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Who’s Afraid of Dave Hickey? Rereading ‘The Invisible Dragon,’ Three Decades Later – The Village Voice

[ad_1] To paraphrase the late Dave Hickey — one-time Austin art dealer, Nashville lyricist, Art in America editor, roving music scribe, and Nevada-based MacArthur genius...

New York, New York Local News9 months ago

Heat Death – Or, That Time You Were Meant to Discuss ‘1984’ on Its Glorious Anniversary but Had Some Kind of Psychotic Break Instead – The Village Voice

[ad_1] Your family becoming worried about your consumption of InfoWars — that’s probably the first sign. You tell them it’s a scholarly thing, you’re a...

New York, New York Local News9 months ago

What Would Studs Terkel Make of ‘Essential Workers’? – The Village Voice

[ad_1] It was half a century ago that labor radio broadcaster Studs Terkel published Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How...

New York, New York Local News9 months ago

The Three Faces of Grieve – The Village Voice

[ad_1] Where’s that orange paperback, Art Deco, by Bevis Hillier? Michael Gass, my sparkling actor-boyfriend at Brandeis University, in Massachusetts, handed it to me in...

New York, New York Local News9 months ago

The Way We Were – A Child’s Garden of Watergate – The Village Voice

[ad_1] Young Americans “Do you remember your President Nixon?” David Bowie asked the Watergate-gobsmacked denizens of God’s favorite country half a century ago. Starting...