There Be Giants

Reading Rainbow

A few links, with no particular order, rhyme or reason. In case your post-meal plans today do not consist solely of passing out in front of moving images: Thoughts on Some sweet day from Danielle ...

Après le déluge

“WE’RE hanging in,” Tim Griffin, the executive director of The Kitchen, said, laughing wearily, when I spoke to him on the phone Tuesday afternoon, as he and his staff dealt with the aftereffects of Hurricane ...

I say McDonalds, you say Ai Weiwei

Let’s call the whole thing off. Global culture. As seen in Bergen, Norway.

Thoughts from afar

Norway is almost unbelievably beautiful. The air is drinkable. I’m stranded in it. Which sounds like it shouldn’t be so bad, and is of course a hell of a lot better than many New Yorkers ...

Found (on Facebook) Poetry

Andrew Horwitz On a related and intriguing side note to my essay on Cultural Production, etc. My trustee research assistant told me that a dancer friend of his moved to nyc 7 years ago and ...

Cops and unicorns will never see eye to eye

“Where is the winner?” This was Marina Abramović’s question last night, at the Bessies, right after she and Ronald K. Brown (a rather astounding odd couple) had announced Silas Riener as the first awardee and ...