ART AS WRITING In the dark days of the late 1970s, New York City was at its lowest ebb. Although Jimmy Carter never uttered the word “malaise” in his infamous “Malaise Speech” (1979), the Big Apple was a psycho poster city for malaise. Infuriated by the benign...
IMPRESSIONISM, FASHION, AND MODERNITY Musée d’Orsay, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago September 2012-September 2013 Part Two: The Codes of Fashion Fashion and Gender Like the century itself, Parisian fashion was hybrid and...
IMPRESSIONISM, FASHION, AND MODERNITY Musée d’Orsay, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago September 2012-September 2013 Part One: Fashion as the Trope of Modernité Imagine if Impressionism existed today, not as a style but as...
THE PARADOX OF TAR HEEL POLITICS. THE PERSONALITIES, ELECTIONS, AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED MODERN NORTH CAROLINA (2012) By Rob Christensen North Carolina is a small state of little consequence, so why is a political history of “modern North Carolina” of any interest to...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1929-2007) Simulacra and Simulations (1988) “The Precession of the Simulacra” (1981) As the Bible once stated, The simulacrum is never that/Which conceals the truth—it is/The truth which conceals that/There is none./The...
