Congrats to Paul Krugman! This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, Krugman is an economics professor at Princeton and has done groundbreaking research. We mortals however know him best as the New York Times‘ most consistently excellent op-ed columnist, so what better way to celebrate than read his latest column, on the British bailout plan?
Old School (mostly for our Danish readers). Finally on the Tube: DR’s great documentary on the origins of hip hop in Denmark: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Lidtekstra baggrund her.
New York Times. Michael Pollan, one of the best writers on the intersection of food/culture/politics these days, offers up a stirring policy manifesto.
Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici
The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
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Interview: El-P & Aesop Rock
Click here to read our 2003 in-depth interview with two of New York’s finest.
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Continuous Creation — Titian’s Nuova Natura
On Titian’s aesthetic of the unfinished and Renaissance notions of the subjective.
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Bleed Runner
On Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Also, read producer Charles de Lauzirika’s comments here.
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Damian Marley & Nas Interviewed
The Distant Relatives interviewed on their 2010 tour
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Fantask
Skriverier om butikken Fantask og dens placering i det danske kulturbillede.
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The Miracle in Milan
Review of the 2011-12 Leonardo show at the National Gallery in London
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Hergé and the Order of Things
Hooded Utilitarian column on Hergé’s vision and the necessity of comics criticism that engages deep form
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Bruegel, Rembrandt, Crumb and Cartooning Extended Hooded Utilitarian piece on R. Crumb’s Genesis and the cartoon tradition.
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New Yorker Cartoons: A Legacy of Mediocrity A deadening force at the heart of the art form, smothering the field in bourgeois mediocrity
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Hogarth’s Chicken Fat
An analysis of Hogarth’s rich imagery as both support and counterpoint to his storytelling
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Bellini in Rome
Thoughts on Giovanni Bellini and the grand Rome retrospective.
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Interview: Muñoz & Sampayo
Read our 2001 conversation with the Argentine comics grand masters and Angoulême Grand prix winner(s) here.
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Cézanne’s Card Players
On Cézanne, time, figure drawing, still lives, and the classics
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Jimmy Corrigan’s Spectacular Reality
Article on Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan
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