In the 1970s, performance artist Marina Abramović created a piece called Rhythm 0 in which she arranged a collection of 72 objects – instruments of both potential pleasure and potential violence (including a gun and a single bullet) – on a table, and sat passively for six hours essentially inviting viewers to do what they would to her with those objects without fear of either reciprocation or retaliation. You can hear the artist talk […]
Sunday morning, I came downstairs and sort of half-heartedly flipped on the TV. The show I wanted to watch was still a good 18 minutes away, but sometimes it helps in our house to stake the claim in advance. As it happened, my partner must have been watching one of those Bill Engvall-hosted, hey-y’all-check-out-them-rednecks reality shows the night before, and the TV was still tuned to CMT, which – amazing these days, given […]
The Donald Trump could hardly have wished for a better Celebrity Apprentice contestant than former Poison frontman Bret Michaels. Not only has the guy proven an able contestant, landing himself in the final two by a combination of unharnessed creativity, fierce motivation, and an endlessly endearing lack of pretension, he’s also demonstrated an admirable sense of personal accountability and a willingness to accept feedback and learn from it. Fellow contestant Rod Blagojevich could’ve […]