From a store in Brooklyn called Swallow, glass spiders the size of one's head, so much like "Maman," Louise Bourgeois' 20 foot tall spider at the Tate Modern.

From Mieke Bal's book Louise Bourgeois' Spider, The Architecture of Art Writing:

"The compulsion to fall back into a narrativity that spiders promote depends less on their hyperbolically figurative status than on something altogether different. They...embody vicisstudinous temporality. And it is within this vicisstudinous temporality that childhood memories impose themselves as mood while witholding themselves as narratives."
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Glenn Gould: "Goldberg Variations". A new box set offers the ingenious 1955 interpretation of Bach's odes to God that turned Gould into a star, and the remarkably different version he recorded in 1981 out of contempt for the former. [Salon.com]
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