–04–02 On Ecto cooler
text Flavorists are genre-benders creating tastes (processed in the brain mostly through the nose) by combining chemical elements of what you think you ...
2009–11–05 Artists in Action #538
image Angie Dickinson leaves the tarmac with a smile on her face and, perhaps, a song in her heart.
2009–11–05 Bread shoes by R/E Praspaliauskas
image Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread.
2009–11–02 The First / Last Newspaper - Dexter Sinister
image THE FIRST / LAST NEWSPAPER Dexter Sinister Publishing imprint Dexter Sinister will transform BLANK SL8 (pronounced “Blank Slate”)—a ...
2009–11–01 Food's Fiscal Facts, Marinetti, and the "Art of Eating"
image Food’s Fiscal Facts from Avalanche 4, 1972. Shown at “From the Archives: 40 Years / 40 Projects,” at White Columns, New York. Photo: ...
2009–10–09 Fantastic Mr. Arctic Fox
image Older Fjallraven (Swedish for Arctic Fox) jacket/parka from a finished basement/workshop of an estate sale, made in Finland. Fjallraven is a Swedish ...
2009–10–09 The spicy fries at Xiao La Jiao in Flushing
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2009–10–08 Thebes, Egypt. John Bulkley Greene, salt print (1854)
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2009–10–08 Les cahiers purple, Elein Fleiss
quote “I think most Purple Fashion readers are new readers, if you can call them readers, I think they’re part of these people that go through ...
2009–10–07 Discontinuities in maggots
quote Michael Berry’s old Physics Today article on singular limits opens with this brilliant analogy:Biting into an apple and finding a maggot is bad ...
2009–10–07 Andy Warhol, Ladies and Gentlemen, at Skarstedt Gallery
image Warhol, cross-dressers, and his Polaroid Big Shot camera. His assistant Vincent Fremont: “Bob Colacello found most of them at a club called the ...
2009–10–06 Dim Sum at Ocean Jewel in Flushing, Queens
text Ground pork meatballs with slices of conch meat and shitake on top. Fried glutinous rice balls with a shrimp and ground meat filling. Steamed eggy ...
2009–10–06 New Work: 'Matisse as Printmaker'
image The 80-page book is intimately scaled at 6 5/8” by 8 �”. The cover features no type, only Matisse’s signature, and appears in one ...
2009–10–04 Damien Hirst: Dead on Arrival
quote “They’re thoroughly derivative. Their handling is weak. They’re extremely boring. I’m not saying that he’s absolutely ...
2009–10–03 Flip-Flops for Sale
image In dowtown Recife. And in Oscar Freire, Sao Paulo (Havaianas store by Isay Weinfeld).
2009–10–02 Faces of Science #4
image Carl Sagan
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2009–10–01 From the dark past
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2009–10–01 Where the Wild Things Are
text A wild thing with James Gandolfini’s voice and Max Records in Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze, 2009).Hoberman, in his Village Voice ...
2009–10–01 Society #40
quote September 2009 When I arrived on the train in Seattle, I was supposed to be picked up by two people I had never met. Their names were Kari and Abby, ...
2009–09–09 broken self interactive sculpture
image On view now at AFK Sculpture Show in Berlin, an interactive sculpture based on broken self .com. Curated by AIDS-3D.
2009–09–09 The phenomenon of "swing"
quote The phenomenon of “swing” has received a lot of attention. Does it swing or doesn’t it? Today I’d like to consider another ...
2009–09–09 A Wikipedia Reader, 2009
quote A Wikipedia Reader, 2009. Now online for download and for pre-purchase.
2009–09–08 Picasso's light drawings, photographed by Gjon Mili
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2009–09–08 Guy Kibbee Eggs
quote An egg fried in the center of a holed-out slice of bread goes by many names. One of them, Guy Kibbee eggs, originated because an actor named Guy Kibbee ...
2009–09–05 Dallas, 1950s
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2009–09–04 The 'Room Tones' of the Convent of St. Cecilia
text Molly Lowe‘s video of compulsive consumption, “K-mart shopping”, is in the former chapel Julio Cesar Gonzalez‘s thin cables ...
2009–09–03 J. Crew gets Arty
image I’m not sure what angle the ad-execs at J. Crew are trying to play, but for October’s 2009 J. Crew catalog, they’ve enlisted ...
2009–09–02 The Maxwell Street Market, Chicago
text But buried amongst the random stalls was the promise of transcendent food, which was what had brought us to the little stretch of Chicago street next ...
2009–09–01 Siedlung
quote Got to meet Erik at Motto’s book fair and picked up a copy of Siedlung, published by one of my all-time favorite imprints, Roma. Van der ...
2009–08–31 Sumi Ink Club: Spectacles T-shirt
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2009–08–31 Confide in me, Tom
image In his later years, comedian Groucho Marx became the unlikely penpal of poet T. S. Eliot, and the following is just one of many witty letters sent back ...
2009–08–09 Summer political philosophy update
text I’d describe myself as a left-wing individualist; I’m antagonistic in the abstract to most forms of communitarianism, unions, ...
2009–08–08 #329 -- Highest Common Denominator
quote An increase in scale does not always entail reductiveness: one effect of the best mass culture is to trace or forge the connections among the ...
2009–08–06 Out here over there
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2009–08–05 A cup of coffee by Ryohei Yoshiyuki
image Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds.
2009–08–05 Michael
text 2 The Jackson Five were America’s first internationally recognized black adolescent boy band. They were as smooth as the Ink Spots, but there ...
2009–08–03 What About Style?--1986
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2009–08–02 Lamp Made of Drinking Straws
image The Clutch Light by Scottish designer Scott Jarvie is made of hundreds of colorful drinking straws bundled together, based on the structural ...
2009–08–01 Polaroids
image Everything is Possible (A Polaroid Group Show) 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles August 21-September 13 Opening Friday (tonight) August 21, 7-9pm ...
2009–07–31 L.L. Bean, 1943
image Speaking of Mainers in World War II, this is a US Navy Officer's Briefcase, made by L.L. Bean for officers who were being trained as navigators to ...
2009–07–08 Thread: 'RobMix--tell us about MJ!!!'
quote One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. ...
2009–07–08 The Cloud Project
text Cloud seeding with bacteria to make rain snow ice cream As scientist and emerging technologies advisor Andrew Maynard wrote on his blog, the gap ...
2009–07–08 Pictures of Audrey Hepburn and her pet deer
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2009–07–05 Barney Bubbles for the Psychedelic Furs
image Barney Bubbles’ association with the great British post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs may not have lasted all that long yet it proved to be ...
2009–07–04 Wylie Dufresne's Garlic Bread
quote We roast off several heads of garlic in foil and then put that through the food mill and blend it with some raw parsley and some butter. You get this ...
2009–06–05 Innovative escape tools from german prisons
image DUMMY SUBMACHINE GUN Made from a grease injector, wood, a rubber sleeve, and tape. The mock weapon was found in 1994 in a prison workshop in ...
2009–06–04 Take "Dixieland" jazz
quote Take “Dixieland” jazz. Armstrong’s Hot 5 and Hot 7 sessions are perfectly listenable today. They still sound fresh and new. But any ...
2009–06–04 The exact acoustic shape of the skies above Los Angeles
quote An email was sent out last week from the Regional Public & Private Infrastructure Collaboration Systems (RPPICS) — an organization with no ...
2009–06–04 "The Style is on the Inside"
text Indeed, practically all metaphors for style amount to placing matter on the inside, style on the outside. It would be more to the point to reverse the ...
2009–06–03 Tracy
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2009–05–07 Bryan Schutmaat
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2009–05–06 A Visit to Hellenurme Watermill, Valga County, Estonia
I knew next to nothing about watermills before heading down to see one in southern Estonia, so I had an open mind. The website promised a tour, a glass ...
2009–05–05 Repainting of the 53rd St. IND Station
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2009–05–05 Vaclav Chochola, 'Man Ray Paris, 1968'
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2009–05–03 Nick Lowe, 'Bowi'
image On this date in 1977, Nick Lowe released his first EP and called it Bowi. Nick Lowe used to feign annoyance that David Bowie had released an album ...
2009–05–02 After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman
quote With the choice of Carol Ann Duffy, the post held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes went to a woman for the first time.
2009–05–01 Walker Evans for Fortune
image There are countless essays on these photographs, its meaning and significance. I admire them for the questions they ask, who uses these tools, what are ...
2009–04–07 Against the grain
text the New Criterionists sometimes boast that they and not the multiculturalists are the true democrats, applying to themselves Arnold’s words in ...
2009–04–07 Eggy bread
text My inquiries as to the recipe, as I followed him to the table, were met with an equally nonplussed response. The sense I was beginning to get from Dan ...
2009–04–04 Mirror Mirror
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2009–04–03 Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
text “Giant orange balls are here, Robyn!” exclaimed Adam. …Huh? I had no idea what he was talking about. And then he showed me the ...
2009–04–02 Rio Cinema by 1:2:3 and Kristoffer Sundin
image Design studio 1:2:3 and student Kristoffer Sundin have developed an interior and graphic identity for the Rio cinema in Stockholm, Sweden. (more…)
2009–03–31 New Jack Swing video party
quote I was driving to work this morning and took a left turn instead of the usual right turn and next thing I knew, I was in New Jack City. The clouds ...
2009–03–31 Keaton
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2009–03–09 Attack of the squares
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2009–03–06 The seagulls inside my head
text This “new kind of writing” is necessary for realism’s sake. Even if it is true that each succeeding generation of writers “has ...
2009–02–28 Out of borough experience: Sunnyside, Queens
text Sunnyside is one of my favorite neighborhoods Queens to go and eat. The main reason is that I’m lazy and I’m not always in the mood for an ...
2009–02–08 One of the coolest grids of all time is Karl Gerstner’s grid for Captial magazine. Based on subdividing a square into 58 equal units, Gerstner ...
2009–02–04 James Wood's best books since 1945 (Circa 1994)
quote I had never seen the list – it's not available online – until Nicholas Richards, one of my readers, forwarded me a PDF of the original ...
2008–12–07 Slavoutich, the Poisoned Town
image This is the fourth section of a work of seven dedicated to the Chernobyl tragedy and it focuses on Slavoutich (or Slavutych in Ukraine), a model city ...
2008–12–01 Artists in Action #459
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2008–11–30 'Beyond the literary'
text James Wood’s greatest strength as a critic is that he does not spend much time and space on “what lies beyond the literary.” He ...
2008–08–01 Be my baby
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