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McSweeney’s first ever student short story contest!

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ASLEEP IN THE SKY WITHOUT DYING

A handful of poems for the weekend: a new series of billboards by our dear friend Robert Montgomery are now hovering in the pale skies of Los Angeles, and we can’t think of a more appropriate city to host Rob’s delicate words.
All images by Robert Montgomery

Lost Book Found

“I found connections between the street vendor, Benjamin’s ‘flaneur’, and my own work as an observer and collector of ephemeral street life,” Jem Cohen once said about his 1996 film Lost Book Found, a truly mindblowing, poetic Super 8/16mm flick about city life. Got 37 mins? Well, then watch it right now:

WORDS ON FIRE

Opening tonight on the beautiful premises of AJLArt is a group show of power trio Lawrence Weiner, Ian Hamilton Finlay and one Robert Montgomery – all concerned with words and art.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Montgomery & Lawrence Weiner
22 March – 26 April 2014

AJLArt
Potsdamerstr. 98a, 2. HH
10785 Berlin

ALBUM MAN

Andrei Tarkovsky’s intense films, though numbering only seven across his almost quarter decade career, have cemented his place as one of cinema’s master craftsmen. Meditative, intimate, and often opaque, the films lack nothing in compelling narrative nor symbolic density.  Those not fond of slower films can still wonder at his meticulous composition, baptized by [...]

A POEM FOR THE DAY

FUNHOUSE

Peter Pan (or for that matter, Marina Abravomic) is not the only one getting the Bob Wilson treatment.  Working with Dissident Industries Inc, theater’s hallowed maverick, Robert Wilson has constructed video portraits–or caricatures?–of an odd population, including stars such as Isabelle Huppert and Brad Pitt to a…horned frog and Boris the porcupine (above).  Though the stylistic [...]

Mack & Cheese

Since Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) turned 20 this weekend, let’s start this week with some rap news: That guy who played Michael Lee in The Wire has apparently been calling himself Mack Wilds for a while, and though his R&B-type stuff is in parts cringeworthy, at least he also features what any Mac(k) should [...]

QUICK DRAW

You read in doodles the automatic writing from daydreams. That is to be the philosophy behind Akira Horikawa’s 1000Drawing Project. For five years Horikawa’s regimen of drawing out daily impressions, oneiro-ventures, chances encounters have reaped a thousand images of the funhouse delirium. Fantastic, erotic, and sometimes eerie, with blank-eyed humans stacked and arranged [...]

BEETHOVISION

While the craft of classical music courts notoriety for its mathematical complexity, its interpreters often express themselves in literary rambunctiousness and visual cues, relishing in matching timbres with colors, flourishing upon movements hippos and dancing flora a la Fantasia.  Floating above the soup of sentiments, Jorinde Voigt charts soundscapes according to an invented emotional notation, you [...]