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On Transcribing the Lyrics to Pop Songs
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Still from Adriano Celentano’s music video for “Prisencolinensinainciusol.” You really can’t...
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Herr Fassbinder’s Trip to Heaven
The prolific, careening career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. FAUST: Joy is not the issue, I give myself to frenzy, to pleasure that hurts most. —Goethe Death stands there with...
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Like Art
Working in advertising gave me the resources to do what I thought was art—with a logo. From the cover of Like Art. Art school is the place you go to learn how to be a creative director, even if you...
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Joanne Kyger in the Review
Photo: Elsa Dorfman. We were sad to learn that Joanne Kyger, whom the San Francisco Gate calls “a leading poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a rare female voice of the male-dominated Beat...
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A History of the Evidence
In 1977, two young artists living in the San Francisco Bay Area, both recently out of art school, published a book of photographs they had found in the files of local corporations, government...
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Very Special Gladnesses
Endre Tót is one of thirty artists whose work appears in “With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies,” a group exhibition devoted to the Hungarian avant-garde, showing at...
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Summers and Swimmers
With a new retrospective, the screenwriter Eleanor Perry gets belated recognition. Still from The Swimmer. The 1972 Cannes Film Festival was marked by protests against Italy’s reigning auteur,...
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To Die, in Effect, for Love: On Gary Indiana’s Horse Crazy
Sex, hypocrisy, solitude, loss, the punitive affinities that swallow the self—these are Gary Indiana’s themes, jingling through his books like money in Balzac. But rumbling beneath the malice is a...
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Edward Gorey Lived at the Ballet
Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library,...
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A Mosh Pit of One’s Own
Fea. Photo courtesy of Blackheart. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf writes in 1929. The same applies to being a musician, in that Woolf really...
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On Transcribing the Lyrics to Pop Songs
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Still from Adriano Celentano’s music video for “Prisencolinensinainciusol.” You really can’t...
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Herr Fassbinder’s Trip to Heaven
The prolific, careening career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. FAUST: Joy is not the issue, I give myself to frenzy, to pleasure that hurts most. —Goethe Death stands there with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Like Art
Working in advertising gave me the resources to do what I thought was art—with a logo. From the cover of Like Art. Art school is the place you go to learn how to be a creative director, even if you...
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Joanne Kyger in the Review
Photo: Elsa Dorfman. We were sad to learn that Joanne Kyger, whom the San Francisco Gate calls “a leading poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a rare female voice of the male-dominated Beat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A History of the Evidence
In 1977, two young artists living in the San Francisco Bay Area, both recently out of art school, published a book of photographs they had found in the files of local corporations, government...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Very Special Gladnesses
Endre Tót is one of thirty artists whose work appears in “With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies,” a group exhibition devoted to the Hungarian avant-garde, showing at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Summers and Swimmers
With a new retrospective, the screenwriter Eleanor Perry gets belated recognition. Still from The Swimmer. The 1972 Cannes Film Festival was marked by protests against Italy’s reigning auteur,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
To Die, in Effect, for Love: On Gary Indiana’s Horse Crazy
Sex, hypocrisy, solitude, loss, the punitive affinities that swallow the self—these are Gary Indiana’s themes, jingling through his books like money in Balzac. But rumbling beneath the malice is a...
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Edward Gorey Lived at the Ballet
Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library,...
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A Mosh Pit of One’s Own
Fea. Photo courtesy of Blackheart. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf writes in 1929. The same applies to being a musician, in that Woolf really...
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