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Poem: No ode to door-to-door strategies

No ode to door-to-door strategies The door-to-door salesmenIn their cheap suits Their evangelist grinHangs from a thread They are too youngAnd haven't been to schoolwith their straw-colored hair And green eyes Their training book And their rehearsed speech Fake leather briefcase Full of free samplesOf something They never heard of Willy Loman And wouldn't know pathos If…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

CRUNCH 2010: Line-up Announced

Naked Punch is one of the sponsors of CRUNCH 2010, so we thought we would tell you what is planned for this years Art Festival at Hay. CRUNCH 2010: Line-up Announced “A space of discovery” The Guardian “One of the UK’s hidden gems” GQ The Institute of Art and Ideas is pleased to announce…

ByBianca Brigitte Bonomi

A Persisting Format: Bienials and Bi-annuals

Giancarlo Hannud is an art historian based in São Paulo and part of the curatorial team of the 28th Bienal de São Paulo: In Living Contact. “Why is it that the Bienal takes place only every two years?” This rather vacuous question is known to have been posed by many of São Paulo’s residents, capital city of the homonymous…

ByGiancarlo Hannud

Poem: Untitled (From Dossier Brighton Poetry)

1: If there could be such a love, a dog love, dog did I love a bit as though it yelps, impenetrably. Love is a picture, a picture of a river and inside the salt moves in ways that remind me of a dream I once had bound tight up to the eye sockets, “I…

Poem: The Steps (Dossier Brighton Poetry)

THE STEPS After Paul Valéry You are not the clutch of silence, placed gently against the blessed, as towards a knowledge that sleep is the patina mooting its practices. Nor clear with sacraments’ shade, that are soft but like unrestricting! Good in everything I can divine comes to me at bases…

ByMichael Kindellan

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Arthur Danto – Interviewed by Zoe Sutherland

Zoe: It is a great pleasure to be here in New York, interviewing you for Naked Punch. I’m happy to see that you have a lot of exciting art here in your apartment, including, naturally, the Brillo Box that you have positioned rather nonchalantly under your coffee table. Is that thing real? Is it an, original? Danto: It is…

Poem: Epiphany (For Adrian Mitchell, 1932 – 2008)

Epiphany For Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) Epiphany is not a blazing light. A blazing light blazes when warplanes spread their demon’s wings and drop their demon’s eggs over the city, and the city burns like the eye of a screaming horse. Epiphany is a comic book during the war. A sailor on the convoy from New…

ByMartin Espada

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Interview with film-maker Michal Kosakowski

Naked Punch Contributing Editor and founder of Shoppinghour magazine Peter Eramian interviews Michal Kosakowski. Peter: Three movies that I’d like to discuss: “Just Like the Movies”, “The Heart of It” and “Fortynine”. In “Just Like the Movies” you basically reconstruct September 11th using footage from Hollywood blockbusters. This seems to me to be a statement about the fictionalization of certain political…

ByMichal Kosakowski

The Trouble with House Arrest

One problem with house arrest is that you never quite know who’s in-charge. Or what you’ve been charged with. Or how the situation will be resolved. Between prisoner and jailor, who has the greater power? Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Zhao Zhiyang in China, Habib Bourgouiba in Tunisia, Sukarno in Indonesia, Mossadeq and Ayatollah Hossein-Ali…

Those Struggling for a Different Pakistan

I. Prologue Pakistan is in a state of crisis. The history of Pakistan, looked at from a human perspective, has been a perpetual crisis since its birth. The ruling elite have operated -- from the very beginning -- on cronyism, nepotism, and legal and illegal corruption. They have always been inefficient and indifferent to the…

ByQalandar Bux Memon