Mormonism is a relatively new American religion with quite a few weird and outrageous practices. Magic underwear? Check. Magic plates? Check. Murder? Check. In their new novel The Blood Doctrine, writers (and father and son team) Ryan Poole and Ross Poole look, via 288 pages, at the discarded Mormon practice of killing someone so they may atone for their sins.
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MRKT READS: THE BLOOD DOCTRINE BY RYAN POORE & ROSS POORE (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure on March 28, 2013 at 12:53 pm
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WHY IS TILDA SWINTON SLEEPING IN A GLASS BOX AT THE MOMA (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure, Humor, Uncategorized on March 23, 2013 at 3:48 pmWhy is actress Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Has she squandered her acting and modeling fortune trying to be the female David Bowie? Did Manhattan run out of hotel rooms? Is this some weird fetish? Is she homeless?
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SHEPARD FAIREY’S GOING WHERE NO OTHER STREET ARTIST HAS GONE BEFORE: SPACE (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure on March 22, 2013 at 11:06 am
Shephard Fairey’s going where no other former street artist’s gone before: Space. The entrepreneur was commissioned by nonprofit organization CASIS (the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) to create patches to be worn by astronauts on ISS ARK 1, launching in September and ending mission in March 2014.
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SOLANGE INTERVIEWS MICKALENE THOMAS FOR OPENING CEREMONY (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure on March 20, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Solange and reigning Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas chopped it up recently for Opening Ceremony. The two creatives talked about music, fashion, art, inspiration and collaboration around Thomas’ Brooklyn Museum and Boston ICA shows, and True among other topics. Excerpt below.
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MRKT READS: RAQUEL CEPEDA’S MEMOIR BIRD OF PARADISE (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure, Latino on March 13, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Raquel Cepeda’s first memoir “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina” is a must read for anyone intetested in hip-hop and Latina indentity. Released last week by Atria, the over 300 page hardcover gives us insight into the cultural and philosophical make up of the award winning journalist, mother of two and Washington Heights, NY native.
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MRKT READS: SARA ROSEN’S THE KINGDOM OF ETERNAL NIGHT (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure on March 12, 2013 at 10:44 amSerialized in 39 parts, and reminscent of early 19th century authors (Dickens for one) who serialized their work in newspapers and magazines before packaging, “The Kingdom of Eternal Night” by Miss Rosen mixes drugs, sex, violence, and degradation with the spoils of a lost generation during the tail end of 1990s New York.
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LADYBUG PIN UP COMES UPTOWN FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH (PHOTOS)
In Arts & Cutlure, Latino on March 7, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Alina Vargas is the owner and founder of LadyBug Pin Up, the first and only photo studio in the Dominican Republic that specializes in 1950s pinup photography, a genre that launched the careers of old school celebs like Betty Page and Betty Grable.
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DAISIES: A VISUALLY STRIKING & BANNED CZECH FILM (ESSAY)
In Arts & Cutlure, Film on March 7, 2013 at 11:21 amThe film opens with a drum beat and trumpet, army style. There are alternating clips of a mechanical wheel in motion and bombs dropping. Creating a feeling of disjointedness and of harriedness. Something is happening and has been happening. This is the basis of “Daisies”.
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TROPICAL PIGEONS: WHO KNEW (PHOTOS)
In Arts & Cutlure on February 9, 2013 at 10:56 amIf these guys were around, they’d redeem pigeons in NYC. So beautiful!
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DID DAVID HAMMONS PRESAGE TRAYVON MARTIN WIRH “IN THE HOOD”? (DETAILS)
In Arts & Cutlure, News on February 5, 2013 at 9:39 am
Trayvon Martin would have been 18 years old today had he not been murdered by George Zimmerman in Florida last year. Martin, like all black men in this country, if we are to believe the racists, looked like a criminal, appeared to be in a place where he didn’t belong, posed a threat to the way of life of someone who took the law into his own hands.
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: THE PHOTOGRPAHS OF PAUL SCHEGGENBURGER (PHOTOS)
In Arts & Cutlure on February 5, 2013 at 9:03 amUsing a spare room in his two-bedroom Vienna apartment as a studio, Paul Schneggenburger set up black sheets on a mattress and lit a string of Christmas tree lights to create stunning long exposure images of he and his partner sleeping. The result is haunting and cool portfolio/exhibiton which opens today, and will run through March 8, at the Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna. More images below.
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DOUGLAS SIRK’S VISION OF SUBURBAN STRIFE STANDS FIRM AFTER 60 YEARS (ESSAY)
In Arts & Cutlure, Film on January 29, 2013 at 2:42 pmUsing surfaces of reflection Douglas Sirk took a nothing of a story, a suburban American melodrama, and created a picture steeped in color and reflection. This suburbia in Sirk’s vision is a rich palette in blues and greens. People are seen by others and, in turn, see themselves through mirrors, the glass of a blank tv set and in windows in All That Heaven Allows (from 1955), a Sirkian psychological drama. Neighbors and friends turning on one of their own who doesn’t turn out to be one of their own.
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