Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern… It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.” Sterling Cooper’s first Xerox machine arrives in the first five minutes of the season’s premiere, but Mad Men does resist repeating itself in its sophomore outing. Still, its overall movement, interestingly, is nearly null. What we’re dealing with in 1962 is the fallout of what we dealt with in Season 1, which closed on Thanksgiving 1960. That is to say, in the show’s second season, Don doesn’t become uninterested in his marriage, he becomes even less interested in his marriage. Pete Campbell’s allegiances to Don, to himself, to the company only get tested further. In the following lines, the poet talks about the clouds. They are the least sincere of all. Yet they get enough attention, despite their transience. He is suffering for the absence of a lady he loved but the clouds don’t even care about such things. Poniewozik, James (July 24, 2008). "Mad Men on a New Frontier". Time. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008 . Retrieved March 7, 2012. Lin Luqi graduated with a BA from the department of art management at Xiamen University, and currently lives and works in Beijing. Since 2018, he has worked in the exhibitions department at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. He joined AXIS Art Project in 2015, curating exhibitions including “What if the Sunlight is Also A Stage Set” (Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, 2018); “The Restaurant at the Egg of the Universe” (Hitel Space, Xiamen, 2018); “The Wugao Project” (Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, 2017); “Amoy Meat Factory” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016); and “The Possibility of an Island” (No. 22 Shapowei, Xiamen, 2015).

Meditations in an Emergency” is curated by the UCCA exhibitions team: Guo Xi, Luan Shixuan, Ara Qiu, Lin Luqi, Duffy Du, and Neil Zhang.

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Freddy Rumsen's alcoholism results in an embarrassing situation during a pitch meeting with his team, and he is let go from the agency. Roger leaves his wife Mona and takes up with Jane. The death of Marilyn Monroe saddens many of the women in the office. Shana Moulton (b. 1976, Oakhurst, California) graduated from University of California Berkeley in 1999 and Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. In 2004, she attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and from 2004 to 2006 studied at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. Moulton has held over 40 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide, including: Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2016); MOCA Cleveland (2016); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2015); and 1646, Den Haag (2014). Recent group exhibitions include “Producing Futures: An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms” (Migros Museum, Zurich, 2019); the 6th Athens Biennale (2018); “Dreamers Awake,” (White Cube, London, 2017); “Health as Metaphor,” (Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico, 2017); and “The People’s Cinema,” (Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria, 2016). Later, the speaker refers to a greenhouse. It is a metaphor for the world of love. In the last line, the poet uses enjambment to connect the idea of the next section with the last line of this part. Meditations in an Emergency’ belongs to Frank O’Hara’s poetry collection by the same name. It was first published in 1957 and the title poem was printed in the November 1954 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The name of this poem is derived from the prose, “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” by John Donne. Whatsoever O’Hara is one of the renowned members of the New York School of poets. His works are impressionistic and mostly influenced by abstract expressionism. In this poem, one can find several themes that were popular in the postmodern period. Through these themes, the poet tries to depict how he visualizes modernity. I’m reminded, too, of what Bobbie Barrett says to Don as they start their illicit relationship. Don calls Bobbie with his wife and kids in the other room, and he tells her this. She says, “I like being bad and then going home and being good.” O’Hara’s version in “To the Film Industry in Crisis”: “And give credit where its due/ not to my starched nurse who taught me how to be bad and not bad rather than good.” [4]

Consider, as well, that said poem is about a certain love for film, one Don shares when Barrett asks him a simple question he has trouble answering: “What do you like?”The 15th Annual Screen Actor's Guild Awards Winners". Screen Actors Guild . Retrieved March 8, 2012. This is PopPoetry—a newsletter/blog-type-situation by Caitlin Cowan that you can learn more about here. If you like what you read and would be interested in having more pop up in your inbox, consider sharing this piece and subscribing. Hu Rui, High Fidelity Mantra (2019–2020). Blue mosaic tiles, iron pipes, grid printing, five-colour seat cushions, and high-definition digital images. 17 min and 6 sec. Exhibition view: Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (21 May–30 August 2020). Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. In light of the special circumstances surrounding “Meditations in Emergency,” UCCA reached out to some of the featured artists around the time of the exhibition opening, to find out how they were facing new realities, and how these conditions were affecting their creative practice.Artists also responded with images that represented this period for them. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette opined that the series was the "sophisticated heir" to The Sopranos and observed the historical authenticity of the series extends "to the characters, their reactions, their choices and the ways in which they relate to one another. It's a Mad Men hallmark that sets the show head and shoulders above its prime-time peers." [13] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle said the series "reaffirm[s] its place in the upper echelon of television dramas. The writing is a real thing of beauty - from the aforementioned nuance to searing workplace witticisms and pitch-perfect tone from a multitude of characters. You can't overstate how accomplished Mad Men is at understanding the vagaries of dialogue among disparate characters." [14] Salon.com noted that the time period almost acts as an antagonist for the characters and that "what sets this drama apart from others is the complexity and depth of its themes beyond the obvious." [15] Accolades [ edit ]

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there’ll be nothing left with which to venture forth. I love this. Brand new in the same way every time I read it. Returning, re-emerging, defeated, from the valley. What else is there to do?The second season of the American television drama series Mad Men premiered on July 27, 2008, and concluded on October 26, 2008. It consisted of thirteen episodes, each running approximately 48 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the second season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States; [1] it would occupy in this timeslot for the remainder of its run. Qiu Anxiong, New Mountains and Seas III (2013–2017) (still). Animated movie, 30 points. Courtesy the artist and SPURS Gallery. In this poem, the speaker represents the poet himself. It speaks on his nature concerning how he feels and thinks. His thoughts are embedded inside the poem in a manner that it seems he is like the clouds. Never engrossed in a single object or thought. On top of that, the thoughts regarding his unrequited love get depicted in the text. He feels as if the lady whom he loved the most, was not dedicated at all. Her heart belonged to someone else. Now, when he thinks about her, several thoughts keep him in a state of mental emergency. Thoughts come rumbling down his mind. What this poetic self encounters, gets depicted in this piece. Joan, having been outed to her coworkers by Paul as being 31 years old, hurriedly becomes engaged to egotistical and frustrated medical resident Greg Harris. Too proud to admit to his own insecurities regarding his career, Greg takes full advantage of being the only man Joan is willing to be submissive to; this culminates in him raping Joan inside Don's office prior to the couple's wedding. In spite of this, Joan remains with her fiancé. Jon Hamm was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, while John Slattery was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, both for the second year in a row. Elisabeth Moss received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for the first time. The series also received three additional nominations for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series ( Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner for "A Night to Remember"; Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton and Matthew Weiner for "Six Month Leave"; and Matthew Weiner for "The Jet Set"). Phil Abraham received an Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination for directing "The Jet Set". [16]