– Arthur Boyd, Figure supporting back legs and Interior with black rabbit, 1973-4 the image is from Arthur Boyd’s ‘caged painter’ series, commenced in 1971 upon his return to Australia after over a decade in England. The year he left Caetano Veloso was recording his own record of exile,

The Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture delivered by David Mamet. – Alistair Cooke (in 1991) Alistair Cooke’s remains were “surgically plundered” in late December, 2005. [New York Times article] – David Mamet, detail of photo by Amanda Edwards Paul Taylor writes a bad review of David Mamet.

Walking into the rehearsal room, possibly with a script in hand, possibly not, flanked by a small group of actors, we are struck – if the room is a familiar one and not itself a complete surprise – by how much is already there, although invisible. The room is not empty. It

A final note: a modernist poetics has haunted these thoughts on “Digital Maoism” and limited its responsibility to complete clarity. Plaguology is of the same coinage as the poetics of a “terrible beauty.” The latter need not only describe the beauty of terror. It is indeed in excess. It might