Culture

Puzzle No. 3371

Puzzle No. 3371 Puzzle No. 3371

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Conflict resolution technique takes time and reflection (10)  6 An elderly relative’s weight (4) 10 Lindbergh and G…

Aug 13, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Eric Garner protest

The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction

The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy

Bicyclist Bicyclist

He wobbles on his bicycle, steadies, threads an s through traffic, clank of gears, a chain around his person, a person around its breath.

Aug 13, 2015 / Poems / Patrick Morrissey

Painting by Apostolos Georgiou.

Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale

Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

New Egyptian capital.

White Elephants White Elephants

As governments have changed in Egypt, the commitment to corrupt grand development projects has stayed the same.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

We are black and alive, still, despite what the pictures say.

Aug 13, 2015 / Feature / Kristina Kay Robinson

Angela Flournoy.

House of the Dispossessed House of the Dispossessed

Angela Flournoy's The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

Trump Speaks His Mind Trump Speaks His Mind

He speaks his mind, but, truth be told, he Should not have dissed that Megyn Kelly. What that made clear to any viewer: The problem’s that his mind’s a sewer.

Aug 13, 2015 / Calvin Trillin

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

This week: a cartoonist-involved drawing!…

Aug 13, 2015 / Matt Bors

José Martí statue in Central Park NYC

Walking New York With Cuba’s Revolutionary Poet Walking New York With Cuba’s Revolutionary Poet

“Culture is as subtle as air, and like perfume more vaporous than visible,” José Martí said in 1884. “But a sign of culture is a desire for it, and this is New York.”

Aug 12, 2015 / Rosa Miriam Elizalde

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