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I culture you: A cigar for the end of the world
How will the end come? If the prophecies be true, will there be roars and tumults, crashing and burnings…? Or will we all just blink out? Call it 50/50 either way. Betting odds, enough, that I’m laying in one special … Continue reading
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RIP to two elder statesmen of the Arts
We lost two of the greats yesterday. We might console ourselves knowing they both lived to ripe old ages, and if they didn’t give us their all, in terms of their art, then they gave us so much that it’s … Continue reading
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I culture you: Music to write by
That headline comes with a huge asterisk: it’s music I write by. That’s all I can speak to. When I undertook to culture you on art, I began by telling you that art is subjective, emphatic period. That goes double … Continue reading
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Repelling boarders: an author’s guide to literary piracy
Intellectual property theft, just by virtue of that thunderous phrase, somehow sounds worse than any other kind of theft. It suggests, accurately enough, that those lowdown scalawags are stealing nothing less than the very issue of your mind. Given the … Continue reading
I culture you: Proof of leadership
Jimmy Carter was a teetotaler. So was William Howard Taft. So was George W. Bush, and so was Adolf Hitler. On the other team, among the men who enjoyed a drink or three while they won wars and led powerful … Continue reading
In the bullseye here in the Buckeye State
The phone won’t stop ringing. Earlier in the cycle the calls were all from familiar voices, the candidates themselves or their smooth-talking celebrity surrogates. Here in the final push days, the types of calls are changing, getting more aggressive. They’re … Continue reading
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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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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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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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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