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Column: Art / Music / Theatre

After the gas stations: The art of the artist’s book

by Belle Place , March 14, 2013 • 2 Comments

  When Ed Ruscha published Twentysix Gasoline Stations in 1962, the book was returned to the artist, marked ‘Rejected by the Library of Congress’. Ruscha has said that he received no explanation, but it’s assumed that his book, a volume of black-and-white photographs taken along Route 66, … Read more »

Column: Film and TV

Polisse: empathy or exploitation?

by Josh Nelson , July 26, 2012 • 1 Comment

At what point does representation become exploitation? Classifying the inherent ethical value of art is a perilous pursuit. As the response to Bill Henson’s photography or the calls to ban Adrian Lyne’s Lolita, Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin and Srđan Spasojević’s A Serbian Film reveal, this is particularly … Read more »