torpedo the ark

Author Maggie Nelson: skilled in the art of making  the personal and the private public and political     I.    Someone recently asked me t...

  Jennifer Montgomery as Marie in The Deadman   (dir. Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, 1989)   "When Edouard fell back dead an emptines...

Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets (1973)  Oil on canvas (281 x 580 cm) [f]     NB: part one of this post (reflecting on selected propositions from ...

  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven  (1874 -1927)   "Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life .. ."   I.    The relat...

Penny Slinger: Exorcism: Inside Out Richard Saltoun Gallery (London)   I.    Sometimes, we need an artist to turn up like the proverbial ba...

Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2014) Photo: Daniel Azoulay / Pérez Art Museum Miami     I.    There was an amusing story in the news a few ...

  Oliver Mellors portrayed by Jack O'Connell in Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) The Tin Man portrayed by Jack Haley in The Wizard of...

Melissa Mesku and the  Ship of Theseus     I.    A correspondent who knows her Greek mythology (and her French literary theory) writes:   I...

Lorenzo Costa: The Argo (detail of a panel painting c. 1480–90)  Civic Museum, Padua, Italy     I.    As everybody knows, the Ἀργοναῦται we...