Colin Raff proceeds into the biotic sculpture room
Nearing the south entrance, we come upon the Salon’s indisputable main attraction...
Read MoreVan Gogh became enthralled by the gnarled, scarred olive trees…
In Vincent van Gogh's fragile condition, the strong, enduring trees with their anguished limbs seemed to echo Christ’s suffering...
Read MoreSamuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein
Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic...
Read MoreOld New Music
New music includes sounds we’ve never heard before, regardless of how old the tunes might be...
Read More“Everybody wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win”
The footage is remarkable for showing Kanye in a private space that is a world away from the equally intimate – but also highly public – outbursts for which he is now better known...
Read MoreRodeo Relationship
In Genesis 21:8, Abraham’s making a great feast. There’s lots of hamburgers. Oh, yeah. And spaghetti...
Read MoreThen Amy Died
Yes, I drank at the Hawley Arms and the Good Mixer in Camden, went to Trash, saw the Strokes at a tiny secret gig...
Read MoreWay Back When
Despite the fantastic silliness of the in-game time-travel logistics, the promise of historical accuracy has been a major selling point of Assassin’s Creed since the eponymous first installment in 2007...
Read MoreA Sound All of Its Own
Blow Out contains premonitions galore about where conspiratorial thinking, and the technology that encourages it, ultimately leads us...
Read MoreThe 7th Mode
Racers such as the bounty hunter Captain Falcon hovered smoothly across intergalactic circuits suspended in the sky...
Read More‘Few vaudevillistes can escape the contagion’
Your literature amounts to nothing now Having picked up all of romanticism’s errors, Its writings all reveal the face of Nature, Poor and decrepit, surrounded by great horrors...
Read MoreThe insect flew into Van Gogh’s impasto of Olive Grove…
Theoretically the insect could have been been trapped in the olive grove or the artist’s studio...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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