The Albatross Around Johnny Depp's Brain
...Apparently Johnny Depp tried to recreate the top picture in portraying Tonto, and produced the bottom picture. Take a minute to observe his interpretation: photos via Entertainment Weekly. Jessica...
Volume 30
...acceleration and its discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can...
Occupy A Bank
...to start sitting down inside those banks. #OccupyLA has already tried this, and members got arrested after trying to cash a $673 billion dollar check to “the people of California.”...
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
Beauty Work and Intrinsic Motivation
...not particularly helpful advice to someone who's trying to make exercise a habit, though, so I tried to remember what got me to the point of workouts being habit. A...
Editors' Note, Vol. 30: Volume 30
...discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can we express ourselves,...
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
Demolition Party
...economic stimulus of consumer culture to urbanization; these shiny new cities that are going up across the country today are like new refrigerators which are designed to break down after...
Death by Twitter
...the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. But though a version of it was present...
Revolutionary Laughter
...novel almost every decade. He was friends with Albert Camus, Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet and, although he wrote almost exclusively about Egypt, was firmly ensconced in Left Bank culture,...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
Achilles 2.0
...his former comrade-in-arms Tihomir Blaskic, who was tried for war crimes at The Hague: …I thought about what I would have said if they had questioned me, how I would...
This Week in Art Crime
...I am the guy responsible for the exhibition, that we have brought shame on the Ukraine people. I tried to explain that we show also the killed [Euromaidan] protesters, but...
Money, Sex and Tweens
...what you want. Or perhaps expand what you want. JC: Not me. I found it really calcified my interests. I imagine that I tried different things for about six months...
Body Image Tips From Plato
...blame this on patriarchal culture, but I’m pretty sure it’s more complex than that. of DeeDeeness? For some weird reason,*** in my mind the Ideal Form of DeeDee isn't characterized...
The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
...much about the products on an individual, something about seeing all of them grouped together on the page vaguely unsettled me. I tried articulating this to a friend, who then...