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Post Modernism

PHOTOS: Futuristic Places To Stay

HomeAway | Posted 01.02.2013 | Travel
HomeAway

There is no time like the present to live in the future.

Against Michiko Kakutani: A Defense of Mark Helprin

Pietros Maneos | Posted 12.08.2012 | Books
Pietros Maneos

To me, Michiko Kakutani's latest review is emblematic of the ongoing cultural war between those adhering to the tenets of modernity: irony, cynicism, minimalism; and those who obstinately refuse to bow before these pestiferous ideals, those who honor beauty, truth and emotion. Kakutani obviously falls into the former.

Bodies in Space: Leah Yerpe's Very Large Drawings

Daniel Maidman | Posted 11.17.2012 | Arts
Daniel Maidman

I've been a fan of Yerpe's extremely cool -- one might say icily cool -- work since I first saw it in 2009. For me, a lot of what makes art good is the degree of interesting thinking I have in response to viewing it.

Towards Eclecticism

John Seed | Posted 10.09.2012 | Arts
John Seed

2012-08-09-johnseed123.jpg Eclecticism is beautiful because it allows every label, every approach, every style and every work of art to be allowed into the ring of possibilities.

North Korea: The End Game of Post Modernism

Illya Szilak | Posted 07.24.2012 | Arts
Illya Szilak

Little did I know that I was about to visit a country where the manufacture of national identity is not only overtly artificial, it has become a major industry. Going to North Korea is like seeing the mirror used in a magic trick.

Matisyahu's Spiritual Evolution And What It Means For Us

Gabe Crane | Posted 02.15.2012 | Religion
Gabe Crane

While there are limitations in drawing conclusions from our celebrities' lifestyles, Matisyahu's choice does represent an important development in the underlying psycho-spiritual evolution of our time.

LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 10.12.2011 | Arts
Tom Gregory

Art, like language, morphs words and tones to describe the world. It can be a reflective, interpretive, literal, and/or emotional. Important art passes the litmus test of time. It remains in the pop culture lingo to mark the space from whence it came.

The Human Stain on "Sustainism"

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Michael DeJong

In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.

Possibility: An Eight Year Old Meets the Beatles

Zachary Stockill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Zachary Stockill

I remember very clearly the first time I really heard the music of the Beatles. I was eight years old in 1995. The Anthology series was about to be broadcast and I was somewhat baffled, but equally intrigued.

The Most Culturally Radical Show on TV (and Sometimes One of the Cheesiest) is on Fox

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Miles Mogulescu

When I want to spend an hour or two with the most culturally radical show on TV--a multi-racial, multi-cultural program where race, gender and sexual orientation truly don't seem to matter--I watch "So You Think You Can Dance".

Why "Talk" Culture will Destroy the World

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Hugh McGuire

In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani takes on the Internet, remix culture, post-modernism and the technology-induced Decline of Western Civilizatio...

David Shields: 'Plots Are For Dead People

The Millions | David Shields | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

We live in a post-narrative, post-novel world. Plots are for dead people. Novelly novels exist, of course, and whenever I'm on a plane, it's all I see...

Blague d'Art, March 1, 2010

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Peter Frank

Folks, painting is back. And is that a good thing?

The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated

Carter Phipps | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Carter Phipps

Everyone should read Thomas de Zengotita, not because he has the answers but because he's breaking new ground in tracking a whole field of disconcerting cultural trends.

Evolutionary Psychology Under Attack?

Carter Phipps | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Carter Phipps

Some feel that allowing an evolutionary basis for bad behavior is akin to making a Stone Age excuse for current moral failures.