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Museum, Inc.

April 13, 2014 by William Eaton

Responding to my interest in the financial roles played by fine art (e.g. how it is used to launder money and how museum shows are used to maintain or increase the value of art collections), an art historian friend recently lent me Paul Werner’s Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2005). Werner shoots from the hip, at times with dazzling, witty results, and at times leaving a reader (or this reader) scratching his head and wishing Werner […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, art museums, democracy, finance

“Your actions are making me uncomfortable!” And other ways to respond to street harassment

April 12, 2014 by William Eaton

Just on the heels of last week’s post regarding Leah Green’s reverse street harassment video, comes Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s write up in the New York Time’s Art section this week, An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste. The artist’s most recent project is just one more creative attempt to bring attention to the overwhelmingly commonplace problem of street harassment. Her posters, wheat pasted on walls around the country, feature faces of young women accompanied by […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR

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Surveys and Statistics

April 11, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

There was a brief post on the Women and Hollywood blog about the Cannes Workshop focusing on women filmmakers which initially seems positive in light of years past where women were completely absent from the festival (a petition was circulated in protest for the 2012 competition where no women directors were present). However I couldn’t help but think of Lexi Alexander’s conversation at the Athena Film Festival where she discussed her blog post about women directors in Hollywood and lamented […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender

A taciturn candidate for Mt. Rushmore – Part II of III

April 10, 2014 by William Eaton

(This is the second of three reviews of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America. In Part I (April 03, 2014) – Steinbeck writes about travel and nature. Part III (April 17), “The Hunger to be Somewhere Else,” is about Steinbeck’s observations on the restlessness of the American character.) Steinbeck’s use of hyperbole, self-deprecation, ridicule and satire makes us laugh. His humor yields understanding of our national character. About the Yankee preference for getting to the point, no more and no less, he writes of […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: literature, travel

The Example

April 8, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

This will be my third and final post on Polish Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, featuring pictures of her work framed by rural scenes from Colombia’s eastern plains. The poem in the photograph is about examples and is itself a clear example of why Szymborska is a master. Please click here and here to read the first and second posts, respectively. Simple poetry, when it is done right, is like the swift movement of a very sharp knife. It is elegant, terrifying […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

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Young and Old: The Odd Sides of the Sandwich Generation

April 7, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Scholars have a name for the twentieth-first century adults that get caught up in the care of their elderly parents and younger kids. They call it the “Sandwich Generation.” Claude Berri’s film The Two of Us (1967) offers a tender portrait of the sides of this group. Claude, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, and Pepe, an old anti-Semitic veteran, are temporarily pushed out of the lives of working adults and forced to live together. Initially, the odd couple seems to belong […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, education, ethics, film, French, movies, sociology

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Girls Gone Wild: Reversing the Roles of Street Harassment

April 5, 2014 by William Eaton

It is difficult to pinpoint the origins of my interest in gender relations, but one of the most prominent memories that launched my self-awareness of being a woman in this world was when I was cat-called on a street corner when I was in 9th grade. The incident was so specifically unique to my identity as a female and to my physical body that it forced me to begin considering the differences that I was bound to face simply because of my […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR

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Forgiveness: Truth & Reconciliation

April 5, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Today’s Reading – about images taken in Rwanda. Portraits of Reconciliation in the New York Times Magazine. KARORERO, SURVIVOR: “Sometimes justice does not give someone a satisfactory answer — cases are subject to corruption. But when it comes to forgiveness willingly granted, one is satisfied once and for all. When someone is full of anger, he can lose his mind. But when I granted forgiveness, I felt my mind at rest.” The article (and images) leave me speechless. – Jennifer Dean

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: New York Times, philosophy, politics

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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found” – Part I of III

April 3, 2014 by William Eaton

This is the first of three reviews of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America. In Part II (April 10) Steinbeck uses humor to look into the American character. Part III (April 17), “The Hunger to be Somewhere Else,” is about Steinbeck’s observations on the restlessness of the American character. So said John Steinbeck of himself. He was also talking about a defiant, independent streak in the American character. The Nobel Laureate (1962) was writing about the nature of travel in his […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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