As readers of this blog know, I’ve been troubled by nagging symptoms of surrealism in everyday life. President Bush fills me with the same uneasiness I feel when confronted with the sort of demented-clown figure that populates horror pictures: Chucky, or Leatherface, or the jaunty paleface who appears in \Friday The 13th,\ I think it …
I was in New York last week, mainly talking with groups of NYU arts students about roles for artists in social change. Every once in a while in such milieux, I run into the complacent view that artists are doing good just by being artists. It annoys me when people trot out essentialist ideas of …
I’ve been thinking about elections (not just the current one) because I’ll be speaking on Friday at a panel on “Elections and Democracy” at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. (Check my Web site for information on this, my \Clarity\ reading on 13 October, and other appearances this week in New York City.) The two …
Here it is, handily arranged in a single Quicktime movie a minute or two long.