“Emmaus operates at such high intensity that all three times I set the book down—twice to make coffee, once to eat a small lunch—my eyes took minutes to readjust, so flat and muddy and standard definition did the world around me appear by comparison.”
ART.
President Obama has announced 2012’s recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal. Awardees include Joan Didion, Anna Deavere Smith, Renee Fleming, Ellsworth Kelly, Tony Kushner, Alain Toussaint, George Lucas, Frank Deford, Jill Ker Conway, Marilynne Robinson and Robert Silvers. A pretty impressive list, for sure.
And I would be remiss if I didn’t give a shout out to my old boss from BackStory Radio, historian, digital humanities visionary and president of the University of Richmond, Ed Ayers, who is among the recipients of the National Humanities Medal. Couldn’t imagine a more worthy person or nicer guy.
Interviews with Didion, Deavere Smith, Kushner, Toussaint, Robinson, and Silvers.
YAY JOAN DIDION!
Dancing Dead Leaves by Yunfan Tan
Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight? Batman has, but surely the fallen leaves that have given their lives annually for a few thousand millennia know that feel as well, though Yunfan believes that need not be a saddening sacrifice: looping the withering process and turning it into an endless dance, the leaves’ way of saying this isn’t goodbye… just we’ll do this again next year.
Pokemon Travel Posters by Alice Mongkongllite
Paolo Fumagalli
‘In the land of the blind’, 2009, mixed media
‘Real life’, 2010, mixed media
‘Love will tear us apart’, 2009, mixed media
‘Precarious thought’, 2008, mixed media
Source: http://paolo-fumagalli.com
Polly Morgan - Receiver, 2009
The city of Agueda, Portugal has once again decorated some of their streets with colorful canopies of umbrellas
(by Patrícia Almeida)
Source: https://vimeo.com/66115264
Erin O’Malley
Source: http://www.erin-omalley.com