Happy birthday, Anton Chekhov(!), great Russian playwright and short story writer, about whom George Saunders wrote: That’s one of my…
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Happy birthday, Alice Neel! Here are some quotes from and paintings by this extraordinary artist: “Art is two things: a…
Claes Oldenburg on Art and Life and Other “Possibilities”
Happy birthday, Claes Oldenburg! 90, today! Here are some of his marvelous sculptures highlights from his wonderful “Ode to Possibilities“:…
Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 1: William Lessard
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Barzakh
The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…
Happy Birthday, Diamanda Galás!
Happy birthday, Diamanda Galás! American avant-garde soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist, and painter. 62, today! Quotes: “It seems stupid when…
Tolerance and Accessibility
OK, well, obviously, anything that spawned Godwin’s Law isn’t going to be the best place to start an intellectual inquiry…
Pop-up Books: An Homage
Last week, as I was picking up some films from the library of my alma mater, the University of New…
What Is Experimental Art?
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words…
