The Art of the Interview: Huey Newton
Huey Newton is interviewed on William Buckley's Firing Line
Un(der)known Writers: Frank B. Wilderson, III
An excerpt from Frank B. Wilderson, III's Incognegro, a "memoir of exile & Apartheid"
This Week in Art Crime
An art thief steals for the love of art; a museum cashier gets a harsh sentence from an art-loving judge; half of all art in circulation is forged
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
Long before she made Wayne's World, in 1979 Penelope Spheeris made a documentary about LA punk's first wave.
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 11, 2014
The state loves robots, it puts them in the ocean and sends them into space, they hang out with Obama and they get drivers licenses, robots are cool and great and everybody loves them.
The History of Debate: James Baldwin Vs. William Buckley
James Baldwin and William Buckley debate whether "The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro."
Un(der)known Writers: Clarice Lispector
"I don't humanize animals because it's an offense—you must respect their nature—I am the one who animalizes myself."
The Art of the Rebuttal: Frederick Douglass
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."
This Week in Art Crime
A vigilante white-washes a famous piece of street art; A professor is ejected for crowd-surfing at a classical recital; ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) held its annual Art Crime conference in Central Italy
Black President
By cramming two blockbusters into a single screen, J Hoberman made White House Butler Down, the ultimate in late-Obama cinema
Un(der)seen Cinema: Experiments in Terror
Horror makes a natural ally with film and video art.
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, June 27, 2014
The great thing about robots is how they're all so nice and cuddly
Ladies First
A queens-themed crossword puzzle
The Art of the Rebuttal: Katherine Dunn
There is another way to look at the Tyson Bite affair. Try this. The bites were against the rules and should be penalized, but they were understandable and even justified
The Art of Data: Literary Cities
The frequency with which the names of American cities appeared in print over the last two centuries
Un(der)known Writers: Aimé Césaire
...that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms...