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...artistic practice will need to contribute to intellectual inquiry and help construct new forms of social practice.”Getting to this point will require a greater interest in the arts that encourages involvement in social causes, a tough feat for the smaller student groups that are often behind such efforts. In the end, for both art and social interests, infrastructure and hanging frames are not as important as people power.“[W]e can’t be with rose covered glasses about what art and film and photography can actually do,” Professor...
...reader’s own desire to do the same. His seemingly infinite naïveté parallels our own; his paranoia is ours; and when revelations unfold, they’re for us, not just Chase. But in spite of this gambit, and the inherent ambition behind any setting as complex as this one, Lethem spoon-feeds the reader tropes from contemporary literature instead of developing anything uniquely satisfying, rendering “Chronic City” otherwise insubstantial.The novel begins as Insteadman’s meets one Perkus Tooth, an aging, roving-eyed rock critic and strikingly disparate...
...Losin’ Yo’ Head,” MoF tries their hand at classic rock. “Say Please” features a simple beat and several haphazard attempts at hair-pin transitions and rhythmic shifts that leave the song spun-out and wrecked behind them. The song is also hindered by its even-handed verse distribution; the transitions between singers make the song feel incoherent and contrived. The more-focused “Losin’ Yo’ Head”—with James taking lead vocals throughout—is catchier...
...give a body to ghosts that govern personal relationships.” In this piece, he exemplifies that artistic mission. Though Palma has only depicted an interaction between a hand and the woman, he infuses the photograph with a tension, the implication of an unseen force behind the relationship and an invisible person attached to the hand.Other photographs may not employ surrealism, but still prove evocative; one example, “The light in his eye,” trembles with loneliness. Two empty chairs face each other on a wooden porch, their seemingly hand-stitched seats insinuating that modern...
...such a device in the U.S. In one of the few times police gave chase rather than standing their ground, they were pelted with rocks and pieces of macadam, countering by firing projectiles. In that instance, they arrested one man, pressing him into a crouch with a baton behind the neck...