Archive for December, 2008
“Breakdowns” & The “Maus” that roared (or Art Spiegelman through the looking glass)
By Tom Teicholz at 25 December, 2008, 10:41 pm
Art Spiegelman, the cartoonist whose graphic memoir, “Maus,” won a Pulitzer Prize, was in town recently to promote a reissue of “Breakdowns,” a collection of his underground comics work first published in 1978.
As Spiegelman pointed out to me, his name in German means “Mirror Man” (mine means “Pond-wood”) — and revisiting “Breakdowns,” now subtitled, “Portrait [...]
The Grammy Museum: The Culture We Keep
By Tom Teicholz at 12 December, 2008, 3:25 pm
The Elgin Marbles, the Rosetta Stone, the Venus de Milo, Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” Pete Seeger’s banjo, the handwritten lyrics to Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message.”
You might wonder what all these cultural artifacts have in common. But as of Dec. 6, they can all be seen in museums — the last two [...]
“Doc” The Life and Fictions of Harold Humes
By Tom Teicholz at 9 December, 2008, 7:41 am
Watching wasted genius, a life gone wrong, is compelling and poignant, but with “Doc” airing December 9, at 10PM on PBS’ Independent Lens (Check your local listings for actual times), we feel much more like guests doing a post-mortem on a private party where the drinks may have been dosed.
“Doc” is a documentary by Immy [...]
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