“Babies Are Born to Dance, New Research Shows” is the headline of a recent report in Science Daily: “Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech.” Data like this connect with key issues about mind-body integration. Music seems to be central to every […]
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Two images, the first taken on a walk yesterday near my home in Illinois. This is the northern part of the state in early spring. The second is one of my favorite Pissarro landscapes, Chestnut Trees at Osny, painted in northern France circa 1873. That coincidence makes me happy.
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My four-page essay “Post-Postmodern Art” was translated into Serbo-Croatian by Alma Causevic. The essay was originally published in The Newberry Manifesto in 2001 and is also available in English in a re-print edition with images of the relevant works [pdf].
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I’ll be giving a talk at the 2011 APEE conference in April. My title is “Cameron Hawley, Henry Kitchell Webster, and Populist Capitalism in Literature.” Here is the abstract: In the early and middle part of the twentieth-century, Hawley and Webster were strong-selling authors of novels that dramatized themes of business ethics and political economy.
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I recently watched Marty for the first time. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, and it won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture along with three other Oscars, so I figured I should watch it. My five-sentence summary: Marty’s gonna run a fine butcher shop some day. Lonely Marty finally meets a girl who’s a
[Warning in this litigious age: Humor ahead.] Those of us with artistic sensibilities often find it a challenge to communicate (and commune with) our revolutionary artistic credos using totally inadequate bourgeois concepts. So my comrade in arms, George Plumley, sent me a very helpful link: The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version]. The results are in.
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In a Japanese mood, on a still, moonlit night, near the end of autumn. Not for nothing Did the red leaf fall.
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