Anima Mundi is Latin for “the shortest Godfrey Reggio / Philip Glass collaboration”—the third of their four “musical nature documentaries.”…
This is the book I’m most looking forward to this year
And it’s a reprint, and I already own the original: It’s that good.
Announcing the Summer 2011 Issue of Requited
The Summer 2011 issue of Requited is now online. It features: fiction by Josh Collins, Jess Upshaw Glass, Suzanne Scanlon,…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies—Extra: Ranking Woody Allen
My last movie talk with Jeremy (about Midnight in Paris) made me want to rank Woody Allen’s films. Jeremy of…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)
[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s…
Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 1
[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
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…