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– Isaac Ilyich Levitan’s portrait of his friend Anton Chekhov. Levitan greeted Chekhov with, Are you there, crocodile? Levitan 1860-1900 I went home and fell asleep trying to read The Brothers Karamazov. Oh dear, oh dear. He sits downstage of his desk. So long-winded and indelicate. Too pretentious. Writers like

The best tickets in town at the moment are … [Moscow, February 1998] meditations on the classics clog the vacuum into which new writing might have rushed since 1990. This lack of creative nerve is typical of what is called freedom; but while Russia waits for its new agonies to find

– an aboriginal walking Jesus outside the MCA blesses you Sydney was hosting two major events during our visit, 12-19 July. The series of ‘Jesus Walks’ statues placed in small groups, usually trinities, around the city seemed to serve as the intersection between the two and suffered from the same strange

1. durational – time – Tim Etchells provides this note on Forced Entertainment’s durational performances. KA MOUNTAIN and GUARDenia Terrace, staged in Iran by Robert Wilson and The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, took 7 days. Wilson was incarcerated on drugs’ charges during the rehearsal period. Artists and writers, Henry Miller

Semele is beautiful. God falls in love with her. Even her own brother is in love with her. However, he can’t compete with God. Polydoros’s jealousy, not detailed here, is a potential subplot, a license taken with a familiar story. No matter that it is incestuous, it is

– Marcel Duchamp’s drawing, the only one in the accompanying notes for the Large Glass, in Box of 1914, entitled To Have the Apprentice in the Sun, on musical manuscript, and duly signed, Marcel Duchamp, 1914 Anarchy is the bomb, or the comprehension of technology. Jarry puts forward a curious