Theodor Adorno

John Carey mentions the Marxist critic Theodor Adorno in his essay, What Good are the Arts? We'll read another key member of the Frankfurt School next week, Walter Benjamin, but if your curiosity is piqued by Adorno here's a link to the full text of his famous collection of aphorisms, Minima Moralia.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1951/mm/index.htm

DUMBO Arts Festival

If you're still in NYC you should check out this event today. Some great young artists showing many different types of work.

DUMBO Arts Festival

Amazing and Cheap Dumplings!

This place has some incredible deals on dumplings. You can get 4 pan-fried pork and chive dumplings for $1, yes that's right, $1 flat - no added tax or tip. For $3 you can get 8 steamed vegetable dumplings. They have lots of other stuff including great soups and tasty sesame pancakes and a greater variety of dumplings!

The location is here!

Read Proof of Vanessa's amazingness here!

Event Sunday Night at MoMA

I might be heading to this myself and thought I'd share for those who are planning to stay one extra night in NYC. This event is on Sunday night.

PopRally is a program of events at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 that features collaborations with artists and musical acts, performances, film screenings, receptions, and special viewings of exhibitions at moderate prices. Visit the PopRally website for more information.

Join us for the world premiere of Chris Cunningham's audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron's "New York Is Killing Me," which will be projected across three screens. This unique event will be preceded by a conversation about the making of the video with Cunningham and Barbara London, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art. Doors and bar open at 8:30; conversation starts promptly at 9:30.

Link Here!

show

This show looks really interesting, the master post-war expressionist painter... drawing?

http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm

It was all st

Hi all,

On Friday I was talking to Dima about an interesting essay:

Here is a link to an Errol Morris post from the NYTimes a-way back. In the essay and interviews Morris Looks into staged news photos and the ethics and politics involved in making captions. -included is a fine montage of 'Toy amidst the Rubble' pictures.

It Was All Started By a Mouse

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-1/

best,

C.U.