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...went to art school and met a brilliant young art critic, Craig Owens—one of the chief formulators of post-modernism in the arts... I heard about the Whitney Museum’s independent study program... and he encouraged me to apply. So I dropped out of art school and started at the Whitney program at 18. I did that for one and a half years. Toward the end of my stay there, I published my first article, which was about Louise Lawler. The following summer, I did my first museum tour...
...cultural output and its form of expression, though, are key. The contemporary Hipster is acutely self-conscious, and this is why Lady Gaga and what blogger Douglas Haddow has termed Gaga-ism are connected. The Hipster is a product of post-modernity unwinding in general culture to the point of constant self-awareness. The Beat-Hipsters were certainly self-obsessed, but they bore an earnestness and sincerity that is impossible if one’s mental energy is overly devoted to fretting over anticipated acceptance of an ironic costume bobble. Life and public existence as a creative endeavor rather than...
...brands like Miracle Whip, Virgin Mobile and Diet Coke in the video medium. The pieces of corporate sponsorship are not snuck-in and normalized, but focal points. Similarly, the self-awareness of multi-lingual subtitles and the reference to rumors of Gaga’s male genitalia are post-modernity’s most glamorous public manifestation in their use of the discourse around the text being part of the end product. And like the prevalence of Urban Outfitters and American Apparel as purveyors of the Hipster v-neck t-shirt, the video and celebrity are the beneficiaries of corporate...
...self-described “post-Americana” group is a logical extension of his experience at the Kennedy School, Khuri explains. “The Kennedy School did a great job of urging me to contribute,” he says. “But I found that working in a bureaucracy turned out not to be the best way for me to achieve that. I wanted to connect on a more direct level, and I found that the best way I could do so was by playing music. If having that one-on-one connection means just...
...overland travel in the early-19th century. We learn of the staple food of travelers in Prussia, “beer soup,” a mixture of beer, egg yolks, wheat and sugar; of a road-tax imposed on greased wheels; and of nights spent in post-stations, a kind of 19th-century motel where one slept in a cubicle with waist-height boards for walls. Through Mrs. Adams’ eyes, we see evidence of the Napoleonic conflict. In Eastern Prussia, she is alarmed by the thinned population, by clusters of unprotected women on the streets, and half...