The Daniel Libeskind-designed addition to the Denver Art Museum, which opened in 2006, doesn’t count as “new” anymore. It seems to have settled into its home near the State Capitol building, dug in, maybe, because it reminds me of an armadillo, bronze-plated and glowing in the sun. It has that peculiar snout, though, [...]
“Reality cannot stand too much wakefulness.”
America could use a Jenny Diski.
Joan Didion, Annie Dillard and Janet Malcolm exercise a comparable ruthlessness, waged against received opinion on subjects of comparable range, but they are not as unrelentingly unreserved as Diski. America cannot abide too much wakefulness, which is why I resist sleep. And Diski, post-empire British [...]
We stopped measuring our heads in the mirror long enough to do a little online investigating. (One of our number spent the day with his head pressed against his full-length mirror attempting to disprove the contentions of Major Scientists that the image his eyes were seeing in the mirror was half the size of [...]
The display windows of Anthropologie at 11th and Couch in the Pearl are filled with reading matter —that is, books considered as matter. Books that have been cut in half or thirds, very raggedly, with a band or crosscut saw, the pieces folded back against the spine and stapled or screwed together with bold black [...]