Articles Written by:    ARIEL RAMCHANDANI     

« Previous  |  Next »

A VELÁZQUEZ, REDISCOVERED

It's not everyday that you find yourself somewhere in the endless rooms of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hearing one bow-tied man murmur excitedly to another, "yes, forensic science." These bow-tied men have reason to be ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art

YOU'RE MY PUMPKIN, PUMPKIN

I worry for food obsessives this time of year. How easy it is to spend all your time googling brining techniques and your money on that pedigree heritage bird. And please don’t walk into traffic while pondering how to make gingerbread not too crisp and ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  13 Nov 2009

PAUL MCCARTHY'S CARTOON PORNOGRAPHY

In a narrow space on Manhattan's Upper East side, Hauser & Wirth's new New York outpost seems ready to assert itself. The contemporary art gallery has just unveiled "White Snow", a new show of work by Paul McCarthy, a controversial American artist. On ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Paul McCarthy

THE Q&A: DEBORAH COLKER, CHOREOGRAPHER

Here she talks about "4 Por 4", her mix of classical and contemporary influences and what it was like to direct Cirque du Soleil. More Intelligent Life: The work of your company, Companhia de Dança is very unique. How have you crafted your ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Cirque du Soleil,  Deborah Colker

FROM THE DEPT OF BRIGHT IDEAS

Dumb inventions, we've seen a few. History is littered with wondrously knuckleheaded contributions to the world of things. Life magazine has treated us to a rather glamorous black-and-white slideshow of 30 such honkers--the curved barrel machine gun, ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  1 Oct 2009

FROM THE DEPT OF CULTURE MASH-UPS

According to the Brooklyn paper, local Muslims have a unique tradition for celebrating the three-day Eid al-Fitr festival at the end of Ramadan: Chuck. E. Cheese. Suited boys and girls in party dresses gobbled up their pizza and scrambled for the video ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  25 Sep 2009

"IN THE LOOP", SERPENT TONGUES GET A WORKOUT

It's hard to imagine a situation where the proper way for a political aide to exit a conversation is a with a cheerful "fuckitty-bye!". But in Armando Iannucci's  "In the Loop" such pleasantries are spit out with high velocity and reckless abandon. The ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Armando Iannucci,  Peter Capaldi,  Tony Blair,  Alastair Campbell,  Eminem

KATHA POLLITT AND "THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM"

To call any art form 'accessible' conjures up the worst: framed posters of Monet's water lilies and ice in your pinot. But when it comes to poetry, accessibility is a way in. Billy Collins, former poet laureate and champion of accessible poetry, is a ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  7 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Billy Collins,  Katha Pollitt

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?

I wouldn't go that far, but the photos are immensely striking. Positioned in front of an open fridge, we find within a life in full. These views are often awkwardly intimate, with the grimy, yellowed-tooth colour of a fridge setting off its ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  29 Jul 2009

THE Q&A: REIF LARSEN, NOVELIST, MAP-MAKER, INDUSTRY SAVIOUR

The genesis and sustenance of their love thus got filed away with the rest of the unspoken subjects...materializing only in tiny trinkets: the horseshoe ornament in the cab of the pickup, a single picture of my father as a young man...that Dr. Clair ...

From ARIEL RAMCHANDANI, More Intelligent Life,  20 Jul 2009
Related Topics: David Foster Wallace,  Billy the Kid,  George W. Bush

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry

Enter a url from sourcewatch.org or wikipedia.org:


recommend removal

close