From a review from Words Without Borders of Inside and Other Short Fiction:
Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women offers a corrective to Western and Japanese stereotypes of Japanese women’s sexuality. The stories in this collection are connected by an exploration of women’s sexual liberation, and provide a female ( Read more... )

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I'm back. And continuing to circle the wagons a bit. I just did the first of probably several rounds of F-list trimming to come. Not that I don't like and respect the folks I've let go, but I need my F-list to be shorter and more intimate right now ( Read more... )

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Personally, I'll be more interested in seeing how Mapplethorpe's polarized black/white racial politics and not-so-veiled racial fetishism (IMHO) play out in Cuba, than in hailing this as some unambiguous "sign of progress." But hey, maybe that's just me ( Read more... )

Apparently, artists (and the organizations who support them) that question our mission in Iraq need not apply.

Artnet News
July, 13, 2005

DRAWING CENTER AT GROUND ZERO -- TIME TO GIVE UP?Is it time for the Drawing Center to give up on its increasingly quixotic quest to find a new home at Ground Zero? The idea of moving the sophisticated, avant- ( Read more... )

but they haven't yet.

From today's brilliant ish:
Pacers, Pistons, and a famous artist who also begins with P!

And on the Eurovision front:

* Moldova: ska pop band Zdob Si Zdub
are favourites.
* Switzerland: have Vanilla Ninja, an Estonian all-girl soft rock band.

[Hmm, the Swiss entry is Estonian and its website has a .de suffix. ( Read more... )

As I mentioned I was going to, last weekend, I attended a panel on the exhibit at the Brooklyn Musem of paintings by Kehinde WileyThe exhibit is exciting. It is based on Old Masters paintings in terms of the stances adopted by the models, but all are paintings of ( Read more... )

And the exhibit is called Ghetto Fab?

Well, hm. This graf-to-gallery idea is nothing new, it's a wheel that's been being reinvented more or less the entire lifespan of hip hop culture, and I'm suspicious of any attempt to gallerize graf that doesn't even allude to Henry Chalfant. But am I jumping the gun here? Anyone know anything about this ( Read more... )

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