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Monthly Archives: May 2023
Baseball And Writing By Marianne Moore
The baseball fan redux. “Baseball is a language, and, for the fanatic, it is language. It is the baseball fan who continues to make language baseball’s lingua franca.Baseball is a language, and, for the fanatic, it is language. It is … Continue reading
Paul Schrader Creates a Diagram Mapping the Progression of Arthouse Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Tarkovsky & Other Auteurs
“The dozens of filmmakers in the diagram above belong to a variety of cultures and eras, but what do they have in common? Some of the names that jump out at even the casual filmgoer — Andrei Tarkovsky, Jim Jarmusch, … Continue reading
Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of Francesco Rosi
“An essential retrospective has just started at BAMcinématek in New York of the films of the great Italian chronicler of crime and punishment (or lack of), Francesco Rosi. One of the least talked about of the great Italian directors, Rosi, … Continue reading
Canterbury scene
“The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound) was a musical scene centred on the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Associated with progressive rock, the term describes a loosely-defined, improvisational style that blended elements of … Continue reading
Who’s Who On The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Album Cover
“The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remains the most iconic album cover of all time. From Paul McCartney’s original concept to the final design, staged by British pop artist Peter Blake and his then-wife, Jann Haworth, it’s not … Continue reading
Blood On His Hands: Henry Kissinger
May 23 2023: “TA SOUS, Cambodia — At the end of a dusty path snaking through rice paddies lives a woman who survived multiple U.S. airstrikes as a child. Round-faced and just over 5 feet tall in plastic sandals, Meas … Continue reading
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Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria villa faces demolition
Jan. 2014: “The Alexandria villa that inspired one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed works of literature could soon be demolished, according to its new owner. Villa Ambron was once the home of Lawrence Durrell, the British author twice shortlisted … Continue reading
Stan Vanderbeek
“Stan VanDerBeek (January 6, 1927 – September 19, 1984) was an American experimental filmmaker known for his collage works. VanDerBeek studied art and architecture at Manhattan‘s Cooper Union before transferring to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met … Continue reading
Socialist feminism
“Socialist feminism rose in the 1960s and 1970s as an offshoot of the feminist movement and New Left that focuses upon the interconnectivity of the patriarchy and capitalism. However, the ways in which women’s private, domestic, and public roles in … Continue reading
The Walls Speak: Art And The Revolution In May ’68
“Marx had always theorized that socialist revolution would take place in advanced, industrialized societies before spreading to the less-developed corners of the globe.” “The streets have always been where the masses bring their voices and grievances. It is a practice as … Continue reading
Gonzo: The Art – Ralph Steadman
“… One of the many facets that sets Hunter S. Thompson’s 70s works apart from other forms of classic American literature are the growling, snarling, punch-between-the-eyeballs illustrations of Ralph Steadman. Roaring from the pages, his pictures visualise the horrors of … Continue reading
John Ashbery “Sings a Song of Thingness”: On Marianne Moore and the Hudson House
Hudson: Lamps of different shapes and sizes and decorative wallpaper from numerous small collections. Master bedroom. “John Ashbery has been having a virtual conversation with Marianne Moore about the ideal relationship between people and things ever since the publication of … Continue reading
John Coltrane – Blue World (2019); James Brown – Full Show: Live at the Boston Garden, April 5, 1968
“… This year’s release, Blue World, is the only soundtrack the musician recorded across his entire career. It dates from his most fertile period, recorded in the lead-up to the creation of A Love Supreme, his landmark work. Because Blue … Continue reading
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Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972
“For decades, the tumultuous period in art history that followed abstract expressionism has been explained through a proliferation of labels. Pop art and Earth art, minimalism and postmodernism, performance art and conceptual art — all these terms and more have … Continue reading
Magic in Service of Truth
By Salman Rushdie (April 21, 2014): “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tells us that the books are still very much … Continue reading
All Architectures I Am: The (Unintended) Legacy of Charles Olson’s Projective Verse
“Do you care about 20th-century American poetry? If so, you may be embarrassed to admit it. In our culture, too many regard poetry, and especially the poetry of the last century, as having all the real-world utility of underwater basket-weaving. … Continue reading
Stars, Poetry—Part I: Aries, Taurus, Gemini; Part II: Cancer, Leo, and Virgo; Part III: Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius; Part IV: Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces
“I approach the language of the stars as symbolic patterns, and use astrology and other symbolic systems as forms of advanced pattern recognition. Here is the first of four meditations where I work my way through a wheel of influence … Continue reading
Unsettling the Score: Éliane Radigue
In her studio, Paris, 1971. “‘I only have one trick,’ Éliane Radigue told me a few years ago. ‘It is the cross-fade!’ She pulled her fingers apart as if stretching taffy and laughed. She was sitting on the couch in … Continue reading
How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free
“They were an odd pair. Albert Camus was French Algerian, a pied-noir born into poverty who effortlessly charmed with his Bogart-esque features. Jean-Paul Sartre, from the upper reaches of French society, was never mistaken for a handsome man. They met … Continue reading
Memphis sanitation strike
“The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker. The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African American men from the Memphis Department … Continue reading
New Hollywood
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) “The New Hollywood, also known as American New Wave or Hollywood Renaissance, was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of young filmmakers came … Continue reading
Old Forest
“In J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Old Forest was a daunting and ancient woodland just beyond the eastern borders of the Shire. Its first and main appearance in print was in The Fellowship of the Ring, … Continue reading
The Pound Era – Hugh Kenner (1972)
“… ‘The Pound Era’ bring; into one volume much of the same kind of insight and point of view found in Kenner’s earlier work. In particular, the book seems to have grown out of a situation Kenner discussed 22 years … Continue reading
Gidra: The Monthly of the Asian American Experience
“Gidra: The Monthly of the Asian American Experience, the self-proclaimed ‘voice of the Asian American movement,’ was a revolutionary monthly newspaper-magazine that ran from 1969 to 1974. It was started by a group of Asian American students at the University … Continue reading
SET – Gerrit Lansing (1961-64)
“How to manage the heat”: On Gerrit Lansing: “Gerrit Lansing passed away February 11, 2018, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. A man of wider & deeper knowledge than almost anyone I have known, Lansing was as familiar with, & brought as much … Continue reading
Wattstax
“Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. … Continue reading
Badge Man
The degraded original version of the Moorman photograph: the Badge Man is purportedly located behind the stockade fence at photo center. “The Badge Man is a figure that is purportedly present within the Mary Moorman photograph of the assassination of … Continue reading
New York Intellectuals
A late-‘50s poetry reading in New York City.. “The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. They advocated left-wing politics but were also firmly anti-Stalinist. The … Continue reading
Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson – Suzaan Boettger
Robert Smithson, walking on Spiral Jetty, 1970, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Mortal Coil: Resurrecting Robert Smithson • Zack Hatfield. “Astonishingly, it has taken fifty years since his death for a ‘life’ of Robert Smithson to emerge. Then again, the endlessly … Continue reading
Chicano Moratorium
August 29, 1970: A Day Every Chicana/o Must Always Remember “The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups … Continue reading
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Hear All Three of Jack Kerouac’s Spoken-World Albums: A Sublime Union of Beat Literature and 1950s Jazz
“At the epicenter of three explosive forces in 1950s America—the birth of Bebop, the spread of Buddhism through the counterculture, and Beat revolutionizing of poetry and prose—sat Jack Kerouac, though I don’t picture him ever sitting for very long. The rhythms … Continue reading
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