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PHOTOS: The Faces Behind Your Favorite Comic Books

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Stan Lee, Irwin Hasen, Art Spiegelman, Comic Book Writers, Joe Simon, Slidewide, Leaping Tall Buildings, Comic Book, Alex Ross, Frank Miller, Video, Books News

Superheros are often maligned as being only for children and geeks; "Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics" (powerHouse Books, $35), ...

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All Things Considered: The Many Talents of Wesley Stace

David Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wesley Stace, John Wesley Harding, William Boyd, Alex Ross, Katie Roiphe, HG Wells, Eugene Mirman, Rick Moody, Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Rebecca West, The Cabinet of Wonders, Arts News
David Coggins

Wesley Stace's eclectic talents make him a hard man to pin down. For over 20 years he's recorded highly literate folk music under the name John Wesley Harding. We spoke recently in Manhattan.

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WATCH: BLOG WATCH> Wagner At War On The Rest Is Noise

therestisnoise.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Propaganda, Classical Music, Nazi Propaganda, New Yorker, Nazis, Gotterdammerung, Opera, Alex-Ross, Richard Wagner, Video, Arts News

The website Wagner Opera has uploaded to YouTube a scene from the 1941 Nazi propaganda film Stukas, in which a clinically depressed fighter pilot hear...

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Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season

ArtScene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cherie Louise Turner, Subliminal Projects, Catherine Person Gallery, Michael C. McMillen, Nicola Lopez, Eva Lake, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Kent Williams, Alex Ross, L.A. Louver, Rena Bransten Gallery, Margarita Nieto, Timothy Siciliano, Joey Veltkamp, Vic Munitz, Evoke Contemporary, Shepard Fairey, G. James Daichendt, Arts News
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ArtScene and Visual Art Source's editors and writers have tabbed some of the top exhibitions throughout the Western U.S.

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SOUTHWEST ART: Top Current Exhibitions in the Southwest (July/August, 2010)

ArtScene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eight Modern, Chris Jordan, Art Santa Fe, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Jason Salavon, HCG Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, SOFA West, Annabelle Sanders, Bert Long, Patricia Mora, Kathryn M Davis, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Troy Schulze, Alex Ross, Austin Museum of Art, The-Santa-Fe-Show, Self and Family, The Dissolve, Hand+Made, Arts News
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Google Isn't (Necessarily) Making Us Stupid

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Yoga, Plato, Don Quixote, Twitter, Gutenberg, Betty White, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Facebook, Alex Ross, Barack Obama, Ipad, Iphone, Nicholas Carr, Youtube, Meditation, Socrates, Snl, Buddhism, Huffington Post, Shakespeare, Media News
Michael Sigman

My own meditation practice -- which facilitates clarity and focus -- has benefited incalculably from Buddhist and other spiritual websites, blogs, lectures, readings, videos and guided meditations.

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A Huge Worry?

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music, New Yorker, Music Education, Football, Generation X, Canadian-Opera-Company, Alex Ross, London, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

The ever wise and articulate Alex Ross of the New Yorker has a disturbing piece this week on his New Yorker based blog. It is not entirely unconnecte...

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