Project Challenge: Week 5
Note: I started this last week, after my run of Saturday mornings with the high school students had concluded. On the last day, I didn’t try to introduce new material; instead, I tried to consolidate some of the fundamentals I had worked on in the previous weeks: concrete language, drawing playfully on the unconscious, listening [...]
Diebenkorn
I just discovered Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes (an Arts Journal blog) & wanted to recommend it to anyone with an interest in contemporary visual arts. I found Green’s blog because I had begun checking out Arts Journal after finding that cultural critic & book reviewer Scott McLemee’s blog Quick Study was hosted there. McLemee, [...]
Does Libertarianism Cause Brain Damage?
The comments to this article at Inside Higher Ed would suggest as much. Later: See also this remarkable series of brain-damaged responses to Sean Carroll’s (very mild) critique of the right-wing online link dump Arts & Letters Daily.
Questions for the Take-Home Midterm in My Modern American Poetry Course
Instructions: Choose two of the first four questions and write a clearly organized, extended paragraph in response; aditionally, everyone must answer question 5.
Articulate the relationship between alienation and the modernism of Pound and Eliot. Use specific quotations to illustrate your general statements.
Describe the speaker’s relationship to traditional systems of religious belief in Wallace Stevens’ poem [...]
Indian Dinner, Kashmiri Style
I don’t know much about Indian food other than that I like to eat it; I’ve had a couple of Indian cookbooks for a while, but only this year began really trying to cook from them. Saturday night, I made Kashmiri style lamb kabobs in curry, potato raita (which I had never heard of until [...]
More Winter Birds
Snowing this morning, but yesterday was sunny. The pine grosbeaks — looks like four pairs — were joined by a flock of evening grosbeaks. I saw a pair of mourning doves that have been around all winter scuttling around under the feeder; big flock of goldfinches with some red polls mixed in at the thistle [...]
Very Cool Music
With an interesting backstory. Check out Dengue Fever — Cambodian rock music. I had heard something about the band last week on one of NPR’s news programs & today Terry Gross did an interview with lots of music that I heard while drive to work. Immediately ordered the new CD, Venus on Earth. So, go [...]
Starting Out Late
I was talking to my friend A. at dinner last night about getting older as an artist & about the way age & reputation interact in the culture of the arts. A. is a sculptor. We started out by agreeing that in the current artistic culture, one has to “make it” at a fairly young [...]
Collage No. 4 / 4a
These two pieces are opposite sides of the same page in the handsewn book Carole helped me make & in which I have been making all my collages. I’ve actually made thirteen so far, working my way almost to the end of the book’s first signature (of three). If you click on the images [...]
Winter Birds
Right after going out in the snow to refill the feeders, I saw two pine grosbeaks, which I haven’t seen previously this winter. Also, large numbers of redpolls have been coming to the thistle feeders. Then there are the usual chickadees, nuthatches, & woodpeckers. Having the birds flying around outside helps make the long winters [...]
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