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Sigur Rós Redeems the Music Video By Jenni Simmons In “Glósóli,” Icelandic band Sigur Rós creatively fuses music and cinema, renewing the lost art of the well-made music video...
Against the backdrop of a deepening blue, the murmurs of an eclectic crowd rise up and fizzle into the open space above East 7th Street...
From the Well blog: Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week? The potency of interval training is nothing new. Many athletes have been straining through interval sessions once or twice a week along with their regular workout for years...
From the Washington Post: Le Sandwich Takes a Bite Out of French Tradition...
Upgrade Me By Jonathan Fitzgerald Are we getting better, or just newer?
Night Sky, a new off-Broadway play, concerns a world renowned astronomer named Anna who suffers an injury to her brain during a car accident and loses her abilities of language and communication – a condition known as aphasia...
A confession: a couple of Wednesdays ago, I brought my laptop to work with me for one purpose – to download the latest iPhone update...
From the New York Times’ City Room blog: On Governors I., an Organic Farm With a View. The farm will have close ties to New York Harbor School, which is scheduled to move from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to the island in 2010...
From More Intelligent Life: A review of the “Model as Muse” exhibit at the Met. As the curatorial notes put it, models are those “whose elegant poses and gestures” evoke the attitudes of the day...
From Splice Today: Blogs need to get together if they ever hope to replace the newspaper. If blogs are to fill a void left by newspapers they need to go one step further: get a little Marxist and organize...
From Bookforum: Appreciations of ice cream and cake celebrate the deliciously fattening over the guiltily consumed fake. We also, of course, eat an incredible amount of fake ice cream...
Despite my northern upbringing, I’ve always been partial to the summertime, and increasingly so as I get older. The beauty of autumn, the magic of winter, the new life of spring - it’s all just ad copy in my book...
Growing up, my family and I vacationed in an Upstate New York cabin. A lake spread out, cold and tranquil, just across a gravel road. Hiking trails looped through the woods, a nature center offered pamphlets and kayaks, and our neighbors let us borrow their canoe...
Photo by Mark Bowen / Scripps National Spelling Bee I don’t often wake up in a sweat from reliving the eighth grade. There’s me, four-eyed, cowlicked and draped in an over-sized I.O.U...
America’s Rebellion Against the Car The Philosophy Behind Making Times Square a Public Space By Brian Watkins Times Square was recently turned into a pedestrian mall. What might this mean for the future of American cities - and the automobile...
I’m not a film critic. I’m putting that right out there. If you’re looking for film criticism, you don’t have to look far - this place is teeming with it. It’s not that I can’t be critical. I love tearing into literature, or even the occasional music album...
* Warning: Minor spoilers. “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” -Frederick Buechner Some movies are comfortable beginning cryptically, easing you into the story. But The Fall starts off with a bang...
From the New Yorker: Show or Tell: Should Creative Writing Be Taught...
The New Victory Gardens: The micro-farming component is obvious — Sharecropper proves anyone can grow food in the smallest and most challenging of places. But how does Gauthier’s citywide planting qualify as public art...
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...
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...
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...
State by State, Ecco: New York, 2008. My eyeballs hurt...
The Internet now offers more streaming movies and TV shows than free IQ tests. Of all the options out there—YouTube, Hulu, Joox, and so on—I pay fealty (and nine bucks a month) to Netflix...
“This is what we do every Saturday morning . . ...
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...
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...
From The Atlantic: Fashion in Dark Times. New York fashion is mostly a lot of small businesses...
I’d like for this column to be an illuminating, analytical illumination of the role of the presence of mid-twentieth century, commonplace American victuals as representative of leftover bourgeois sentimentalism for pseudo-capitalist, corporate socialism when manifesting in the Huxleyan dystopia...
Cains & Abels Sing Their Heads Off By Rebecca Talbot Chicago-based indie band Cains & Abels embrace both both harshness and beauty. ...
A dinosaur crawled into my backyard last week. This reminded me that I live in a city where you don’t regularly see dinosaurs. Or even backyards. You see pavement. And now, apparently, you can see dinosaurs, too...
From the Washington Post: With White House Poetry Jam, a New Era Is Spoken For. Some called the event the first White House poetry jam in history...
Paste magazine is one of the very best voices in pop culture journalism today, with witty and incisive writing on “signs of life” in film, music, books, and more...
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Paste magazine is one of the very best voices in pop culture journalism today, with witty and incisive writing on “signs of life” in film, music, books, and more. They don’t play favorites: ...
From the New York Times: Producer Is Chosen to Lead Arts Endowment. The appointment, which is expected to be announced on Wednesday, surprised many in the arts world. It ends months of speculation about who would be selected to lead the nation’s largest and most important arts organization...
From The Stage: Plan to create up to 10,000 entry-level jobs in [UK] cultural industries. While full details of the scheme have yet to be decided, the first tranche of funding will be released to help create 200 jobs for young people working on music festivals across the UK this summer...
From the New York Times: Who Put the Lincoln in Lincoln Center? Good Question Surprisingly, after five decades, the origin of the word “Lincoln” in Lincoln Center “is a mystery,” said Judith Johnson, Lincoln Center’s corporate archivist...
Mere Beauty By Jenni Simmons Painter Jacob Collins seeks to find a place at the art-world table for classical realism. ...
James Gandolfini, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, and Jeff Daniels in God of Carnage, currently on Broadway at the Bernard Jacobs Theater. We forget, sometimes, the thin veneer that sometimes separates our private lives from our public ones...
Things one knows about Jersey City prior to ever visiting: One, it’s in New Jersey. Two, it has the word “Jersey” in its name. Three, you can see it from Manhattan. And four, uh, it’s in New Jersey...
Filmmakers Craig (left) and Brent Renaud in Iraq during the filming of Off to War. Photo by Brent Stirton. Brent Renaud is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has shown at numerous festivals, and broadcast on HBO, PBS, CBS, the Discovery Channel, the Discovery Times Channel, and ESPN...
There has probably never been a better time to appeal to nostalgia when telling a story that involves newspapers: they’re almost gone, but not so gone that we aren’t still sad about the passing...
Photo: Mark Grapengater Most poets can tell you who their poetic grandparents, cousins, brothers, and sisters are - maybe not every single poet who preceded them, but those whose work or style transformed or contributed significantly to their own voice as a poet, even if it was just with one poem...
Photo: Lindsay Crandall I take a lot of walks with my husband and our dog. She’s a rat terrier. Think of a Jack Russell with longer legs and smoother hair and you’ve got it - she’s hyper and she’s a handful...
From the New York Times: Is That in Your Job Description, Maestro? For making news in the staid world of classical music, nothing topped Mr. Robertson’s unplanned New York debut as a singer during the symphony’s concert on Friday night at Zankel Hall, the first of two programs during this visit...
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