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think-progress: The terror gap, explained

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:08:04 -0700

think-progress:

The terror gap, explained

latimes: hellogiggles: Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:12:08 -0700

latimes:

hellogiggles:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

Happy Friday everyone!

Going through my music library I found the most lesbian song...

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:42:59 -0700

Going through my music library I found the most lesbian song ever written.

I had forgotten how much I love this song.

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:18:25 -0700

I had forgotten how much I love this song.

Incredibly weird developments in the domestic animal kingdom.

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:29:05 -0700

Incredibly weird developments in the domestic animal kingdom.

The Official White House Tumblr: The White House, Tumbling Things

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:03:40 -0700

The Official White House Tumblr: The White House, Tumbling Things:

whitehouse:

We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our jobs. That’s why we’re launching a Tumblr. We’ll post things like the best quotes from President Obama, or video of young scientists visiting the White House for the science…

Will their ever be a hipper administration? I think not.

pitchfork: Flavorwire made a few GIFs to celebrate the 40th...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:25:12 -0700

pitchfork:

Flavorwire made a few GIFs to celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane.

This is amazing.

lalouver: The Drawing Center in New York has just announced an...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:08:32 -0700

lalouver:

The Drawing Center in New York has just announced an upcoming exhibition of works on paper by late artist Ken Price.

Including over 60 drawings produced during his lifetime, “Ken Price: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper, 1962-2010” will be on view June 19 - August 18, 2013, and presented in conjunction with “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (June 18 - September 22, 2013). This will be the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s drawings to date.

To see more drawings by Ken Price, please visit our website for his 2005 “Works on Paper” exhibition at L.A. Louver.

Probably one of my favorite exhibitions during my tenure at the museum.

lalouver: In the current issue of Vanity Fair, David Hockney...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:45:23 -0700

lalouver:

In the current issue of Vanity Fair, David Hockney was the latest subject of the infamous Proust questionnaire featured in every edition. Hockney’s short and direct answers reveal a tenderness and honesty that many interviews fail to capture.

Coming this May, David Hockney’s video installation “The Jugglers” will make it’s U.S. premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view from 22 May - 1 September 2013.

evolutionists: Sylvia Ballhause. Cinemas.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:18:19 -0700

evolutionists:

Sylvia Ballhause.

Cinemas.

nprfreshair: As the Huffington Post points out, Justice...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:01:06 -0800

nprfreshair:

As the Huffington Post points out, Justice Ginsburg wears lace gloves which is pretty rock and roll, no?

Toobin, incidentally, does not address the subject of lace gloves in today’s interview about her.

nprfreshair: For your weekend reading, an essay in the Kenyon...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:20:17 -0800

nprfreshair:

For your weekend reading, an essay in the Kenyon Review — “The Ghost Writes Back” — by Amy Boesky about ghostwriting the Sweet Valley High books while working towards her Ph.D. in seventeenth-century literature. It’s a complicated essay about many things, but at least some of those things include sameness and difference, the nature of ghosts and ghost writing, good writing and bad writing. It just a fantastic read.

There was a whole protocol for trying out. I wrote a sample chapter, and the editors must have liked it, because I got hired to write Book 16: “Rags to Riches.” (Given the state of my bank account, the irony wasn’t lost on me.)

Imagine, superimposed on the gray-and-grainy screen of a floundering, slightly depressed twenty-something, the shimmery outlines of an idealized adolescent world. All drawn—I just had to color it in. I could pick any colors, as long as they were pastel! The characters were already invented. They had “histories,” personalities, but I could add nuances. The plots were already there. Who could have dreamed of such adventures? A plane crash in a Cessna. Hysterical paralysis following a bad break-up. The rich posing as poor and the poor as rich. The tennis star that longed to be ordinary, the ordinary girl that longed to be a starlet. Differences smoothed away by the sameness-machine of narrative.

Amy Boesky was a prof at BC when I was there. Never know about her exotic moonlighting.

entertainmentweekly: Jason Reitman’s next staged reading: an...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:54:12 -0800

entertainmentweekly:

Jason Reitman’s next staged reading: an all-female version of Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Robin Wright, Catherine O’Hara, Maria Bello, Allison Janney, and Mae Whitman. Click through for exclusive details on who’s playing whom.

This makes me ridiculously happy, even if Adele’s dress...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:27:03 -0800

This makes me ridiculously happy, even if Adele’s dress looks like 1970s Britain threw up on her.

manbartlett: the art world according to emoji

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:51:52 -0800

manbartlett:

the art world according to emoji

manpodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:22:28 -0800

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Britt Salvesen and artist Catherine Opie on the occasion of LACMA’s presentation of three Robert Mapplethorpe portfolios: The ‘X Portfolio,’ which features sadomasochistic imagery; the ‘Y Portfolio’ of floral still-lifes and the ‘Z Portfolio’ of nude portraits African-American men.

The manner in which Salvesen installed the show — in stacked horizontal rows — is unusual and smart. On The MAN Podcast, Salvesen explains how she arrived at this installation, and Opie talked about why she liked both the three rows and the color of the walls.

Listen to the program: Download this week’s MAN Podcast or listen in your browser. Subscribe to the program via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See more images of artworks discussed on the show.

newyorker: An Internet firm like Netflix producing first-rate...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:29:09 -0800

newyorker:

An Internet firm like Netflix producing first-rate content takes us across a psychological line. If Netflix succeeds as a producer, other companies will follow and start taking market share. Maybe Amazon will go beyond its tentative investments and throw a hundred million at a different A-list series, or maybe Hulu will expand its ambitions for original content, or maybe the next great show will come from someone with a YouTube channel. When that happens, the baton passes, and empire falls—and we will see the first fundamental change in the home-entertainment paradigm in decades.

Tim Wu explains why the Netflix-produced series “House of Cards” could be the death of cable television: http://nyr.kr/Wo7J8A

My waking view these days.

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:41:52 -0800

My waking view these days.

newyorker: Tina Fey’s sitcom “30 Rock” ends tonight, dammit. I...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:28:09 -0800

newyorker:

Tina Fey’s sitcom “30 Rock” ends tonight, dammit. I haven’t yet seen the finale (I’ll be watching it along with you screener-deficient folks), but I’m genuinely sad to lose my Thursdays with this awesomely dense comedy, which amounted to a grenade made of zingers.

Emily Nussbaum’s farewell to “30 Rock,” from the New York-centric point-of-view: http://nyr.kr/11mufiq

I’ll stop social media-ing about the end of 30 Rock once my beer-buzz wears off. For now, I’ll never forget you, rural juror.

artistandstudio: Pablo Picasso, son Claude and Jean Cocteau at...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:42:46 -0800

artistandstudio:

Pablo Picasso, son Claude and Jean Cocteau at a bullfight, Vallauris, France, 1955. Photo by Brian Brake