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"I want to leave home less and less."
As the sixth week of the stay-at-home order in California begins, I realize that I”ve become deranged and must be suffering from a Coronavirus pandemic-induced Stockholm syndrome because I keep thinking: I don”t want the quarantine to end.Outside my home’s bubble is tragedy: Thousands upon tens of thousands of lives lost to this insidious malady, […]
No, I haven"t read all of Proust. Fighting the coronavirus humble brag
David Hockney has painted 10 new iPad works. Barbra Streisand is working on her memoir. On Instragram people are baking bread and working out. Friends are calling to say that they”ve Marie-Kondo”d their homes.And all their getting-things-done is stressing me out.What this is is an epidemic of humble brags.People are knitting and quilting and reading […]
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Studio DRIFT's Freedom Franchise And Drone Art
Art has always had as its schema to make us see. At different times, in different ways, it has called on us to rethink every aspect of perception – what we see, how we see it, how it is seen and how it is rendered; as well as to reconsider the very materials with which […]
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Israel's Holden Caulfield: On Yair Assulin's "The Drive"
YAIR ASSULIN”S The Drive, an award-winning Israeli novel first published in Hebrew in 2011, has just been released in the United States by New Vessel Press, in a translation by Jessica Cohen. It is a slim book that speaks volumes about the current state of Israel.The Drive represents a new landmark in Israeli fiction. Israel […]
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Grammys 2021 Get Fresh
This week’s Grammy Awards Ceremony, the second during the pandemic, made the best of a bad situation bringing a much needed freshness to the awards show.In recent times, the Grammys show have found a successful formula and run it into the ground. The show had pared down the more than 100 awards given as part […]
Reviewing 2020: My Top Ten Books Of 2020
In the beginning of the pandemic I was scattered and couldn”t really concentrate on any sustained reading. However, as the year went on and I reached saturation in my viewing capacity, I turned to books, aided by the discovery that I could easily borrow books online from the Public library, via Overdrive (Los Angeles Public […]