Culture Shock: Mo’ Tasty, Early Bloomers And Old Town Old-Timers Mo’ Tasty Just when you thought your cup already runneth over, Food MoMA: Pudding Things Places brings you completely real foodstuffs for purely visual feastings. [...] Lisa Barrow \ Sep 04, 2014 Read More (Adrian Toto)
Get Lit: Translation Nation Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage Murakami’s latest effort launches with a death wish. It’s Tsukuru Tazaki’s sophomore year in college, and his four best friends in the world [...] Lisa Barrow \ Aug 28, 2014 Read More
Culture Shock: Reckless Endangerment, A Prison-Theatrical Complex And Vintage Virtues Reckless Endangerment On the heels of an eloquent opinion piece in The New York Times voicing opposition to commercial development in the Grand Canyon (“A [...] Lisa Barrow \ Aug 14, 2014 Read More Big flood = the perfect time for a boat ride? (courtesy of Kevin Fedarko)
Ninja Meets Navajo Code Talker: The Ya Collisions Of Leza Lowitz And Shogo Oketani The Ya Collisions Of Leza Lowitz And Shogo Oketani I think maybe Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani have the coolest marriage ever. The pair not only travels back and forth between homes [...] Lisa Barrow \ Aug 07, 2014 Read More Shojo and Leza, international authors of mystery
Culture Shock: Christo And Jeanne-Claude Have Always Gone Big The year 1962 saw Christo and Jeanne-Claude barricading a Paris street with 89 rusted oil barrels to protest the Berlin Wall, constructed in [...] Lisa Barrow \ Jul 31, 2014 Read More “Orange Store Front, Project,” hand-collaged lithograph with printing, hand collages with aluminum plate, galvanized steel, acetate, cotton broadcloth and brown wrapping paper
Culture Shock: The Nekkid Eye, Hold Still And What Rhymes With Sedition? The Nekkid Eye If you’ve already transmigrated to the spirit plane, artist (and occasional Alibi contributor) Billy McCall’s Less Clothes, More Fun! video installation might not [...] Lisa Barrow \ Jun 26, 2014 Read More More fun indeed (Billy McCall)
Culture Shock: Ipso Facto X-Acto Ipso Facto X-Acto Any way you slice it, nothing’s quite like paper art. Traditional papel picado is a cheerful, humble Mexican papercraft often used to adorn [...] Lisa Barrow \ Jun 19, 2014 Read More “La Nao de China” by Catalina Delgado-Trunk, 2006, hand-cut paper over collage
Get Lit: Sunday Best Artemis Awakening Yes, summer has finally, unequivocally arrived. And yes, the bestseller lists are replete with tomes like Capital in the Twenty-First Century (whose blurb [...] Lisa Barrow \ Jun 12, 2014 Read More
Culture Shock: Poet’s Conclave, Year Of The Horse And The Old Church Artfest Collective Memory In 1969, José Montoya and a band of merry instigators in Sacramento, Calif., cofounded a politically active arts collective called the Royal Chicano [...] Lisa Barrow \ May 29, 2014 Read More
Book Bite: Vintage Beer Vintage Beer: A Taster’s Guide To Brews That Improve Over Time It’s reasonable to start with skepticism. Ask some tough but fair questions. Such as: Why would someone deliberately let their expensive, imported craft [...] Lisa Barrow \ May 15, 2014 Read More