Authenticity
Julio Perez: Authentic is just an earlier interpretation.
Category: art
“In translation it doubled in size”
Bruce Webber on the late Rosario Ferré Ms. Ferré began writing in English in the 1990s in the hope of reaching a wider audience. Interviewed by The New York Tim...
love on the line
Top: The Conversation, Bottom: Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios
La cultura circula
Karan Mahajan: Shakespeare remixed Boccaccio. Dostoevsky loved Dickens. Marquez said, “Graham Greene taught me how to decipher the tropics.” Mohandas Gandhi, a ...
Elissa Steamer
A simple yet rich portrait of an artist-athlete during a period of cultural shift in which she both flourished and was frustrated.
a functional object
All models are unique, mostly handmade and may slightly differ from the models shown in the pictures. All our products are designed as works of art and are sold...
confessionals
Confessional – Wikipedia The priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice… The priest will usually s...
Portraits of War, Spanish edition
This observation is stolen entirely from Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Note the arrangement of the lances (weaponry) in this 1635 painting by Velázquez: versus this 201...
The heroes we get (summer of 2014, continued)
Guardians of the Galaxy is full of clever jokes and features a disarmingly charming actor as its protagonist. It was made by extremely talented people but its g...
wishful thinking
postscript november 13 OTOH: Emails.
The Management of Feelings
soundtrack Feelings by Morris Albert art Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman Brave New World by A...
a rage for rigor
TO THE HYPHENATED POETS Richer than mother’s milk is half-and-half Friends of two minds, redouble your craft. Our shelves our hives, our selves a royal je...
Chestbursters vs. Engineers
Like many, I found the sequence in which the new Ripley “hacks” a sexist computer to give herself an abortion to be the best and truest to form. The...
Mad Men 2013
About 15 years ago I saw Tyler Brule, then just two years into Wallpaper, give a presentation that would forever change my understanding of art and commerce. He...
The new co-viewing. Same as the old.
Television sets often determine the layout of the furniture in communal rooms. Their position in the typical American home is a clear testament to their social ...
actor and spectator
in the actor-spectator relationship, both participants experience self-knowledge by “trading places” with another person. for the actor, self-knowle...