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Lights in the Dark and Random Thoughts

December 24, 2014 by William Eaton

  During the holidays one of the pleasures of my childhood was the night when my parents drove us around Sacramento to see the decorated houses. There was one street called “Christmas Tree Lane” with every house in a blaze of lights in strange and wonderful configurations. It was spectacular. I appreciate the creative efforts that these industrious house-decorating artists take to enliven our ordinary landscapes with bright, warm, good cheer once a year when dark descends early.  On my […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, New York City

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"Venus and Mars" by Sandro Botticelli

Mars and Venus and Prose

December 23, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

Prose poetry is in style these days. It’s true. The cutting-edge journals are publishing it, the traditional journals are publishing it, and even the boring ones are publishing it. So, it’s no wonder that a good many poets are writing it. But, not every poet is doing it well. In fact, I rarely come across a prose poem I like. The lack of form seems lazy and bulky to me, and I miss the premeditation implied by well-placed line breaks. […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: art, books, lit, literature, poetry, reading, writing

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“I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus,” and Other Classics

December 20, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link]          [email_link]   For a little seasonal fun this week, I offer you 7 Classic Christmas Songs Greatly Improved by Reversing the Gender Roles from Stylite.com. I appreciate the choice of words for the title, as they are indeed “greatly improved,” but admittedly still playing heavily into gender stereotypes. Don’t bypass the commentary above each video, as that may be the best part. 4. “I Saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus” by The Anti-Queens While I don’t think it […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: art, gender

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Holiday Mix

December 18, 2014 by William Eaton

A sight we have come to dread during the holidays is the invasion of Santas and Mrs. Santas for their annual drinking “pub crawl.” SantaCon 2014 took place this past Saturday, December 9, and, according to news reports, it was supposed to be saner and more sober. It did start out less boisterous in New York City, perhaps because the same day 25,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park to march against Police Violence. These two radically different populations intermixed in […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, civil rights

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Dirty Cookies

December 8, 2014 by William Eaton

  Dust, Dialogue and Uncertainty, an exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York, includes Julia Mandle’s piece Dirty Cookies, a version of a project first conceived in 2008. The Pratt Gallery piece might quickly be described as a long dinner table mostly covered with a large pile of dirt, with, down at one end, some place settings, a bit dirty and offering dirt food. I quote from Mandle’s “Project Summary“: Like many of Mandle’s projects, the inspiration for Dirty Cookies was a news article and […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: art

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Thomas Struth on The Lure of Technology

December 4, 2014 by William Eaton

It isn’t often that one sees at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art an image that shocks. When I first viewed Thomas Struth’s photograph Figure II, Charité, Berlin 2013 (further reproduction not authorized by the subject), no text, except the title accompanied the image, and I spent a lot of time contemplating its subject: a person in a hospital, wrapped and entangled in myriad tubes and machines. Was she alive was? my question. And was all this stuff the result […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Tags: art, photography, Thomas Struth

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Iconic, but of what?

December 3, 2014 by fritztucker

[print_link] [email_link] If a tree falls in a forest and six different news channels capture footage of it, does it matter? The Internet has changed, ever so slightly, the definition of mass media. Major networks still create most of it. Now, however, anybody has the potential to create iconic images if they get enough retweets and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. Recently, a photo of a crying Afro-American boy embracing a compassionate, Euro-American cop at a Ferguson solidarity protest in Portland, Oregon has gone viral, typically accompanied […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, art, children, civil rights, ethics, New York City, politics, race, technology

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For the Holidays: The Phoenix of Xu Bing

November 27, 2014 by William Eaton

  “One-of-a-kind,” “spectacular experience,” “magical,” and “dazzling” are some of the words used to describe the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. These words equally describe the Phoenix of Xu Bing now installed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) until the end of 2014, and, I propose, a meaningful alternative to commercial holiday attractions in New York City. This is the second installation of the Phoenix Project in the U.S. From December 22, 2012 […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Phoenix, Xu Bing

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A tumultuous privacy of storm

November 23, 2014 by William Eaton

  Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end. The sled and traveler stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.   That is the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s two-stanza “The Snow-Storm.” […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, Emerson, poetry, snow, weather

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