December 2011
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on Frankenthaler's neo-con cuts to the arts
Comprising Joseph Epstein, Jacob Neusner, New Criterion publisher Samuel Lipman, and painter Helen (nary-a-good-review-since-‘62) Frankenthaler, the council’s neo-con cabal killed what it regarded as the left-leaning-critic’s fellowships in 1983. (Some have suggested that the council’s assault on critics was a dress rehearsal for the contemplated dismantling of the entire...
Frankenthaler, lest we forget,
Frankenthaler did take a highly public stance during the late 1980s “culture wars” that eventually led to deep budget cuts for the National Endowment for the Arts and a ban on grants to individual artists that still persists. At the time, she was a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts, which advises the NEA’s chairman.
In a 1989 commentary for the New...
Good review
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Automatism, Causality and Realism: Foundational Problems in the Philosophy of Photography. (Link)
Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. -... →
The late Christopher Hitchens
Don’t take this the wrong way, but the glowing tributes to Christopher Hitchens are both tasteless and incorrect. Have some decency. The boring wisdom has it that Hitchens broke the mould intellectually. He did not. For all the unique saleability of the Hitchensian idiolect (or intertext), he was a very conventional thinker, in addition to being a provincial. He also had a reputation...
Johnny Case in Wonderland: Mr. Hitchens and Me →
johnnycaseinwonderland:
Many years ago Christopher Hitchens gave a lecture at Bedford Falls U. The Politics Department brought him to campus for our annual Scoop Jackson Lecture, for which he gave a presentation based on what he argued were the war crimes of Henry Kissinger. After his presentation, which was amazing, he took Q & A, and he was as forthcoming a speaker as I’ve ever...
WatchCanadian Landscape
Radford Crawley, 1941, 17 min 28 s
This documentary follows painter A.Y. Jackson on his canoe trips and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn. This leading member of the Group of Seven discusses his approach to his subject matter and shows some of his paintings.
Canadian Landscape by Radford Crawley - NFB
“It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, hedgefundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs...”
– Saatchi’s scathing portrait of the art world: ‘Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory’ | Art and design | The Guardian
“I’m not going to Art Basel Miami Beach this year. I’m through with it, basta....”
– Adam Lindemann | Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!
WatchYou Are on Indian Land
Mort Ransen, 1969, 36 min 48 s
The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. By blocking traffic on the bridge, which is on the Reserve, the Indians drew public attention to their grievance that they were prohibited by Canadian...