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I culture you (whiskey 101)
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That’s a metaphor for human culture only if you’ve got the most cynical disposition toward your fellow man. Whiskey (and whisky*) The spirit. The fortified repast that’s better than … Continue reading
I culture you (art edition)
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That’s a metaphor for human culture only if you’ve got the most cynical disposition toward your fellow man. Art: Art is subjective. Emphatic period. Feel free to enjoy the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art blog, art definition, buy art, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, deviant art, I culture you, sub culture, Tagged cultural, wall decor, what is culture?
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I culture you (part 1)
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That one’s a metaphor for human culture only if you’ve got the cynical-ist disposition toward your fellow man. I ain’t comin atcha like that. When it comes to culture … Continue reading
Developing story – HUGE art heist in Amsterdam
At least seven major art works have been stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in the Netherlands, in an early morning heist on Tuesday. The works include paintings by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, and Gauguin. The museum, which was celebrating its 20th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, art theft, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, Gauguin, Kunsthal Museum, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, sub culture, Tagged cultural, what is culture?
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Chinese literature in the spotlight
With this week’s announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the world’s cultural attention has turned to Chinese literature. China has one of the world’s most ancient traditions of written art, yet has been mostly ignored by … Continue reading
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Tagged China, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultural revolution, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, Gao Xingjian, Guan Moye, literature, Mo Yan, Nobel Prize, Pearl Buck, Red Sorghum, sub culture, Tagged cultural, The Republic of Wine, what is culture?
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Richard Dadd: Art and insanity
He was an artist recognized in his lifetime for uncommon talent, astonishing attention to detail, and a fascination with mythological subjects, which was aesthetically felicitous and appropriate for his Victorian upbringing. Richard Dadd was also tragically insane, a confessed patricide, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Broadmoor, Broadmoor Revealed - Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, Mark Stevens, Richard Dadd, sub culture, Tagged cultural, Victorian, what is culture?
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Labor 2012
Last year on this day we took a look back at the history of the labor movement in the United States. This year we’ll take a look around. This article by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis celebrates the history of … Continue reading
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Tagged afl-cio, department of labor, hilda solis, IWW, labor, Labor Day, unions, workers, Working America
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What the melting glacier teaches
Circumstances have brought us to an odd place, where we can simultaneously consider the horrors of an old war, one that’s a hundred years gone and that was supposed to end all wars, and also our grim present, in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ago de Nardis, climate change, global warming, Italy, World War I
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Only I can disenfranchise me
There is no compromise in the latter-day American political culture. Every side is convinced that they’re right, that the other side’s wrong, and that compromise equals betrayal. Lockstep conformity to ideology is the order of the day. It’s probably no … Continue reading
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Tagged compromise, election, politics, voter ID laws, voter suppression
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I tumbl for you
There just might be something unforgivably self-referential in using one blog to plug another. But anyway, here we go. Tumblr is an exponentially growing “micro blog” platform. Twitter, with its 140 teensy characters, has stolen and muddied that “micro” designation, … Continue reading
Art theft by amnesia?
Revisiting conspicuous art theft, we’re happy to say that this time, at least, the thief has been caught and the art recovered. New South Wales lawyer Michael Sullivan, seen here on CCTV examining two paintings by artist James Willebrant (after … Continue reading
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Tagged art theft, Australia, Geoff White, Katoomba Fine Art Gallery, Michael Sullivan, New South Wales
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Happily introducing HTT
Hope you’ll join me in welcoming Hot Tech Today, a particularly exciting tech blog for which I have the honor of contributing. Yet another tech blog, you’re saying. Oh, no. Not at all. This is something new entirely. I won’t … Continue reading
RIP Gore Vidal (Oct. 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)
So passes perhaps America’s last great man of letters, Eugene Luther Gore Vidal. Novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, and social critic; Gore Vidal has been an unmistakable, unforgettable voice in American culture since the late 1940s. Scion of two wealthy … Continue reading
