13+ hour, 21+ min ago  (719+ words) It is one of those moments when the artist is out of London and I am back from abroad before seeing her again. The studio is empty. Dozens of paint pots stand in trays on the table. I pick one…...

13+ hour, 21+ min ago  (220+ words) [The real problem for the academic humanists] was that they had guilty consciences about their vocations, unwilling or unable to mount a sturdy defense of their calling. Put bluntly, the stewards of the humanist legacy ceased to believe in their…...

13+ hour, 31+ min ago  (273+ words) Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XXVIII'CounterPunch.org Architect: Oscar Niemeyer: Los Angeles 1963. Every day became a dream sequence almost like a seance: I Imagined traveling the lost Apacheria of the Apache Indians: I Imagined standing upright to the sounds of…...

14+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1045+ words) JD Vance on UFOs: "I don't think they're aliens; I think they're demons." Ana's Nin: "We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are." We don't see the world (or the phenomenon) as it is…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (362+ words) After being out of fashion since the beatnik-hippie era of the 1950s through early "70s, beards, mustaches and the perpetual 5 o'clock shadow are back.Trumpsters " including Donald Jr., Sec. of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) " are sporting whiskers. There…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (51+ words) The Scourge of the Sky: a Glyph'counterpunch.org Ed Sanders is a poet, musician and writer. He founded Fuck You: a Magazine of the Arts, as well as the Fugs. He edits the Woodstock Journal. His books include: The Family,…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (414+ words) Alexander Kluge receiving the Adorno prize in Frankfurt, Germany, 2009. Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0 A Renaissance man who survived the modern terrors of total war, Alexander Kluge died this week in Munich at the age of 94. He might not have made it…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (853+ words) Hemingway was 61-years old in 1961; he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature seven years earlier, and he was the world famous author of'The Sun Also Rises, his debut novel, which is prefaced by a quotation from Gertrude Stein who…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (354+ words) An afternoon with a Guggenheim. I experience accelerative movements in most cities and countries. My eyes cozy behind the black curtains- -The home of shutter-releases heard at one thousandth or three or four seconds. It may be like meditating: Invaluable…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (817+ words) David Carrier is a philosopher who writes art criticism. His'Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art and Lawrence Carroll'(Bloomsbury) and with Joachim Pissarro,'Aesthetics of the Margins/ The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained (Penn State University Press) were published in 2018. He…...