Resolved: Placemats
December 25, 2009
A simple New Year’s resolution to claim order, sanity and humanity.
Archive for December 2009
Christmas: The Final Frontier
December 25, 2009
Instead of the Jon Secada & Lady Gaga Christmas Duets from La-La-Land, we get Pirates of the Caribbean: Mists of the Black Coal Stocking.
Happy or Merry Something or Other
December 18, 2009
This time of year, we might need to consider a different kind of tolerance.
On Keeping a Spiritual Travelogue
December 18, 2009
I had no paradigm for my grandfather’s quiet faith, but his journal changed all that.
2009 in Ideas
December 17, 2009
From the New York Times Magazine: The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas (with a really cool user interface).
Drawing to Find Out
December 16, 2009
From the London Review of Books: At the End of My Pencil. For me, drawing is an inquiry, a way of finding out – the first thing that I discover is that I do not know. This is alarming even to the point of momentary panic. Only experience reassures me that this encounter with my [...]
On the Art Market
December 15, 2009
From the Economist: Suspended Animation. The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008 (see picture). All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ¬£70m, a record [...]
Celebrity: Not for the Faint of Heart
December 14, 2009
From the New York Times: Tiger Woods and the Perils of Modern Celebrity. It is fitting that the hidden costs of fame should be exacted from Mr. Woods almost precisely 50 years after the publication of a book, “Celebrity Register,” that presented a new picture of social standing in modern America, one in which talent [...]