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Issue 105 Fall 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Glen Seator’s sculptures have been called “desiring-machines”; they are replicated exterior and interior spaces, fragments or full rooms, skewed or not, all of which have a history: social, political and poetic.
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The Francis Dittmer Series on Contemporary Art. Petah Coyne constructs waxen sculptures that hang like chandeliers from ceilings and walls. Her photographs of brides emote a kind of decadence that comes from wisdom, not youth.
>>>Former Yugoslavian Dubravka Ugrešić is a writer known for experimenting with artistic forms, creating “patchwork fictions” in which references to Gogol and Nabokov are interwoven with recipes, quotes from women’s magazine and children’s books.
>>>The fiction of Reynold’s Price, as fellow writer and North Caroliner Caleb Smith understands it, has always been nourished rather than cowed or oppressed by the oldest narrative traditions from the gospels on down.
>>>German film director Michael Haneke likes to describe his films as disturbing; what he disturbs: the viewer’s tendency towards a rote emotional response.
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Award-winning playwrights Romulus Linney and Donald Margulies delighted in trading stories about pitfalls, paths avoided and paths followed—in particular, Margulies’s Dinner with Friends and his upcoming God of Vengeance.
>>>UN Studio has designed train stations, bridges, private residences and museums with a fluid and inconclusive process that strives for universal consciousness. Ben van Berkel started the practice, along with his wife, Caroline Bos.
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