From the Bible, to Orson Welles, to Dr. Zaius, we create allegories that expose our unnatural human state of violence (against this planet; against each other) and forewarn of an animal kingdom uprising that will soon purge our foreign bodies from this land.
Read MoreThis week on the artblog Reader Advisor: Get a little higher with a newly patented space elevator and a play about Sylvia Plath and Frida Kahlo smoking up; new Android updates; and the jerk who let a tiger loose in the Packard Plant without permission. — the artblog editors
Read MoreLisa Simpson was often pigeonholed as the creative character. Mostly because she had feelings and expressed them. I’d like to know what adult Lisa would have to say about this Jacobin article, “Forced to Love the Grind” by Miya Tokumitsu, detailing the new tyrannical enslavement/evocation of “passion”.
Read MoreI am going to tell you more about the trip — about the street art; the show of Impressionist works of the dealer Paul Guillaume at the Musee de l’Orangerie that is bears comparison to the show of Impressionist works of the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the only Lyonnaise restaurant in Paris, shopping for fabric, Bastille Day and car shares with electric cars!
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