Brilliant! Talk about contesting meta narratives. However, upon closer scrutiny of Emanuel Leutze’s original iconic work, a more complicated relationship emerges between the two pieces. “Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothin’ ta fuck wit.”
“A man walks down the street
It’s a street in a strange world
Maybe it’s the Third World
Maybe it’s his first time around
He doesn’t speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! [...]
In San Antonio “The Day of the Dead” is not as widely celebrated throughout the city like the mass cultural traditions of Halloween. But on November 1-2 in the older central West and South side “barrios,” most Americans might feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
Image: Michael Silver,”Calaveras at San Antonio Texas Day of [...]
I promised Stuart this post much too long ago, and I’m sorry that it only emerges now. Over at Historiann, they had a discussion about a certain installation at Burning Man, called Barbie Death Camp, which is an interesting and strange installation of Barbie dolls all meandering toward an oven. You can find the pictures [...]
Robert Hariman and John Lucaites recently posted the one year anniversary of their fantastic blog, No Caption Needed.
You can read Bent’s review of both the blog and their seminal book by the same title here.
They’re experiencing some “growing pains”, something we are familiar with here.
It’s been a year since we began this blog. We had [...]