In 2011 the art market was a staggering 52 billion dollar industry, the largest it has been in history. It sounded like great news when I first read it. I reasoned there was more money for artists and the people … Continue reading
Category Archives: Nerdy Birdies
I love guitars. People all over the world play them both for fun and professionally. But how did a guitar come to be? When were they created? How did it get the design it has today? All of these answers … Continue reading
A link to the article here. Built in 1910, the original Penn Station was considered the architectural pride and joy of New York City, but as a result of the number of total daily passengers exceeding its capacity, the entire … Continue reading
Electronic dance music concerts have always been associated with high drug use since the late 1900s. This is primarily because it has become common to find people overdosing during such performances. According to the New York Times article Drug Deaths … Continue reading
Why do the wealthy donate to the arts? Obligation to do so was my first thought, but after reading Robin Pogrebin’s article, “These Donors Will Take Anything but Manhattan,” I learned why. Social status. Pogrebins says that “gifts serve as … Continue reading
I often feel like maybe I’m missing my nose… as if I, like Major Kovalyov, have misplaced something that everyone else has and I am now on some wild goose chase to get it back. While his loss is symbolic … Continue reading
Reading Gogol’s The Nose, I was thoroughly confused. One of my first thoughts were “What is up with these Eastern European guys writing about someone turning into a giant insect…and now about a runaway nose?” (after having read Kafka’s Metamorphosis as … Continue reading
Just like Metamorphosis, I knew that “The Nose” would not be a typical read. Unfortunately, the first image that came to my mind was a little cartoon of a nose running away. At first I was angry that my thoughts … Continue reading
On the surface, The Nose is the wonderfully bizarre surrealist tale of a Russian mid-level civil servant who wakes up without a nose and discovers it traveling through the streets of St. Petersburg dressed as a high-ranking member of the civil service. When I … Continue reading
OK, The Nose is just another nonsensical story just like Metamorphosis. A guy named Kovaliov loses his nose. Well, how is he able to breath? This question arouses when I read the beginning of the story. It might be off the … Continue reading