Is Greater Than’s contributors and friends find some bright spots amid 2010′s wreckage.
BY JEANETTE WYCHE: Ronit Genik, an Israeli- born, Brooklyn-bred women’s wear designer off the beaten path
SIMPLICITIES BY JANINA LARENAS: Still scrambling for a holiday gift idea? Homemade hot chocolate is a delicious gift for less than $5.
BY R. JOHN XERXES: A terrorist comedy fails on its own terms
Work by the late Flemish graphic novelist Frans Masereel at Princeton’s Graphic Arts blog.
Stunningly brilliant author/blogger Geeta Dayal on Wikileaks, the David Wojnarowicz/Smithsonian controversy, music, Foucault and a whole lot more.
The Department of Homeland Security continues to shut down the country’s greatest terrorist threat, hip-hop mp3 blogs.
Sites of urban disrepair in Detroit become swampland.
LEVI FULLER takes on the grim slate of holiday music releases
ART CAN’T HURT YOU BY LAURA M. BROWNING: A trip to the Print Room of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
Google’s book store has launched, though there are still many questions about the Google Book Search settlement. In other Google news, they reveal some tidbids about their news aggregation secret sauce.
Who were the cowboys behind the cowboy songs?
If you’re a fan of Brian Eno and/or unconventional songwriting/recording processes, you must read Geeta Dayal’s 33 1/3 book on Brian Eno’s Another Green World.
A brief history of the New York Times gender essentialist trend piece.
FICTION BY MICHELLE ONG: “…they quickly halted production when treasure hunters began searching for the philosopher’s stone and alchemy rose in popularity”
A FINE LINE BY CAT JOHNSON: The design history of an iconic currency
I’ve been fascinated by the never-realized utopian plans for future cities so popular in the ’50s and ’60s. A consideration of this nostalgia, and a site about Walt Disney’s original vision of Epcot Center as a city of tomorrow.
“Written On The Forehead“, a new song from P.J. Harvey’s forthcoming album Let England Shake.
Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Revision Street project comes to a premature end (haitus?).
“…we know that the cuteness epidemic—with its manifestations of craftiness, color-saturation and childishness—in contemporary art has been a terrible, demeaning thing…There’s nothing cute about our trash, or our purchasing, or our engagement with environmental disaster, or you know, our impending deaths—or our overwhelming forced involvement with capitalist superstructures and brands. The cute things? They are what beg us not to think about these things.” Choire Sicha on the cute crafts aesthetic
Paul M Davis