China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Representation of Buddhist hell in the Lung-wang Miao at Yan’an, Shaanxi by Smithsonian Institution on Flickr. Photo by Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954).
trailer for Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, narrated (according to the New York Daily News) by Pynchon himself
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Robert Pogue Harrison on Eve and “natality,” Hannah Arendt’s term for the “initiation of new beginnings through human action”:
Eve was created as a Stepford wife of sorts, with everything provided for her except the prospect of self-fulfillment. The same…
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A late happy birthday to Marianne Moore, born 15 November 1887. (Image from The Pangolin and Other Verse, 1936.)
Check out this video of Mary Robinson, who just came out with a memoir.
as the interviewer says—she’s a “moral authority,” and in the very best senses of both words
29 settembre 1912 - 29 settembre 2012
Cento anni dalla nascita di Michelangelo Antonioni, metà dei quali trascorsi tra le vette del cinema mondiale.
Grazie, Maestro.
work in progress by Ernest Zacharevic
“UNSEX ME HERE”
Robert Longo
1990
Cast bronze
37 x 41 x 22 inches/94 x 104 x 55 cm
