Saturday, May 12, 2018

@12:35, 5/11/18

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1
Style

Artist Doreen Garner Uses Tattoos to Explore Black Bodies

The sculpture and performance artist lives in Brooklyn and has exhibited at Pioneer Works and the Abrons Arts Center.

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2
Sports

Raptors Fire Dwane Casey Days After He Wins Coaching Honor

Casey led Toronto to the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, but a second-round sweep by the Cleveland Cavaliers cost him his job.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/sports/ncaabasketball

The off season.

3
T Magazine

The Photographer Nacho Alegre Captures His Creative World — in Polaroids

The co-founder of Apartamento photographs his friends and collaborators — and Salvador DalĂ­'s car.

Photography records light.

The rest is the photographer and the viewer.

4
Opinion

Donors to Congressman: ‘Don’t Ever Call Me Again’

A reader laments a political system dictated by money.

Yes.

It is easy to imagine a representative government.
It must be built on personal relationships.
This would mean much smaller electoral districts.
The House would become enormous.
The senate would remain corrupt because it is elected at large.

5
Arts

A Newcomer to Opera Tries to Tame a Tempest

Daniel Kramer, a 41-year-old American who has never led a major arts organization, is in charge of saving the troubled English National Opera.

The National Arts Council of Britain is having political troubles.  Daniel Kramer is the tail on that dog.
Daniel Kramer is getting his job done.

6
Fashion & Style

50 So-So Dates Later, a Breakup Gets Unbroken

“The single life didn’t turn out to be as satisfying as I expected it to be. It finally dawned on me, ‘Let’s work it out.’”

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

7
Books

Step 1: Kill Husband. Step 2: Assume His Identity.

In Tadzio Koelb’s “Trenton Makes,” a battered wife gets revenge, and then some, on her spouse.

I would prefer to continue missing Trenton.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Trenton,+NJ/@40.2161138,-74.8092249,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c143482d3dbbb9
:0xcf16567f895cd7bc!8m2!3d40.2205824!4d-74.759717

8
Style

Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light

Abandoned by her parents as a child, a woman finds an unlikely candidate to help fill the “mother-shaped hole” in her heart.

We do what we can.

9
Books

Childhood Friends — Once Inseparable, Now Far-Flung — Reunite for a Funeral

In “The Gunners,” Rebecca Kauffman’s generous and affectionate novel, five friends parse what drove the sixth member of their group to take her own life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Chill_%28film%29

Talk helps.

10
Real Estate

A Townhouse Where Nancy Reagan and Danish Royalty Partied

The home of a former ambassador on the Upper East Side goes on the market for $8.9 million.

I don't want to live like that and neither do you.


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