Monday, June 3, 2024

The obsession with the double: doppelgängers, Jekyll and Hide, Frankenstein, and more

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The double as a literary motif has obsessed writers since the beginning of Romanticism:  Poe, Hoffman, Maupassant, Dostoevsky and Be...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Are aliens just a projection of our subconscious?

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  Is it egocentric to believe in aliens? Our planet is peopled by thinking creatures, therefore we imagine the same of other planets. Aliens...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Paris France by Gertrude Stein is infuriating, simplistic and ... a lot of fun!

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Gertude Stein's Paris France is infuriating, arrogant, simplistic, and ... a lot of fun to read. Her style, bare and repetitive lik...
Monday, March 30, 2020

What should we keep of the new normal?

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People waiting in line with social distancing We got together virtually and talked about how we are experiencing the pandemic, what are...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Not a review: Michael Rakowitz at the Jane Lombard Gallery

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Michael Rakowitz is showing work at the  Jane Lombard Gallery   in an exhibition entitled: Detail of work at the top THE INV...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Not a review: Wheeler at Zwirner

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The title states that this is not a review, in the sense that I try to communicate my personal experience of a gallery event in Chelsea rath...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Barber Shop Chronicles at BAM: infectious? No, more like, healing!

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(the title of the post refers to the fact that so much of our vocabulary that should be positive is in fact negative: infectious, bat...