A newcomer to NYC, originally from the open fields of Ohio, Anna Irene Brue is a Senior at Nyack College concentrating in International Community Development. She is a passionate writer full of questions, who has found her latest home as one of the International Arts Movement interns. Anna's spirited sense of life and deep hunger for wisdom help propel her forward through the hours as she grows. She thoroughly enjoys sharing good company, kite flying, large bodies of water, adventurous exploration, international politics, story telling, music, and learning all sorts of new things (which includes playing the piano, sewing, and mastering French these days).
Culture Matters More Than Politics
R.R. Reno unveils valuable insight into our shifting priorities, focusing on politics over culture, in his article “Culture Matters More Than Politics” published in “First Things.” Also recently published in “First Things,” Makoto Fujimura writes “A Letter to Young Artists.” “These days, the ability to talk about politics in a knowing way is treated as […]
Philadelphia Museum's Art Sale and the Ethics of Deaccessioning
Robin Pogrebin unveils the confusing rules, guidelines, and ethical structures meant to discourage museums from selling their collections, as the Philadelphia History Museum auctions artifacts to raise money for million dollar building renovations in the article, “Museum Sells Pieces of Its Past, Reviving a Debate.” “With budgets shrinking in a bad economy, the pressure to […]
Artists' Tribute to Mexico's Missing and Murdered Women
Cordelia Hebblethwaite, a reporter from the BBC News uncovers the story behind the London exhibit “400 Women” and the international artistic tribute to Mexico’s missing and murdered women. “The murders began in 1993, and for a while captured the world’s attention; dozens of journalists investigated, and numerous books and songs were written. But to date, most […]
Daniel J. Flynn‘s recent article “Library as Amusement Park” published by City Journal, challenges the modern public library’s embrace of video games as a method of drawing in younger patrons and keeping the masses interested in the life of the mind. “In the midst of branch closings and budget cuts, public libraries have acquired a […]
In “Effing the Ineffable,” Roger Scruton processes the inevitable question that we encounter as humans, “how do we express that which cannot be said?” “…the real meaning of the world is ineffable. Having got to this point, Aquinas obeyed the injunction of Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concludes with the proposition: ‘that whereof we cannot speak […]
Street Art Way Below the Street | The Underbelly Project
Jasper Rees’ latest article “Street Art Way Below the Street” in the New York Times reveals the works of 103 street artists from around the world who mounted their artwork illegally in a long-abandoned New York City subway station this past summer. Here is a brief glimpse into the nature of their artistry, as they […]
Elif Batuman's Review of "The Programme Era"
Released from the London Review of Books, Elif Batuman digests Mark Mcgurl’s book, “The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” in her piece “Get a Real Degree.” The following are a few excerpts and thoughts from the author. “The world of letters: does such a thing still exist? Even within the […]
Small Change | Why the revolution will not be tweeted.
Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of four books, Malcom Gladwell publishes provoking thoughts on Twitter, Facebook, and social activism in his latest article, “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted.” “The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented […]
An interesting insider’s look into Bushwick, Brooklyn’s growing “collectivist” dynamic from Jed Lipinski’s article in the New York Times, “A Commune Grows in Brooklyn.” “ON a recent drizzly afternoon in Bushwick, Brooklyn, members of the Bushwick Food Cooperative gathered beneath a tent in a ramshackle backyard to claim their share of the weekly harvest. They […]
Noticed | E-Books Make Readers Less Isolated
Recently published in the New York Times, Austin Cosidine’s article “Noticed | E-Books Make Readers Less Isolated” unveils the stigmatization of the “bookworm” and how technology may be helping that issue. “VOLUMES have been written about technology’s ability to connect people. But burying one’s nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating — with […]
Each seed an utterance, each bud a speech, each conception a tongue, each word a release.
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