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Kurt Schwitters
Portrait of Kurt Schwitters by El Lissitzky, 1929. GOODBYE KURT SCHWITTERS by Matt Gonzalez “I use any material the picture demands.” Kurt Schwitters, 1920. Today marks the conclusion of an important Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) retrospective, the first in the United … Continue reading
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OMNIDAWN POETS: ALICE JONES
By Alice Jones: Parting the grass to find snakes We wanted up and they went down wandering into the core they always wanted to go there, it’s the journey you never pretended to take inward, fruitful and winding Cradle the … Continue reading
How Did We Get Here? Politics in the Age of the Koch Brothers and #OWS
Here’s a video shot at the University of California-Davis. It shows Lt. John Pike of the UC-Davis police sauntering up to students associated with the Occupy movement and pepper spraying them, before backing slowly away in a heavily armed phalanx … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OMNIDAWN POETS: MAXINE CHERNOFF
A BED ON FIRE By Maxine Chernoff the smiling assassin isn’t a dream what is embodied asks us to listen beyond rooms the doctor has scissors the hour, confessions a lingering fable serves up its ghosts intention burns like any … Continue reading
INSURGENT ANTHROPOLOGIES: OCCUPY WALL STREET AND THE HARD TASKS AHEAD
The Occupy Wall Street movement is one of the most significant developments on the American left to have emerged in years. An important victory has been won by the fact that the movement has already shifted American public discourse to … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OMNIDAWN POETS: MICHELLE TARANSKY
A STUTTER, FOLLOWING By Michelle Taransky A stutter, number after number, apologies, the resemblance of the forest To the axe’s handle, one tree, how many lions can be carved from it, Whose hand you held at the investigation, the funeral, … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: TOM HOLMES
Photo: “Wine Never Blinks” THE FIRST PAINTING By Tom Holmes I had no urge except to sleep with her in the cave, but I felt sympathy. I cared. I sensed intelligence in a crevice. I saw life. I saw a … Continue reading
