torpedo the ark

Crowning - a sculpture of the Virgin Mary by Esther Strauss Photo: St. Mary's Cathedral / Franz Wurzinger     I.   As a rule, I wouldn...

  Adapted from the poster for I Am Greta (a documentary film dir. Nathan Grossman, 2020)   I.    Byung-Chul Han says that the idiot has all...

      "You may know your syntax thoroughly and make no blunders in your grammar,  but it takes that and something more to make a great...

Ross Barkan (2017)  Award-winning novelist, journalist, and new romantic rossbarkin.com     According to the American writer Ross Barkan, th...

      I.    Good people always insist : It's quality rather than quantity that matters [1] .   You'll be a much happier and more au...

Byung-Chul Han: author of Non-things , trans. Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2022). Page references given in the post refer to this work.     ...

The Venus of Willendorf [1] Image: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien nhm-wien.ac.at     I.   I recently reflected on how the figure of a woman...

Cover of the exhibition catalogue  published by Harry N. Abrams (2001) [1]     I.    Clearly, Jeff Koons features as a very special kind of ...

  Image credit: Raul Arboleda / AFP / Getty Images     I.    Touching objects is surely a vital activity. But just as green grocers don'...

  Damien Hirst: Expulsion (2018)  Butterflies and household gloss on canvas  (84" diameter)     I.    One of my favourite short poems ...

We make art lest we should perish from the truth ...     I.   I don't know if Muslims, like Christians, believe that God moves in a myst...