With the tornado repairs and the deferred maintenance on the house, and with my having decided to buy and do some middle-class things, I feel I am hemorrhaging money, but guessing it will soon stop. In makeup, there’s an eye pencil I still want, and I still want to start dyeing my eyelashes again. I’m … More Le maquillage
Rigensgade 5, this is where I want to go in Copenhagen, to see his photography. All of it, but in particular the Soviet portraits. Axé.
T. S. Eliot, in The Atlantic, 1954. I got it from SMT. Axé.
In addition to everything else, I must do AAUP business, but what I am doing is writing a piece about magical realism for my own pleasure and instruction. I read an old article by Cornejo Polar about migrant subjects and realized: THAT is also Vallejo’s kind of voice, speaking from everywhere (and not from a … More Vallejo, the migrant
This is such a lovely photograph of the Dama de Elche. She and Cybèle are my favorites. Axé.
Here is a detailed description. And they have that Amerindian number. Note: “The third number was released already in autumn 1942 with Paalen´s essay “Art and Science” about the Goethe-Newton debate on light, adapted to the dangerous imbalance of scientific and artistic notions in the modern world in view of the atomical danger. It contained … More Revista DYN
Words to look up are Menenghello and Minchiate Etruria, a Tarot I think I would really like. I will do this while I get in touch about the blinds and my car key. I am also going to investigate Scenes of Subjection. AND consider it for my other essay. There are more books to investigate, … More Tarot
In my study group we read an interesting paper about this that said it was reformist and not revolutionary. Axé.
Last summer I visited this museum and received its lovely magazine. Sticking with me in particular are the ceramics of Roberto Lugo and John Singer Sargent’s watercolor The Alhambra Vase. In the store, a bronze reproduction of a Chinese owl figurine, eight inches high. ∞∞∞∞∞∞ How to get high evaluations? Old and new suggestions include … More Walters Museum, and student evaluations
Here is the poster for my cousin Alexei Aizenman’s centenary exhibit at the Pushkin House-Museum on Arbat, in Moscow. You should really go if you are in town. In other news Gukira is a good blogger with an interesting post on Freire; I am told he is also the author of the best piece on … More Pushkin House-Musuem 23.VIII-16.IX
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