A Summer Fête: The New Inquiry's First Annual Summer Benefit
...invite you to our first annual summer benefit, for hors d'oeuvres, music and an open bar to enjoy the sunset on the Sackett Farms balcony. The event will feature music...
Inquiring Minds
...the child of infancy and the person forming at five, that is a vast difference. Are the profoundest reaches of the imagination beyond language? R: Yes. See: music. M: yes....
Skin Feeling
...beautiful story I know about Bird was told by August Blume: “There was this musician’s girl who had a bad case for Bird’s music. She left her fiancé to follow...
A Dark City
...parks and the architecture, of the astounding culture and the museums. Then he adds, I am searching the complicated web of the Moscow metro lines to remember more things....
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Things to Come
...music, Western musicians like P-Funk and Sun-Ra. So there’s that, it’s a Western form of writing, and science fiction has to come to Africa in that regard. But I’ve always...
Red Holidays of Genius
...everyday habits. All of this discombobulating, disordering, and unmooring they believed advanced a risorgimento, a wholesale remaking of Italian thought and culture. "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and...
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
The Pitfalls of Indie Fame
...sophisticated interpretation of primitive music, vaguely akin to Nick Hornby (but less funny and with more looping). 4. I have no idea what these stories are supposed to be about....
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Opening Reception: Yto Barrada & DJ /rupture @ Walker Art Center 11/21
...Yto Barrada In conjunction with the exhibition An Album: Cinematheque Tangier, join artist Yto Barrada and special guest DJ/rupture, referred to as “a thoughtful pipeline for music from...
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...novelty,” then they aren’t people who could threaten her artistic credibility; they are people who overtly don’t give a damn about music. Haters no longer police the essence of a...
Weed
...far behind, Andrew Beccone of the Reanimation Library digs into the archive for the hippies, scientists, and peddlers of moral panic of 20th century weed culture. In the reviews section,...
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...the gap between what a buyer is promised with a beauty product and what she actually receives; the gap our culture has created between being the smart girl and the...
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
...Further Reading Hillel Schwart, The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (New York: Zone Books, 2014). Linda, Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and other essays (New York: Harper...
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We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films
...Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema . MIT Press, 2011. Inness, Sherrie, ed. Geek chic: Smart women in popular culture . Springer, 2016. Lady Science is an independent...