Month: March 2024
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Chiharu Shiota: The Spider Artist Weaving Memory Webs That Captivate the World
Chiharu Shiota, hailing from Osaka in 1972, is an extraordinary artist who weaves vast webs of thread through space with the virtuosity and grace of a spider. Encapsulated within these webs are fading traces and memories (keys to doors long gone, worn-out shoes, wedding dresses, grand pianos…) as if ensnared in the tangled skein of…
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‘American Fiction’ is the wok we needed to cook the woke.
It’s not the same wok as woke. With the former, you cook things; with the latter, not so much. Though, in a way, you do cook things differently. Theoretically, woke thinking emerged to make life in general softer, more pleasant, more bearable, and to spread respect among all, especially in the only correct and claimable…