James Wrona On May 10, 2013, The Straddler met journalist and author Kim Ghattas at a Dupont Circle café in Washington, D.C., to discuss her new book, The Secretary: A Journey With Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power (Times Books, 2013).
Installation 4 (fragments) Installation 4 is a small room containing twenty-eight objects, spread out on the floor in a checkered pattern.
Think, for a moment, of the real estate broker in the age of Craigslist.
After every presidential election, before the “normal” produced by its results takes hold, election season is extended through proliferative and variegated (if not particularly conclusive) analyses of what led to the outcome under examination.
Louis Fuertes’ Sharp-Shinned Hawk Fuertes told his students, “Start with the deepest darks, and paint the rest of the bird from these first marks.
The monument’s an object, yet those decorations, Carelessly nailed, looking like nothing at all, Give it away as having life, and wishing; Wanting to be a monument, to cherish something.
On October 8, 2013, The Straddler met with Micah Zenko in Manhattan at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is Douglas Dillon Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action.
On September 26th, The Straddler sat down with Kazys Varnelis and Trevor Paglen at Studio X, a Columbia University facility in SoHo, for a conversation about surveillance, network culture, and secrecy.
In Paul Goodman’s 1935 short story “The Boy Scouts of Westhampton,” a fictional group of scouts eagerly looks on as a rival troop takes part in make-believe war drills.
