Slate's Christina Cauterucci reads Melania Trump's clothes, because that's all the meaning we can get out of her, for she … More
Author: rmprouty
Crossing Out the John Hancock Center
The generic city is a city without names. The great city, on the other hand, is a collections of names. … More
When Everything Now Is Exactly Enough
After dinner we drove the short distance from Urban Belly to the United Center for the Arcade Fire concert. First … More
A Species of Hunger Native to the City
One night not long ago my wife and I attended an Arcade Fire concert at the United Center in the … More
The Arcades Project on Film
Filmmaker and art historian Judith Wechsler has made a beautiful film about Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, entitled, appropriately enough, The Passages … More
The President of Magical Thinking
From Michael Chabon's open letter to "our fellow Jews, in the United States, in Israel, and around the world." The … More
Mr. Dob and the Wall-Eyed Monsters: Takashi Murakami’s The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
I got a chance to attend the preview of the Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg exhibit at … More
Parallax Sounds Now Available to Stream
Parallax Sounds, a film I wrote about in this space in 2011, is now available for streaming. The film … More
When Pigs Fly by Trump Tower
New World Design Ltd., a Chicago design company, has hatched a plan to have giant inflatable pigs hover beside Trump … More
Protecting the Guilty: Kristóf Deák’s Sing as Political Allegory
Kristóf Deák’s Sing won the 2017 Academy Award for a live-action short film–remember? Ivan Krastev, a New York Times reporter … More
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