"I’ve long been drawn to...'gnostic' texts–-those rejected, supposedly heretical texts from long before Christianity became an organized religion." (Photo by Greg Kessler) Paul Brantley is a man who moves between worlds. A multifaceted musician, he has performed as a cellist with Trey Anastasio, recorded for Béla Fleck and James [...]
The Present We made models: this is a moment of happiness, this is a maple-shaded street, its yellow median line littered with double wings: some day we might know such things in our real lives, not just in desire. We invented Cherryfield, Maine, nine pearl-gray Capes with [...]
Olafur Eliasson, the Danish artist who brought the sun to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and created man-made waterfalls in New York City, has a new project at the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. Eliasson’s installation Din blinde passager (Your blind passenger) is a 295-foot-long tunnel filled with dense fog. [...]
Meghan O'Rourke (Photo by Sarah Shatz) Extraneous The wind is alive, it lifts and swings; the river is alive, it drifts past the sugar factory; the grass is alive, it trembles or shakes, the ants are alive, they move through the brown grass; the dirt [...]
You may not know graphic designer Milton Glaser by name, but you undoubtedly know his work. He is best known for the “I ♥ NY” logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968 and was [...]
If forwarding an email or sharing a story could bring an important creative project to fruition, would you do it? If giving $10 could help us better understand the lives of four young women living in the Middle East or unravel the causes of a cultural revolution, would you [...]
On my recent visit to the UK I talked to several music lovers about the British music scene. One classical pianist I met in London recommended the choral work of British composer Jonathan Harvey and urged me to investigate the excellent website Sound and Music, which covers the contemporary [...]
I'm excited to announce the first installment of Gwarlingo's new Sunday Poem series. I want to thank Andrea Cohen for sharing her new poem "Tender" with Gwarlingo readers. I'm a long-time fan of Andrea's work, and I'm grateful she agreed to be the featured poet for the series debut. [...]
Female writers are sentimental and have "a narrow view of the world." At least that is how V.S. Naipaul sees things. Back in June, in an interview at the Royal Geographic Society, Naipaul was asked if there were any female writers he considered his literary match. "I don't think so," the author [...]
Gwarlingo's "Photo of the Week" (a regular feature on the sidebar of the Gwarlingo homepage) is a captivating image of a sailboat on the Thames taken in 1906 by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Not many people realize that the Nobel laureate was a passionate amateur photographer, as [...]
Last week the world's longest sea bridge, the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China, opened to traffic. The bridge, which is 26.4 miles long, would easily span the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, officially making it the world's [...]
Wilco's new record The Whole Love will be released on September 27th. It is the first album on the band's own label dBpm Records (shorthand for decibels per minute). The new label will handle “all future Wilco recordings and more,” in association with ANTI- Records, which will aid in distribution [...]
