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Books in 2023

January 10, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Last half of “Bleeding Edge” by Thomas Pynchon 01/06/2023 – Done – enjoyable. Started “White Noise” by Don DeLillo 01/06/2023 – WIP – no affinity with characters so far. Checked out “American Midnight” by Adam Hochschild from the library, 01/02/2023 – not sure I’ll finish it, too depressing. About the years 1917-1920 and the American … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Thinking about Tagged: American Midnight, Bleeding Edge, Don DeLillo, Herbert Gold, Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon, White Noise

Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94

January 6, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like “Wavelength.” New York Times, Jan. 6, 2023 “I am not a professional,” he declared in a statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. “My paintings are done by a filmmaker, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Photography, Thinking about Tagged: animation, Annette Michelson, Canadian, Cecil Taylor, filmmaker, Hollis Frampton, jazz pianist, Jonas Mekas, Joyce Wieland, Ken Jacobs, Michael Snow, movie, painter, photographer, polymath, Richard Foreman, Richard Serra, sculptor, Steve Reich, Toronto, Wavelength

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