Arts
Performing arts, pop culture, and beyond
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11/19/2009 9:21:28 AM
We don't know much about the New Zealand Book Council, but if this incredible animated promotional film is any indication, it is a council of wonder, beauty, and adventure....
11/17/2009 10:56:11 AM
Printmaker Abigail Uhteg made each of the 35 copies of her latest book by hand at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosedale, NY. The process is documented in a fabulous video....
11/17/2009 10:26:30 AM
The editor of the art journal Esopus shares a few random links at our Alt Wire blog....
11/10/2009 12:01:58 PM
These groups of artists live together and play music night and day. Easily identified by their patchwork clothes and their instruments, they reject social hierarchies in favor of a collective mindset. No, it's not an anarchist folk-punk band, but the Baul musicians of Bengal ...
11/6/2009 12:16:54 PM
Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular Twilight series and its largely female fan base are constantly lambasted by critics. Is it because they’re just a bunch of girls?...
10/22/2009 1:48:40 PM
Jesse Graves uses mud graffiti to protest environmental plunder and the criminal justice system...
10/16/2009 5:31:42 PM
Americans like ethnic food, as long as it’s not too ethnic. We like foreign films, as long as they’re not too foreign. But we don’t widely embrace pop music that is not sung in our tongue…
10/15/2009 5:43:46 PM
Nigerian musician Fela Kuti’s rough edges and caustic humor are on display right away in the 1982 authorized biography Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore, which has been newly republished…
10/15/2009 5:08:28 PM
Photographer Stan Gaz had a boyhood obsession with meteorite craters.
10/15/2009 5:06:50 PM
The Truth Under the Tinfoil Hat
10/15/2009 5:04:13 PM
Get Thrifty, Not Cheap.
10/15/2009 5:02:15 PM
Love Your Gay Brother
10/15/2009 5:00:06 PM
Free Your Culture and Your Mind
10/15/2009 4:58:02 PM
Blowing the Top Off Big Coal
10/15/2009 4:55:04 PM
The Worst News of All
10/15/2009 4:42:46 PM
Microcinemas bring classics and cult films to a passionate audience
10/15/2009 4:40:28 PM
Director Mike Figgis, whose films include Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode, shared his thoughts on the state of cinema
10/15/2009 4:38:32 PM
Apparently we really can’t get enough of a horrendous car wreck.
10/15/2009 4:35:37 PM
Common Bonds and Beats
10/15/2009 4:32:58 PM
Songs of the Dead Pioneers
10/15/2009 4:27:21 PM
A Swedish Folk Sensation Walks into a Hotel . . .
10/15/2009 4:24:54 PM
It’s clear at a glance that the music ensemble conducted by Stanford University assistant professor Ge Wang is no ordinary orchestra.
10/15/2009 4:22:54 PM
Composer Mason Bates’ “symphonic electronica” is not for the easy listener
10/13/2009 5:15:09 PM
Jesse Graves uses mud graffiti to protest the Tamms Correctional Center in Illinois, which is infamous for being both cruel and unusual.
10/13/2009 2:32:06 PM
Hiroshi Sunairi Founder, Tree ProjectUtne Reader visionaryNovember December 2009by Staff, Utne Reader
10/13/2009 2:28:04 PM
Jeff Chang Author, Can't Stop Won't StopUtne Reader visionaryNovember December 2009by Staff, Utne Reader
10/13/2009 11:52:47 AM
David Bacon has made a life of documenting the important, inspiring struggles that rarely make the news, bringing to life the stories of undocumented workers, labor activists, and foreclosed homeowners.
10/13/2009 10:43:20 AM
Lance Ledbetter spent years picking through the record shelves of eccentric collectors all over the country, rescuing what he calls “cultural artifacts” from obscurity.
10/13/2009 10:27:27 AM
Raj Patel is looking for solutions to the world’s biggest problems, notably poverty and hunger, but he’s not satisfied with pat answers.
10/13/2009 10:06:59 AM
Parvez Sharma traveled a broad swath of the Islamic world to film A Jihad for Love, a first-of-its-kind documentary about gay and lesbian Muslims who are struggling to reconcile their faith with their sexuality.
10/13/2009 9:54:23 AM
This poet isn’t content with words on a page—he prefers to work under mind-bending constraints that truly stretch his linguistic limits.
10/1/2009 12:23:09 PM
Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are not given to extensive introspection, but they shared fascinating bits of information in a conversation …
9/25/2009 5:26:35 PM
Is there any redeeming artistic value in the new indie film Trash Humpers, which observes the lives of three fictional cretin-like outcasts who lead filthy and disgusting lives on the margins of society?
9/25/2009 12:55:49 PM
The state mental hospitals of the 19th century often operated within massive, majestic buildings, architectural marvels that have been meticulously photographed by Christopher Payne and collected in his beautiful new book….
9/24/2009 2:37:54 PM
Two years ago, visual artist Collin Sekajugo established an arts center where there weren’t any before: Kigali, Rwanda….
9/18/2009 1:15:40 PM
Antony Hegarty, the achingly beautiful voice of Antony and the Johnsons, has written a desperate appeal on behalf of Iraqis kidnapped, tortured, and murdered over their sexuality and gender....
9/17/2009 5:03:46 PM
A film director/musician interprets birds sitting on electrical wires as “notes” on a musical staff, and creates a charming music video….
9/9/2009 5:22:17 PM
The pedestrian reclamation of Times Square in New York City is a good start for the sake of public art, but it’s not enough....
9/9/2009 3:56:47 PM
Some people can’t see a place without wanting to sketch it out on paper. The first issue of a magazine from the Urban Sketchers network is now available....
9/1/2009 1:56:00 PM
The “Wide Right Turn” decals that grace the backs of trucks don’t actually need to be there, but they are charming...
8/31/2009 12:08:46 PM
A brilliant knockoff on the naturalist illustrations of old....
8/27/2009 1:04:07 PM
The coffee brewing method that our moms used is back, but this time it’s not Folgers in a Mr. Coffee machine: It’s being presented as an artisanal experience…
8/25/2009 4:43:26 PM
World governments may be militarizing biology and other life sciences to make strange and disturbing weapons....
8/25/2009 4:35:34 PM
Idle chicken scratches left on scratch paper can have profound meaning....
8/21/2009 2:55:33 PM
If you were stuck in space, what you do to pass the time?...
8/20/2009 10:57:56 AM
Photographs of urban decay can be beautiful, but they can also be exploitative. A Detroit photographer speaks out....
8/20/2009 10:55:39 AM
Copyright law? Who cares about copyright law? The film Rip! A Remix Manifesto makes the case that just about anyone who downloads media should care…
8/19/2009 4:01:16 PM
A review of the Films of Buster Keaton, Music by Bill Frisell (Songline/Tone Field; on DVD)
8/19/2009 3:59:16 PM
A review of Goodbye Solo (Lionsgate; on DVD)
8/19/2009 3:51:13 PM
Italy’s Neapolitan neomelodic singers break hearts, not balls.
8/19/2009 3:47:45 PM
Review of Nothing Gold Can Stay by the Duke and the King (Ramseur)
8/19/2009 3:44:59 PM
A review of Tell ’Em What Your Name Is! by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears (Lost Highway).
8/19/2009 3:42:46 PM
Review of Curse Your Branches by David Bazan (Barsuk)
8/19/2009 3:23:58 PM
In a city with more than 50,000 taxicabs, the cabbies of Mumbai stand out by hiring designers to decorate their cars.
8/19/2009 3:20:56 PM
The story of an American song catcher
8/17/2009 11:33:07 AM
Faythe Levine spreads the D.I.Y. spirit all over the country with her film that documents the uprising of craft culture....
8/14/2009 3:07:00 PM
We were thrilled to catch wind of the Cardboard Tube Fighting League…
8/14/2009 2:46:13 PM
Pecha Kucha is not your boss’s PowerPoint
8/14/2009 1:17:39 PM
The formula for a fabulous new Dutch internet series is simple: a visual artist is seated at a table with a work of his or her art, joined at the other end of the table by a parent. Awkwardness abounds....
8/11/2009 4:06:59 PM
Museums aren’t just casualties of the current economic collapse, they actively fed the boom and subsequent bust...
8/11/2009 2:41:09 PM
David Byrne has figured out a way to use a pump organ to play the innards of a giant abandoned building....
8/9/2009 7:12:26 AM
When you think of “hair art,” you probably don’t imagine the beautiful, delicate jewelry of Melanie Bilenker, who creates tiny line drawings using locks of her own hair, then casts them into brooches, pendants, and rings….
8/5/2009 10:22:47 AM
New music, independent film, contemporary art, street art, crafts, art photography, plus odds and ends we dig up.
8/3/2009 12:50:57 PM
Using post-it notes and not much else, artist Candy Chang created a public installation meant to meet residents’ needs....
7/31/2009 4:39:37 PM
Helvetica Man is a fixture of national parks, coffee shops, and airports around the world, helpfully pointing the way to bathrooms, elevators, and wet floors. He was not invented by mistake....
7/31/2009 10:27:29 AM
For today’s classical composer wishing to be taken seriously, writing a film score is a step in the wrong direction: Critics tend to snub those who engage in such lowbrow pursuits....
7/29/2009 4:02:47 PM
Neuroscientists are unraveling why a Pablo Picasso painting appeals to the human brain....
7/24/2009 2:35:05 PM
In case you haven’t heard the robotic voice announcing its return, the vocoder is back in a big way. Will the same thing happen for the vocoder’s cousin, the talk box?
7/24/2009 10:38:50 AM
A cool new residency program sends artists into the woods for a week, with just nature and a tricked-out trailer to serve as inspiration….
7/22/2009 2:44:53 PM
When we blogged about rogue taxidermist Sarina Brewer, we thought we had bumped up against the outer limits of the taxidermist universe. We were wrong.
7/22/2009 2:22:12 PM
Font geeks and graffiti freaks, your Paris graffiti taxonomy is ready....
7/20/2009 11:57:22 AM
Rory MacLean’s wistfully merry Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India explores the old Silk Road, known as the “Hippie Trail,” where Allen Ginsberg had posted his existential “Find Thyself, This Way” arrow sign...
7/17/2009 11:26:05 AM
You love fonts, you love cars, and you've always wondered how to marry the two....
7/16/2009 4:46:54 PM
The trend of identity tattoos among Iraqis fearful of becoming an unrecognizable corpse are on the decline....
7/13/2009 5:21:40 PM
Great art is subjective. Bad art, on the other hand, can be identified by a pigeon....
7/10/2009 4:22:07 PM
Tomorrow: Afropop star. Today: Translator at Burkina Faso's international airport. Meet hopeful African musican Hermas Zopoula...
7/9/2009 1:10:00 PM
Artist Vladimir creates unique narratives through the use of a View-Master....
7/7/2009 5:35:44 PM
Nathan Salsburg at the music blog Root Hog or Die has come up with an amazing list of websites and blogs that are posting all kinds of obscure and fascinating music on the web...
7/7/2009 3:56:19 PM
A concert by Nigerian music stars King Sunny Ade and Femi Kuti was everything I expected and more, with Ade’s juju music as vibrant as ever and Kuti’s music just as intense and forceful as his father’s...
7/6/2009 4:29:57 PM
A lament for the intrusion of Flickr culture into the live music experience, and indeed, into life on the whole...
7/2/2009 2:05:21 PM
Delving into the dark world of invite-only film downloading clubs….
7/2/2009 2:02:24 PM
Since 1979, Afghan rug-makers have been weaving war stories. You really have to see this...
7/2/2009 12:52:34 PM
An online archive of firecracker art for. Holiday!...
6/30/2009 1:49:35 PM
A Conversation with Photographer Bruce Haley After 20 years spent photographing conflict, Haley has some practicle advice May June 2009 Jeff Severns Guntzel Utne Reader You wrote the Tao of War Photography, what, ten years ago? Bruce Haley Approximately.
6/26/2009 3:43:09 PM
A Conversation with Poet Philip Bryant about writing, jazz, and the art of Zen
6/25/2009 5:17:25 PM
Our lives are surrounded by small and seemingly insignificant objects that, if we stop and think about them for a moment, were created by designers. Golf balls, barrettes, toothbrushes...
6/25/2009 10:44:12 AM
Portraits Underground A conversation between Utne Reader Art Director Stephanie Glaros and Jason Rothe, photographer for “The Mountain that Eats Men” May June 2009 Stephanie Glaros Steph Glaros I’m speaking with Jason Roth, who is a multimedia journalist and
6/25/2009 10:06:17 AM
Tim O’Brien posted this moving portrait of Neda Agha-Soltan, and Iranians flooded the comments section with heart wrenching and inspiring words…
6/23/2009 4:02:47 PM
Guy Laramée turned a set of dusty old encyclopedias into a gorgeous replica of Petra, one of the world’s best-known archaeological sites....
6/23/2009 11:46:36 AM
Noted designer DJ Stout of Pentagram came up with a novel solution to the new legislation restricting the marketing of cigarettes: Tell the truth….
6/22/2009 5:25:06 PM
If you haven’t heard of Tehching Hsieh, it might be because the artist spent 13 years underground, performing “Thirteen Year Plan,” making art in private.…
6/18/2009 5:46:49 PM
You too can wash yourself with the grease of the gods. Just follow these steps from Make magazine…
6/18/2009 12:14:00 PM
Somali musician Mohammed Abbi Samantar sings and tells his story from in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya....
6/17/2009 5:37:43 PM
What are they listening to in Paris? Classical, jazz, electro pips and boinks, apocalyptic gangster rap from the Paris hoods, gay house, Congolese rhumba, chanson française, Hebrew religious songs, arty hip-hop from New York, Zouk from the Antilles, salsa from Havana...
6/17/2009 2:36:29 PM
French artist Invader is credited with originating “Rubickubism,” an art form that uses Rubik’s Cube squares as the medium for a sort of digital pointillism…
6/16/2009 1:23:08 PM
Yarn graffiti artists leave their knitted and crocheted creations around city streets. These “yarn bombers” are part of an international guerrilla knitting movement….
6/15/2009 12:10:39 PM
Most insect collectors want only two specimens of each species they fancy: a male and a female. Artist Jennifer Angus amasses thousands of bugs at a time for her installations of insect "wallpaper."
6/12/2009 1:30:34 PM
Some people never leave home without their phone or their wallet. Minneapolis artist Sarina Brewer never leaves home without a cooler, a hacksaw, and rubber gloves.…
6/10/2009 1:54:32 PM
California Newsreel (www.newsreel.org) has been a stalwart distributor of world cinema to American schools and nonprofits for almost 40 years, and it’s now opening its rare and essential collection of African film to the general public. Reviews of African Cinema Collection from California Newsreel, The Cove, and A Jihad for Love.
6/10/2009 1:49:16 PM
A child of the Internet goes feral in full view
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