Arts – Commonplaces

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…]

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…]