May | 2015 | ZETEO

Joining the Dead

May 31, 2015 by Ed Mooney

Memorial Day in the States is a long weekend when many of us go to the beach or a park or have a special picnic with friends and family. I ended up at Portland Head Light where the memorials consisted mainly of stones by the overlooks inscribed with the names not of fallen soldiers but of wealthy donors who in the last decade have funded the small park that embraces the Light. Portland Head was commissioned by George Washington. It’s […]

Categories: Ed Mooney, ZiLL • Tags: death, Israel, Memorial Day, philosophy

Secretive, but not Secret

May 28, 2015 by fritztucker

In 2012, one of my best friends from college, Angel Perez, was illegally detained by members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), taken to their ‘black site’ in Homan Square, and sexually assaulted with a pistol, at which point he agreed to help carry out a sting operation on a drug dealer. For years, Angel has repeatedly turned down millions of dollars in settlement money in order to avoid a gag order, in order to tell his story to the […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: civil rights, crime, ethics, History, Homan Square, law, politics, rape, sexual assault, social justice, technology

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At Every Wedding

May 26, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

Not many young adult authors launch their novels with a poem, much less a two-page piece that transcends their target demographic. So I was surprised to find the poem below on the very first page of bestselling YA author Sarah Dessen‘s novel “That Summer.” The poem is by South Carolina author Dannye Romine Powell, an award-winning poet, writer and long-time book editor at the “Charlotte Observer,” who counts a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship among her accolades. More of her beautifully crafted pieces […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, Archives, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, love, poetry, reading, writing

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Beauty and its Insistent Opposite

May 24, 2015 by Ed Mooney

I had the pleasure this week of visiting the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. I hadn’t been in the museum since the addition of a magnificent new wing – a light steel and glass edifice, in places nearly transparent. It contrasts robustly with the gathering steps, fluted pillars, pediment, and tympanum of the original early twentieth century neoclassical building. Inside the new wing, the three-storied walls of glass in the restaurant area allow sunlight […]

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Haring and Koons–At a Crossroad

May 23, 2015 by William Eaton

A Tale of Two Artists’s Careers Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jeff Koons (1955-) were born in Pennsylvania and grew up in middle-class families. Their careers as artists took off in the 1980s, at a time when contemporary art was just beginning to be looked at seriously. It was an exciting moment. The late Marcia Tucker was fired when, as a curator at the Whitney, she exhibited Minimalist artists like Richard Tuttle. One of his works consisted of a few inches […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, New York City

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Renoir, Love

May 22, 2015 by William Eaton

{click for Renoir, Love: Pdf} Harvard’s Fogg Museum does not think of itself as “portrait gallery”—it includes more than “just” portraits. Nonetheless, I am prepared to make the following, likely unprovable, assertion: The percentage of wonderful portraits to total number of artworks on display is greater at the Fogg than at any other museum in the world. Among my favorites is Renoir’s Victor Chocquet, shown at right. Renoir’s reputation as an Impressionist painter is rather in decline. His bathers, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: Eakins, Harvard University, Impressionism, love, male gaze, painting, Renoir

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Love and Self-Knowledge

May 17, 2015 by Ed Mooney

Is self-knowledge something accomplished in solitude, mulling over our past and our life with others – something that occurs on solitary walks or looking out over the sea? Here is a friend and fine philosopher writing about a couple’s coming to know each other: Sarah has been veiled from Chuck for most of the time he has known her. While the veils protected her, kept her from being known, they also made it nearly impossible for her to make herself […]

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Almost Pure Pleasures

May 13, 2015 by William Eaton

At the end of a nature-preserve cove, I saw in the water some dark, complex something. Two box-like shapes, attached to one another. An abandoned part of a car engine? Approaching a little closer, I saw that it was two midsized, black-backed turtles, one clamped on the back of the other. They were rolling in the shallow water, and a stubby leg of the one on the bottom at times waved helplessly, and the one on top seemed at times […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: bicycling, Dr. Zhivago, inequality, money, nature, sex, turtles

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Seen and Felt

May 12, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

Poetry bears witness to events that surround it, sure. But it is not the news. It is not an opinion column either. It dips its slippery toe into telling, showing, and expressing so as to permit each reader to recreate the very event over and over anew and on a personal basis. Such a feat is perhaps simpler to accomplish when the events in question are household, such as a divorce, a child, aging. But when the event relates to the fate of political […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, History, literature, poetry, writing

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Monthly Archives: May 2015

Joining the Dead

At Every Wedding

Beauty and its Insistent Opposite

Haring and Koons–At a Crossroad

Renoir, Love

Love and Self-Knowledge

Almost Pure Pleasures

Seen and Felt