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Narrative

Two friends from Brooklyn — "… both marveled at early Ingmar Bergman movies." One of the friends' "humor was inspired by surrealist painters and Franz Kafka." Wikipedia— "Most of Marvel's…

Princeton's Christopher Robin

The title is that of a talk (see video) given by George Dyson at a Princeton land preservation trust, reportedly on March 21, 2013.  The talk's subtitle was "Oswald…

Veblen and Young in Light of Galois

Another in a series of figures illustrating Desargues's theorem in light of Galois geometry: See also the original Veblen-Young figure in context.

An Education

For little Colva … The Mother Ship : .  .  .  . For more light, see "Merton College" + Cameron in this journal, as well as … An Education Leonardo…

Midnight in Paris

Surreal requiem for the late Jonathan Winters: "They 'burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars,' as Jack Kerouac once wrote. It was such…

R.I.P.

Naked Art

The New Yorker  on Cubism: "The style wasn’t new, exactly— or even really a style, in its purest instances— though it would spawn no end of novelties in…

Dante Prize (continued)

For the title, see posts of March 25, 2013. For little Colva … a tune from November 2005 and a New York Times  review.

Caution: Slow Art

"Of course, DeLillo being DeLillo, it’s the deeper implications of the piece — what it reveals about the nature of film, perception and time — that detain him."…

Art Wars (continued)

This Way to the Egress: Click images for some background.