Nomadics

Arabic / Literature / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

July 23, 2010

Goethe's Arabic Title Page

After I posted on Goethe & his Color Theory last week, Tom Cheetham mentioned the post on his Corbin blog, and pointed to his own postings on the matter, looking at Corbin’s interests in...

Art / Criticism / Essays / Independent Publishers / Intellectuals / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Painting / Poetics / Poetry

July 23, 2010

New Issue of "Damn The Caesars" Just Out

NEW WRITING Michael Basinski & Ginny O’Brien • Chris Goode on Basinski • Keston Sutherland • Justin Katko • Emily Critchley • Luke Roberts • Francesca Lisette • Dale Smith • Geoffrey Gatza •...

Art / Art Exhibition / Benefit Auction / Benefit Reading / Man-made Disaster / Performances / Poetry

July 22, 2010

Imagine it Thick / in Your Own Hair

HEIDE HATRY Imagine It Thick In Your Own Hair A benefit exhibition and silent auction of work by numerous artists for victims of the oil spill Through August 1, 2010 Reception and Silent Auction...

Books / Independent Publishers / Language / Man-made Disaster / Poetry / Uncategorized

July 21, 2010

Catching up with accumulated magazines, webpages & sundry readings, here are a few gleanings: — Good analysis of the BP-disaster & its (very overlooked connections with similar oil-disaster brought about by the naked greed...

Obituaries / Performance / Poetry / Reading / Uncategorized

July 20, 2010

Homage & Good-Bye to Tuli Kupferberg

On Saturday a Tuli Kupferberg homage was held at Saint Marks in the Bowery’s Poetry Project. The Fugs performed a number of Tuli’s songs, and some 40 plus people spoke or read to honor...

Environment / Man-made Disaster / Oceans

July 19, 2010

Seepage Detected near BP’s Deepwater Well

Fears re damaged seabed and leaks — as described in my posts of June 15th & July 8th — seem to be coming true. Admiral Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander of the Deepwater...

Music

July 18, 2010

Houria Aichi @ Conference of the Birds

Quiet hot lazy Sunday after a week of too much food & drink. Resting, listening to Stephen Cope’s Conference of the Birds musical assemblages. Very much like the one dated 7/13/10 as it starts...

Uncategorized

July 17, 2010

Goethe's Color Theory

A little noticed anniversary this year is that of Goethe’s Color Theory, originally published in 1810 in a volume 1,400 pages thick. According to Goethe: “That I am the only person in this century...

Literature

July 16, 2010

The Kafkaesque Trials of the Brod Estate

Fascinating and disturbing at the same time: the fight for Max Brod’s papers — which may come to a head next week when lawyers open the Tel Aviv and Zürich 4 bank safes containing...

Music

July 15, 2010

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Requiem

The German weekly Die Zeit presents (though not available in their online edition) a major little known (at least to me, until now) Russian composer, namely Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), whose work – 22 symphonies...