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More on Don Draper & Frank O’Hara
Take a look at "Mad Men: Don Draper’s meditations" by Brad Frenette, and Liz Barrett’s piece from the Examiner (posted July 27), which concludes: << At the end of the episode we see Draper…
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Ed Cox, Liam Rector, et al. (Terence Winch)
I had intended to cover much more ground this week, guest-blogging on the BAP site, but it’s funny how time slips away. I would have pointed readers to my friend Toby Thompson and the…
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The Poetry of the Peace Corps: How It Is [by Mark Minton]
Ed. Note: Next week we will be running dispatches from current PCVs — Peace Corps volunteers — in Mongolia. Here’s a poem in their honor by one who knows them. — DL How It…
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Elizabeth Sewell & Tacit Knowledge (Terence Winch)
Last week, The New Yorker ran a piece by Jonah Lehrer called “The Eureka Hunt,” about attempts by scientists to explain “the insight experience,” those “moments of insight” that lead to problem-solving breakthroughs. The…
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Ad Reinhardt at the Guggenheim
“Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting” remains at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, guggenheim.org, through Sept. 14. from Holland Cotter’s review in today’s…
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Ophelia Takes a Powder
Willa Cather lifts the epigraph for her novel A Lost Lady (1923) from Act IV, scene V of Hamlet. Ophelia, leaving the stage, says, << Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies,…
