orgtheory.net (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Based on a recommendation from Chris Bertram, I decided to pick up Hubert’s Freaks at the library this week. Turned out to be a great decision. HF is an exceptional book that is both interesting as a biography and as a piece of economic sociology (not that the author intended it as the latter). [...]
Geoff Coupe's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
David Thompson, over at, er, David Thompson , has a nice piece on the work of Steve Schofield and his photographs of British Science Fiction fans who like to dress up in the costumes of their favourite characters. There's a bittersweet technicolor Diane Arbus quality about them, though, like Thompson, I'm not convinced about the spin Schofield puts on them. Frankly, I don't care if they do dress up...
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
I just finished Gregory Gibson’s Hubert’s Freaks (subtitle “the rare book dealer, the times square talker and the lost photos of Diane Arbus”). It was one of those strange books which sounds interesting but then has you thinking you made a mistake in starting, but suddenly hooks you and has you reading to the end. [...]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
newVideoPlayer("/AC_varmints.flv", 506, 423,""); The oddest thing about this clip of adorable CNN unicorn Anderson Cooper flirting with legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is that Coop calls Toobin a "city...
SIVACRACY.NET (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
An essay by Ava Arndt and Julia Lupton On June 22, 2008, our two households hosted bake sales for Barack Obama — along with 12,000 other MoveOn.org supporters at over 700 locations across the country. MoveOn is billing their event...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
If you were in L.A. this past weekend, you know how hot it was. Determined to not be trapped in the heat on Sunday, I decided to go to the Arclight. It was the perfect day to plant myself where I knew there would be air conditioning which made it ideal to see something which I already knew was going to be very long. That’s right, I went to see SEX AND THE CITY. Am I going to lose the respect of everyone...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Filed under: Awards The timing is perfect. He kicked his demons to the curb a while ago, and now Robert Downey Jr. is riding high on great performances and sweet gigs like Tony Stark and Iron Man heroics, plus some Zodiac killing, and extra-furriness with Diane Arbus. And now, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced that he is one of the recipients for a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Joining...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Gregory Gibson's book, "Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus": if provocative elements of the title don't pull you in, then Gibson's fascinating, suspenseful weaving of them will.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
F ORTY IS the last age a woman can be photographed in a wedding dress without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext," says somebody in the new movie version of Sex and the City .
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, a crepuscular, stogie-smoking New York photographer.
Supreme Fiction (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Dara writes: Despite my support of the SATC film, after reading Anthony Lane's New Yorker review, I kinda agree with that esteemed critic. His smooth review convinces me there were some hefty issues with the film. I have always contended...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Totally sick of hearing about Sex and the City: The Movie by now? Heard all the plot points? Read all the spoilers? Does actually watching the movie seem almost pointless? Still want to see it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
{ Never Neutral } (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 — All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. -Dogen, 1200 - 1253 This morning [...]
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Of course, Carrie is all set to have a princess wedding. She is featured in a whipped-frosting Vivienne Westwood dress in Vogue (Candice Bergen as her editor: "Forty is the last age a woman can be photographed in a wedding dress without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext"), and the ceremony is scheduled to unfold, in funky old-world style, at the New York Public Library. Then something very Big happens...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
LONDON - Comprising over 300 works by 19th - and 20th - century photographers, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography will present a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken in cities around the world. Including work by Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee,...
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How can you support someone who won't salute the flag? It is a national symbol and as a presidential candidate he should take pride in everything American.
anonymous - 07/03/2008