Art

Immortality (Blogging through Grossman, Part 4)

by Micah Towery March 23, 2010 Art

I’ve decided to change my strategy for blogging through Grossman. Not only is it almost impossible to try and successfully capture the first part of the book in any systematic way (the conversation shifts too rapidly and it’s almost maddening to trace any idea), but the second part is so lovely and systematically broken down, [...]

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As If She Were a Symbol of Something

by Sarah V. Schweig March 17, 2010 Aesthetics

Before I post my regularly scheduled post, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I give you an excerpt from James Joyce’s “The Dead.” Gabriel had not gone to the door with the others. He was in a dark part of the hall gazing up the staircase. A woman was standing near the top of the [...]

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An Annotated ‘Some Enchanted Evening’

by Stuart Krimko March 12, 2010 Aesthetics

I recommend playing all the videos at the same time. Some enchanted evening You may see a stranger, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room And somehow you know, You know even then That somewhere you’ll see her Again and again. Some enchanted evening Someone may be laughin’, You may hear her laughin’ [...]

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Insomnia

by Alina Gregorian March 6, 2010 Art

by Elizabeth Bishop The moon in the bureau mirror looks out a million miles (and perhaps with pride, at herself, but she never, never smiles) far and away beyond sleep, or perhaps she’s a daytime sleeper. By the Universe deserted, she’d tell it to go to hell, and she’d find a body of water, or [...]

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very belatedly

by Zachary Pace March 5, 2010 Art

Forgot to post yesterday. To compensate, I am typing a poem “by heart”—you may know it already, by Ms Jorie Graham… THE WAY THINGS WORK is by admitting or opening away. This is the simplest form of current: Blue moving through blue; blue through purple; the objects of desire opening upon themselves without us; the [...]

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Some Works by Henry Darger

by Simone Kearney March 3, 2010 Art

To Make Bach the Grund of Grundrisse and the Chaconne of a Shocked Shack

by David Shapiro March 1, 2010 Aesthetics

Today I thought I should add my secret voice to your evaluations. Your intelligence may be genius, but remember as my mother said also always be nice. A seventh grade teacher consoled me when I was teased: You can always tell the genius by the enemies who surround him. Try, though it’s impossible. See JA. [...]

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Fashion Correspondent: Rodarte

by Stuart Krimko February 1, 2010 Art

We all have fantasy careers. I’ve always thought it would be great to be an Off-Broadway actor. I would invite my cohorts over to my Hell’s Kitchen apartment after a weeknight show, and we would drink Powers whisky and smoke cigarettes until the wee hours; mornings would be slow, slightly hazy, and then during the [...]

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