Episode 21: After School Commons
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather begin TFT summer school by examining the UK TV series Skins.
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Art on Overthinking It
Episode 10: The End of Hipstery
The TFT podcast returns with more insight into Gossip Girl. Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather comfort you with visions of a transnational elite.
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Through the Player’s Eyes
I was reading an essay called “Art and Answerability” by Mikhail Bakhtin the other day, where he makes the claim that one of the most important differences between novels and dreams is that in novels, we see the main character … Continued
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Episode 42: What Art Ain’t
The overthinkers take on Crank 2, the meaning of pretentious, and the nature of art (topics more closely related than you might imagine).
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The Raddest Public Art I’ve Seen In a Long While
If you’re in New York, you have GOT to ride the Q train into Manhattan sometime soon. After you pull out of the Dekalb Avenue station, look right. Keep looking. *Through* the window, nimrod.
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“Her ability to shoot a gun was so the film’s advertisers could put her on a poster wearing a skimpy outfit with a big gun between her legs.”
The title here is taken from a recent post by mlawski on the difference between [Strong Female] Characters and [Strong Characters], Female. The image is a painting by the French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly, which (according to the exhibit guide at … Continued
Who’s the greatest living American artist?
Overthinking It bids a fond farewell to Robert Rauschenberg, who passed away last Monday at the age of 82. Honestly, his stuff isn’t so much to my taste. But there’s no denying that he was an important guy. You’ve got … Continued
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Overthinking It (Rambo Week Postscript)
No sooner did I finish my weeklong series on Rambo than I came across this little corner of the blogosphere, and I think it, as much as anything else, helps me clarify why I bothered to do a weeklong series … Continued
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