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In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap between perception and judgment: If I look out of the window and see men crossing the square, as I have… more ›
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I attended 46 theater productions this past year, all of them in North Texas. Later this week TheaterJones will publish my year’s highlights list, in which you’ll be able to see which of these productions I named the best. But… more ›
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We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I think, and our editor challenged us, critics and audience members… more ›
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When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to have exclaimed, “New information for me.” If, like Dalí, fisting is new information to you, then artist William E. Jones‘… more ›
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Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly by this passage: Whenever she [Lily] “thought of his [Mr. Ramsay’s] work” she always saw clearly before her a large… more ›
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As many books about the subject can attest, performance art calls into question passed-down notions of identity and subjectivity. At one extreme, the art attempts to dislocate (if not outright erase) identity. Think of Ron Athey’s staged physical obliterations at… more ›
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Else Lasker-Schüler’s novela The Nights of Tino of Baghdad came to me a couple of weeks ago. It’s free to anyone who subscribes to the Rixdorf Editions newsletter, and it’s only in PDF. (Click the cover above to follow the… more ›
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“A figure dressed in white, walks along the white line in the middle of the highway. He becomes visible only when sporadically lit by the headlights of on-coming cars.” From a Jack Goldstein performance, 1971. I barely remember a time… more ›