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  • RACISM ACCUSATIONS NOW? - IMAGINE IF HE BECOMES PRES!

    If the Democratic Primary is any indication of what is to come as it relates to the issue of race and racism, then hang on to your hat because the general will be all about racism. If charges of racism are being leveled at Democrats, by other Democrats, then just multiply this by 100 once the general election between Obama and McCain swings into ...
    Posted to Trailhead by G_222 on April 25, 2008

  • Moderated criticism & an alternative

    I think Pinsky was trying to be funny. People who already knew the answers to the questions might have appreciated the humor, but I can understand how his flippancy might have annoyed others. A person who is unused to reading poetry would not find simply reading those poems helpful at all. I think sme sort of analysis was deifnitely in order, but ...
    Posted to Culturebox by amourpropre on April 17, 2008

  • Spencer

    When Spencer first start out and did his single person environmental nudes they were fantastic! Then he started adding more and more people. Was it some kind of drunken dare that just kept got out of hand? My wife seems to think that they are color images of the holocaust. (Sorry if I upset anyone) I do not think that is what he was trying ...
    Posted to Art by JohnRoyPhotography on March 10, 2008

  • The Sopranos in the Tradion of ...

    I don't think that The Sopranos is any particular novelistic, rather it is in the tradion of the ''daily soaps.'' I think all of its great themes are taken from ''As the World Turns.'' Seriously, one Tony's mother died, the show died with here. Foolish writing and VERY bad acting (with one or two exceptions) were the hallmark of the later ...
    Posted to TV Club by edmalloy on March 10, 2008

  • Yikes

    I'm glad I'm not in a profession that sees writers telling me I ought to have retired because I couldn't get hit by pitches the way I used to. Lay off the guy, and hope your writing skills don't deteriorate, even as you continue to publish.
    Posted to Sports Nut by shap on February 26, 2008

  • Don't Mistaken Your Eggs For Just Eggs

    Don't Mistaken Your Eggs For Just Eggs: Why some critics can't understand the Avant-garde This contribution by Slate's architecture critic presented some of the newest projects under construction by Herzog and De Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas amongst others, in the increasingly high profile cities of Abu Dhabi and Beijing with a ...
    Posted to Architecture by push on February 3, 2008

  • synchronicity

    has anyone else noted how nicely this dovetails with Saturday's Undercover Economist, ''How Facebook Is Like Ikea They get their customers to do the work—and to enjoy doing it.''? http://www.slate.com/id/2182149/
    Posted to Culturebox by gzuckier on January 23, 2008

  • Fetishizing authenticity

    Both SFJ and Carl Wilson are fetishizing a particular type of authenticity, because that whole upper-middle class college-educated yuppie thing is just as authentic as the rest of it. They both perpetrate the kind of thinking that keeps music criticism from evolving significantly from the early days of gonzo journalism, which was obsessed ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Paula26 on October 19, 2007

  • Guston.

    Guston's work fails in its visual ghastliness and profound lack of visual interest. His work is just awful design. He is significant in that he is probably the only wildly successful expressionist painter in which all of his work is objectively ugly. Bacon, Pollock, Dekoonig, Twombly, Kline - all were brilliant designers and aestheticians, even ...
    Posted to Art by Pi6 on September 6, 2007