Jokowi’s Way Jokowi’s Way
Can Indonesia’s charismatic new president solve the slow-burning crises of the world’s third-largest democracy?
Sep 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney and Saskia Schäfer
Headphones Headphones
The French Revolution vanishes into rain. The cafe where Camille Desmoulins jumped atop the table and roared is closed. So too the one grocery store in the Adirondack town. Three years fade into centuries of raised voices. When I think “of my childhood” what am I thinking? Spiro Agnew’s widow died. Everything a function of stochastic patterns this rain also obeys. Can’t you hear it the unpitched wave soaking the spruce? Can’t you hear them screaming? Morton Feldman said pointing below the Berlin pavement stones. One deafens to live till you’re deafened to all. I’m canceling all the noise my earthened ears bring me.
Sep 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Maureen McLane
The View The View
How Michael Bloomberg turned architecture into a sixty-four-ounce Coke.
Sep 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Ferguson’s Anthem Ferguson’s Anthem
How “Fuck the Police” came to narrate the town’s humiliations and violations.
Sep 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons
A solo Koons exhibition, Danto wrote in 1989, was “a vision of an aesthetic hell.”
Sep 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Back Issues and Arthur C. Danto
The Haus of Maus The Haus of Maus
Art Spiegelman’s twitchy irreverence
Aug 27, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Hope Against Hope Hope Against Hope
Jeff Koons and the art of blissful idiocy; Kara Walker’s art of subtlety.
Aug 27, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Science as Salvation? Science as Salvation?
Marcelo Gleiser wants to heal the rift between humanists and scientists by deflating scientific dreams of establishing final truths.
Aug 27, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Saler
The File This Time The File This Time
An excerpt from Victor Navasky's The O'Dell File reveals the story of the civil rights movement's 'unsung hero' who has been wrongly written out of the pages of...
Aug 24, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
How the White House Tapes Sunk Nixon’s Presidency How the White House Tapes Sunk Nixon’s Presidency
In his new book, John Dean finally offers definitive answers to the questions “What did he know, and when did he know it?”
Aug 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener