In this part of the world, MIT stands for “Made in Taiwan.” Today I just learned (via Jason at Wandering to Tamshui) that one of Taiwan’s number one exports is SPAM. I really like the title of Jason’s post. If you don’t get it, watch this. Actually, it isn’t clear if the Taiwanese are actually [...]
A lot has been written about Las Meninas by Velazquez, most notably Foucault in The Order of Things, and later Searle’s response in “Las Meninas and the Paradoxes of Pictorial Representation.” It has also been copied and emulated by numerous painters, such as Picasso. So I was surprised to learn recently that the painting originally [...]