Word: maximation
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Sometimes books serve as pathways to the pleasures we are incapable of obtaining in real life: Flying and spells for readers of Harry Potter, hot and easy women for readers of Maxim, and, for me, a good meal. This summer I got my first taste of financial independence—and of being broke. I realized that exorbitant meat prices meant that I was going to become a de facto vegetarian, a horrible fate for someone whose truck back home bore the bumper sticker, “I didn’t claw...
...canvas of Yue dressed as a merry Roman Catholic Pope sold for $4.28 million in London. That record was shattered last month when Execution, a work depicting maniacally grinning figures in a Tiananmen Square-like setting, netted nearly $6 million in another London sale. Riffing on Deng Xiaoping's maxim "To get rich is glorious," Yue's paintings capture China's exuberant love affair with consumerism. But even as he also satirizes his countrymen's headlong race to make money, the native of Daqing, a grim oil town in China's northeast, doesn't view his shiny new millionaire status...
...small but lethal sub-group of the female population who live to dominate and abuse men. The book is co-written by Mary Cleary, the (female) founder of AMEN (a support group for male victims of domestic abuse) and Roy Sheppard, a writer for Loaded (the British equivalent of Maxim, but with toplessness). If this combination demonstrates anything, it’s that the only unique aspect of “That Bitch” is its demographic. While most self-help books cater to an obvious niche, this book aims at the group of men who are both misogynistic...
It’s not every day that hand-quilters in Idaho share a maxim with a group known for its slogan “Never Wear Panties to a Party.” Or that the maxim traces its origin to an article published in an academic journal. But such is the unusual history of a phrase described by 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a discussion of her most recent book, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday night. In the book, the titular...
...explains. “And I’ve been struck by how many people, you know, kind of jaded from the contemporary art world, come in and say ‘oh my god it feels so fresh.” Proctor expands the seemingly trivializing maxim of Fluxus—the notion that “anything can be art and anyone can do it”—by explaining its central themes in terms of contemporary society. Rather than limiting art to the elite, Proctor says, Fluxus aims to renegotiate the position...