The New York Times: “The Making of an Iran Policy”. Roger Cohen on the Obama administration’s Iran policy, its major players and the challenges they face. A fascinating look behind the scenes by an informed observer.
Writings of Perry Anderson. I was only vaguely aware of the distinguished historian and sociologist before Jeet Heer recently called attention to some of his writings. Extremely well-informed and widely read, his dissections of modern European history from a leftist point of view carries both epic sweep and richness of detail. Check out, for example, this analysis of the development of German society, politics and economy over the last decade or so, or this compelling and depressing flaying of the Italian left. More can be found at the New Left Review, The Nation and the London Review of Books.
The Shat at his Peak. And finally, to offset the frivolity of this post, here’s William Shatner. Surely a reason why the internet was created. Here’s the source material by the way. (Thanks, Richard!)
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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