WEEKLY EMAIL: MAY 06, 2010
FEATURED THIS WEEK : MICHELLE HAUSER
The Leisure of Looking: A Pedestrian View in a High-Speed Era
Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons (adapted for film by Orson Welles) glides us through the quixotic fashions of the turn of the century. As trolleys replaced the horse drawn carriage, only to be overtaken by the streetcar and the automobile, Tarkington observes that "the faster people were carried, the less time they had to spare."READ MORE
ELLIOTT EARLS
The Sentient and the Bag of Meat
Like the canary in the coal mine, there's much that can be learned from careful observation of design school culture today, where students can easily be grouped into one of two categories: the Sentient and the Bag of Meat. Elliott Earls rants against the latter, students dead from the neck up — and the embodiment of consumerist attitudes towards learning.READ MORE
STEVEN HELLER
Home Is the Sailor, Home from the Sea
My oldest friend never knew his father. Leigh was three when his dad was killed in Korea, his remains never to be recovered and shipped home for burial.READ MORE
POEM OF THE WEEK
"Describing Paintings"
"Describing Painting" a poem by Adam Zagajewski from his new book Eternal Enemies.READ MORE
RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED
Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth CenturyScott Minick & Jiao Ping
The State of AtaMike Mandel & Chantal Zakari
Folk PhotographyLuc Sante
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