Franz Kafka - A Hunger Artist

🎩 Mark Twain – “A Cure for the Blues” 💡- 1871In a world that takes itself too seriously, one man discovers a remedy for despair — and it isn’t found in any doctor’s bag.Mark Twain’s A Cure for the Blues begins as a simple confession: a man plagued by melancholy claims to have f ...  Show more

🎃 Washington Irving – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) 🌕A tale where mist drifts through autumn woods and legends ride by night. In the quiet village of Sleepy Hollow, the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane dreams of wealth and love — and of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. But be ...  Show more

David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story that brims with metaphorical possibilities but also implores us to accept it on its own mysterious terms. Plus gooning. The Goon Squ ...  Show more

Artist Dmitry Samarov returns to the show to bail me out after a stressful couple of weeks and to explore his fantastic new book, MAKING PICTURES IS HOW I TALK TO THE WORLD, a survey of his art from the '80s to today. We talk about the process of selecting pieces for the book, wh ...  Show more

‏Hossam Zaki’s collection is the manifestation of the intersection between the Artist’s imagination and his fascination with the Etruscan ancient history. Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy between the 9th and 2nd centuries BC. It is an art di ...  Show more

Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art were once contemporary. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, and gives the ...  Show more