Monthly Archives: July 2015

Tisha B’Av (Giorgio de Chirico City Lamentations)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by zjb

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! (Lamentations 1:1)

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Causeless Hatred (Tisha B’Av)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by zjb
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(Color) Painting Spiritual Affects (Jill Nathanson)

Posted on July 24, 2015 by zjb

Fluid Measure, the recent show by Jill Nathanson at Berry Campbell in Chelsea, is as philosophically interesting as it gets. The paintings are neither abstract nor corporeal, immaterial nor material, spiritual nor physical because they are simultaneously both at once. … Continue reading →

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North East Maryland (Somewhere Over the Susquehanna)

Posted on July 22, 2015 by zjb

A  sweet drive on a hot summer day in north east Maryland. Roads move along green rolling hills past diminutive structures. The catchy barn is bright blue. The little white church on rt. 440 is Episcopalian.

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A Beautiful Little Thing, But Distracting

Posted on July 21, 2015 by zjb
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Thinking Photographs (Robert Frank, The Americans)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by zjb

Do the titular figures refer to the individual people or to the actual photographs? I would hazard the suggestion that you flip back and forth between the two registers, between referent and representation, always. Pictured between 1955 and 1956, The … Continue reading →

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No Alternate Parking Eid Mubarak

Posted on July 17, 2015 by zjb

L’kvod ha’chag (in honor of the holiday) there’s no alternate street parking today in New York. Someone please tell Pamela Geller that this is what sharia law looks like in an American city. Eid Mubarak to everyone!!

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Iran Deal (Skeptical Support, Alternatives, & Part-Whole Construction)

Posted on July 17, 2015 by zjb

What I think about the Iran Deal comes down to my inability to sign on to petitions one way or the other. I guess that means I’m neither for nor against, not a supporter and not a critic, but a … Continue reading →

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Dear #Israel, lets be realistic about the #Iran deal

Posted on July 17, 2015 by zjb
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Pluto (A Religious Question)

Posted on July 16, 2015 by zjb

Love the story, the technological-romance about about a recently revealed faraway object, stone cold in outer space, 3 billion miles away from planet Earth. The story lines attaching to this mission are curious. You can read some of it here … Continue reading →

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