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Senses Working Overtime

“To think through things, that is the still life painter’s work– and the poet’s. Both sorts of artists require a tangible vocabulary, a worldly lexicon.” The quote is from Mark Doty’s essay Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, but it could also apply to filmmakers and this polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky, taken in the early 1980s [...]

The Greatest

There’s an interesting show of Andy Warhol’s polariod portraits of athletes now at the Danziger Gallery through December 12. I chose this one to write about because I have just watched Leon Gast’s documentary When We Were Kings about the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire in 1974. It’s a suspenseful story of how the dethroned Ali got [...]

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