Archive for March, 2008
Playing on Fire
Yamashita Yosuke playing at a beach in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Yamashita Yosuke, a Japanese pianist, recently played an event featuring a piano on fire, on the beach. He played for 10 minutes until the piano fell silent. The idea and images were beautiful. Check it out here.
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Obituary: Miriam Silverberg
Miriam Silverberg, whose new book, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, I was looking forward to reading, died on March 16th. She had suffered from Parkinsons. James Fujii wrote this about her on H-NET: After a long bout with illness, Miriam Rom Silverberg passed away in the early hours of Sunday, March 16, 2008. Miriam spent her formative [...]
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Tibet Intifada?
In light of the recent news coming out of Tibet, Time magazine raised the question of whether we were witnessing the beginning of a Tibetan intifada. The real question is the same one that African-Americans faced as the protests of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. met with initial failure in the US South, that [...]
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Over the weekend, I went to the Shinjo Ito show, which is traveling from Japan and currently on view at Milk Gallery in Chelsea. You can find info on the exhibit here. I had seen the posters in subway stations, a golden Buddha shining in the darkness of the dank New York subway and was [...]
Filed under: Art, History, Japan, New York City | 1 Comment
