Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
Departures: The Art of Transformation By Makoto Fujimura The 2008 Academy Award-winning film Departures is both a deep look at death, artistry, and service, and a representation of a new emergence in Japanese filmmaking. The Dehumanization of Sasha Grey By Christy Tennant On Sasha Grey, Rolling Stone‘s double standards, and the victimization of “self-actualized” women. [...]
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Calling all poets: a poetry competition from our friends at Comment magazine. Comment magazine (www.cardus.ca/comment) invites poets to submit contributions in the form of a rondeau suitable for publication in our September print issue. This will be our fourth annual “Making the Most of College” issue, and the submitted poems should in some way be [...]
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And now a word from our illustrious publisher. Call for Participation: Reflections of Generosity: Toward Restoration and Peace ’09 August 19 – September 11 MWR Arts Gallery Fort Drum, New York As soldiers and their families come to grips with ongoing deployments, the need for emotional and spiritual healing is greater than ever. Reflections of [...]
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Back in the early days of the Curator, we ran an article on Vienna-based artist Daniel Domig. Domig and his friend Valentin Hirsch have an opening at Thrust Projects in New York this week – if you’re in town, stop by and see Domig’s work in person! Below are details. Jane Kim/ Thrust Projects is [...]
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: ‘You’ve Read the Book, Now Take a Look!’: Indeed, ownership of literary heritage is what’s at stake here. Literary tourism involves a cheap appropriation, an amateurish displacement of the text’s aesthetic sanctity, critics claim. Who shall be in charge of a writer’s reputation? Who are the audiences, the ideal [...]
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State by State, and How I Made Amends with my Inner Patriot By Jonathan Fitzgerald The places where patriotism and questioning intersect, and where literature can help us reach across a divide. The Rockin’ Key to Familial Harmony By Caleb Seeling You could experience bedtime meltdown – or you could dance. Streaming for Gold By [...]
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From The Times Higher Education: Lazarus-style comeback. Theology is returning to the intellectual scene, says John Milbank, professor of religion, politics and ethics at the University of Nottingham. “That’s why people like Richard Dawkins are so frightened, and why we’re getting a more militant atheism.” He rattles off a list of renowned philosophers – Alasdair [...]
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From the Los Angeles Times: It’s Time to Change the NEA’s motto. Now that the high-profile media event is done, and with a provocative new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts in the pipeline, here’s a suggestion. It’s also symbolic and it’s cost-free too: Let’s change the motto of the NEA.
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From The Atlantic: Fashion in Dark Times. New York fashion is mostly a lot of small businesses. Even household-name designers often lack backers, which means that they make twice-yearly gambles (on their fall and spring collections) requiring huge cash outlays-for the most part, fabrics have to be bought, patterns cut, garments sewn, and finishes applied [...]
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From Art in America: Provisional Painting. For the past year or so I’ve become increasingly aware of a kind of provisionality within the practice of painting. I first noticed it pervading the canvases of Raoul De Keyser, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool, Mary Heilmann and Michael Krebber, artists who have long made works that look casual, [...]
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