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....
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...
Our Fellow Travelers
...entire screen with all the gestures and grace of a sweaty black club. At times, especially during the genius pajama-party scene, when that paleo-twerk classic of D.C. go-go music, “Da...
Blind Ambition
...assisted lost strangers and contrived clever board games to play with the town's other blind residents. Music enchanted him. He attended concerts and joined music societies. Often ringing through the...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...for her answer. “Libby?” he called again. By that time he realized he could not even hear the sound of his own voice above the music coming from the radio....
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
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...
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
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....
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....
Sunday Reading
...meet my fellow protesters, I hear people emerge from their balconies and the music starts. If you do not live here, I wish I could properly convey to you what...
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...
“My Working Will be the Work:” Maintenance Art and Technologies of Change
...that support a public culture of innovation. In an interview for Artforum , Ukeles talks about how two of the most famous Minimalist artists of the 20th century, Richard Serra...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
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,...
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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...