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The Issues 2024: Why the Labor Movement is So Important to Americans
"For the next few weeks, Literary Hub will be going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Each week at Lit Hub we’ll be featuring reading lists, essays, and interviews on important topics like Income Inequality, Climate Justice, LGBTQ Rights, Reproductive Rights, and more. For a better handle on the issues affecting you and your loved ones—regardless of who ends up president on November 6th (or 7th, or 8th, or whenever)—stay tuned to LitHub.com in October. ... Today we’ve gathered the best stories published at Lit Hub about one of the most important issues affecting Americans: the right to stand together for better working conditions. With an introduction from Kim Kelly, the author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. ..."
When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986)
"Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who penned the tune 'Hallelujah'— which was covered by Jeff Buckley, John Cale and just about everyone else under the sun — he was also at varying points in his colorful life a poet, a novelist, a law student and a Zen monk. Well, you can add to this list guest star on Miami Vice. Yes. Miami Vice, Michael Mann’s decade-defining crime series that somehow made stubble, pastel colors and Don Johnson cool. ... You can see him and some truly breathtaking examples of ‘80s fashion in the clip above. Miami Vice had a habit of casting music icons. Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, and Eartha Kitt also appeared in the series. But, unlike Cohen, they didn’t act in French. ..."
Miami Vice had a habit of casting music icons. Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, and Eartha Kitt also appeared in the series. But, unlike Cohen, they didn’t act in French.
Below you can see a montage of 20 rock stars who appeared on Miami Vice during its run.
Appearing on the episode “French Twist,” Cohen plays Francois Zolan, a French secret service agent who is up to no good. Though he’s in the episode for only a couple of minutes and almost all of it on the phone, Cohen just manages to ooze menace. You can see him and some truly breathtaking examples of ‘80s fashion in the clip above.
Miami Vice had a habit of casting music icons. Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, and Eartha Kitt also appeared in the series. But, unlike Cohen, they didn’t act in French.
Below you can see a montage of 20 rock stars who appeared on Miami Vice during its run.
Appearing on the episode “French Twist,” Cohen plays Francois Zolan, a French secret service agent who is up to no good. Though he’s in the episode for only a couple of minutes and almost all of it on the phone, Cohen just manages to ooze menace. You can see him and some truly breathtaking examples of ‘80s fashion in the clip above.
Miami Vice had a habit of casting music icons. Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, and Eartha Kitt also appeared in the series. But, unlike Cohen, they didn’t act in French.
Below you can see a montage of 20 rock stars who appeared on Miami Vice during its run.
The Trump Voters Who Don’t Believe Trump
"One of the more peculiar aspects of Donald J. Trump’s political appeal is this: A lot of people are happy to vote for him because they simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will. The former president has talked about weaponizing the Justice Department and jailing political opponents. He has said he would purge the government of non-loyalists and that he would have trouble hiring anyone who admits that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. He proposed 'one really violent day' in which police officers could get 'extraordinarily rough' with impunity. He has promised mass deportations and predicted it would be 'a bloody story.' And while many of his supporters thrill at such talk, there are plenty of others who figure it’s all just part of some big act. There is, of course, evidence to the contrary. During Mr. Trump’s term in office, some of his autocratic rhetoric did become reality. ..."
NY TimesA Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin
"The stories that a country tells itself are just as critical to its functioning as its army, its laws, its borders, and its flag. Where did the country emerge from, and where might it be heading? Such questions of national mythology are especially fraught in the United States, still relatively young in the world, big, rich, powerful, multiethnic, and operating on a set of profoundly contradictory ideas. That it might be possible to make sense of American political division by naming those myths and interpreting the news of the day through their filter is the guiding ambition of Richard Slotkin’s exciting and detailed new decoder ring of a book, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America. ..."
Culture of Jamaica
"Jamaican culture consists of the religion, norms, values, and lifestyle that define the people of Jamaica. The culture is mixed, with an ethnically diverse society, stemming from a history of inhabitants beginning with the original inhabitants of Jamaica (the Taínos). The Spaniards originally brought slavery to Jamaica. Then they were overthrown by the English. Jamaica later gained emancipation on 1 August 1838, and independence from the British on 6 August 1962. Black slaves became the dominant cultural force as they suffered and resisted the harsh conditions of forced labour. After the abolition of slavery, Chinese and Indian migrants were transported to the island as indentured workers, bringing with them ideas from their country. The official language of Jamaica is Jamaican Standard English, which is used in all official circumstances in the country. In addition to English, there is a creole derivative called Jamaican Patois (pronounced patwa) which is the common dialect among Jamaican citizens. ..."
Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
amazon: Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment by Sylvie Patry, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
Edouard Manet - The Railway (1874)
“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots
Waiting Hours for 3 Minutes in the Criterion Closet (Well, Van)
"The hottest event at this year’s New York Film Festival isn’t a film at all. It’s a van. Parked next to Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the mobile version of the Criterion Closet — a tiny space stocked with the prestigious DVDs and Blu-rays of films in the Criterion Collection — attracted a line that wrapped around the block. It was a chance for festivalgoers to enact their own version of the Closet Picks videos, in which celebrities like Bill Hader, Ayo Edebiri and Willem Dafoe visit a product-filled closet in the company’s Manhattan office. They pick out their favorite titles and evangelize about their choices while not so coincidentally on tour promoting their latest projects. (Dafoe’s haul included Luchino Visconti’s 'The Leopard' and the actor’s own 'The Last Temptation of Christ'; Edebiri left with Wes Anderson’s 'Bottle Rocket,' among other titles, and Hader’s selections included the western 'My Darling Clementine.') ..."
Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution on Zanzibar) - Siti Muharam (2020)
Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
Every Falsehood, Exaggeration and Untruth in Trump’s and Harris’s Stump Speeches
"With Election Day fast approaching, former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are accelerating their campaigns in battleground states and honing their closing arguments to sway voters and mobilize support. Two recent speeches by the candidates — Mr. Trump in Las Vegas and Ms. Harris in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — offer a glimpse at how their approaches and messages differ. Though their speeches in the next month will likely vary — Mr. Trump’s especially, given his habit of ditching prepared remarks for preferred tangents — they are expected to follow the same familiar contours. Here’s a fact-check of their speeches from two rallies in September. ..."
What the Supreme Court Can Learn From a 14th-Century Italian City-State
Lorenzetti’s “The Effect of Bad Governance.”
"... The governance of that republic was so fair-minded and so respected that the Sienese people had frescoes made to honor it. The frescoes, painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, still can be seen today on the walls of Siena’s city hall, the Palazzo Pubblico. This month, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition opens that showcases art Lorenzetti and his peers made during this flourishing moment in their city’s history: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350. But to see Lorenzetti’s frescoes and absorb their civic lesson you must travel to Italy and stand in the room where they are painted. I did so, by accident, many years ago. I have never forgotten. ..."
Met Museum - Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
Laphams Quarterly: The Renaissance of City-States
amazon: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
Arnolfo Shows the Plan to Enlarge Florence (detail), by Giorgio Vasari, c. 1564. Palazzo Vecchio Museum, Florence.
'Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black’: Public Enemy’s Daring Album
"The making of Public Enemy’s fourth album, Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black, had hit its stride. Recorded primarily at The Music Palace studios in Long Island, the album found Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, the S1Ws, Gary 'G-Wiz' Rinaldo, and the Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk lighting the studio on fire with blazing socio-political commentary and heart-thumping production. Then disaster struck. Parked outside of a Soho studio, longtime Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee was the victim of a robbery. The thieves made off with the bones of every track they’d been working on, bringing an abrupt halt to any progress they’d made. ..."
2009 May: Public Enemy, 2011 July: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 2012 February: Fear of a Black Planet, 2012 August: Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black, 2012 December: A Dozen Pivotal Moments in the 30 Year Career of Public Enemy, 2014 June: "Prophets of Rage" (2011), 2015 February: The Noise And How To Bring It: Hank Shocklee Interviewed, 2015 May: Give it up (1994), 2015 September: Shut'em Down (1991), 2018 June: White Heat Can’t Melt Black Steel: Public Enemy's Nation Of Millions Revisited, 2023 June: ‘Nation Of Millions’: Why Public Enemy’s Masterpiece Cannot Be Held Back
Brooklyn Museum at 200 Celebrates Beauty and Art’s Hidden History
The
Brooklyn Museum’s reinstalled American Art collection includes, from
left, Joseph Stella, “The Virgin”; Emma Amos, “Flower Sniffer”; Kenzo
Okada, “Flower Study”; Loïs Mailou Jones, textile design, 1928,
reproduced on wallpaper by Flavor Paper.
"At 200 years young, the Brooklyn Museum, the second largest art museum in New York City, has begun celebrating the bicentennial of its founding. And it’s doing so in characteristic fashion — meaning in ways that make traditionalists crazy. It is emphatically re-emphasizing what it has, basically, long been: an institution with the heart and soul of an alternative space enclosed in the body of a traditional museum. And it does so with two large-scale season-opening projects. One is a complete rehang and rethink of its American art galleries, filtering centuries of art from two hemispheres through a post-Black Lives Matter lens. The other, less radical, is a community-based roundup of new work by more than 200 contemporary artists living and working in the borough. Let me wedge in some history here. ..."
The American (Art) Study in the Brooklyn Museum offers alternate histories, and lenses, on artworks, updated with ongoing interpretation.
How to Make Poetry Comics
Judge Unseals New Evidence in Federal Election Case Against Trump
Apples, Clogs and Pottery: Parees Celebrates Asturian Identity
Marat Morik. Faro
Marat Morik. Faro
Viennese coffee house culture
Murder Ballads by Various
"100 track collection of vintage Murder Ballads, songs that have evolved from British & European Folklore, murders & tragedies to American outlaws & gangsters... featuring Folk, Blues & County icons such as... - Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell, Bob Dylan, Brownie McGhee, Burl Ives, Champion Jack Dupree, Charley Patton, Charley Pride, Earl Johnson, Ethel Waters, Johnny Cash, Josh White, Kid Bailey, Lead Belly, Lefty Frizzell, Long 'Cleve' Reed & Little Harvey Hull, Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group, Marty Robbins, Mike Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Red River Dave McEnery, Roscoe Holcomb, Sippie Wallace, The Louvin Brothers, Woody Guthrie - a sub-genre of the traditional ballads, make up a notable portion of traditional ballads, many of which originated in Scandinavia, England, and lowland Scotland in the premodern era. In those, while the murder is committed, the murderer usually suffers justice at the hands of the victim's family, even if the victim and murderer are related. Perspectives are numerous. ..."
N.Y.C. Streets Won’t Be Like This Forever (for Better or Worse)
Herald Square in 1986.
The subway in 1979.
Walter Benjamin Warned Us Against the Illusions of Capitalist Progress
Membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
2015 September: In praise of dirty, sexy cities: the urban world according to Walter Benjamin, 2020 September: On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre), 2020 November: When Waking Begins, 2021 May: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (1969), 2022 April: The Passages of Walter Benjamin - Judith Weschler (2014), 2024 August: One Way Street (1928)
Israel Strikes Lebanon Again After Killing Hezbollah Leader
Silk Roads
A career in three acts: The three movies that define Ingrid Bergman
Runaway Jury - Gary Fleder (2003)
Mayor Is Defiant as He Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud
Was Roy Lichtenstein a Plagiarist?
"Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most famous modern artists from the United States. There is no doubt that his comic book style made him one of the most well-known artists of the last century. However, over the past few weeks and months, the talk around Lichtenstein been more about his appropriation of the work from comic artists and less about his impact on the art world. The reason for that is the release of a new documentary entitled Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. Though released in November 2022, the documentary has been getting a great deal of media attention in the recent weeks, including The Guardian, CBR, Artnet News and more. Though I’ve long been familiar with the allegations against Lichtenstein, I was curious to see if the documentary provided any new information or at least new arguments in favor or against the artist. ..."
Lichtenstein and the Art of Letters
Roy Lichtenstein: Pioneer Or Plagiarist?
YouTube: Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation - OFFICIAL TRAILER, Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation 1:18:34
2012 July: Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, 2013 December: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Donates Shunk-Kender Photo Trove
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