Art & Culture

“The success of ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ is not about the action,” writes Chicago Tribune cultural critic Julia Keller in “It’s (pant) not just (pant) a chase movie (whew!).” “People may be drawn to the film by the promise of thrilling chase scenes, but what makes it deeply satisfying are three words of dialogue. The...
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Virtually all of Western science that is not Greek flows from an ancient Chinese “pseudoscience.” Although long known to scholars, the I Ching became one of the more surprisingly popular manifestations of New Age culture when Bollingen brought out a one volume edition of Richard Wilhelm’s translation in 1967.
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Original, limited-edition, presidential-style black velvet portraiture of prominent Republicans painted on black velvet entirely by hand in Tijuana, Mexico. Go to Velvet Republicans.
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Guido Daniele reduces an elephant to fit on your hand.
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Spider web, Cancun, photograph by Anita Brown
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