{"id":112137,"date":"2017-06-29T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=112137"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:25:59","slug":"breaking-the-commandments-literally-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/breaking-the-commandments-literally-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Ten Commandments (Literally), and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_112138\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tencommandments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112138\" class=\"wp-image-112138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tencommandments.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tencommandments.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tencommandments-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tencommandments-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2014, Reed ran his car into a monument at the Oklahoma capitol.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your car can get you from point A to point B, but if you\u2019re willing to destroy it, it can do much more than that: it can serve as a mighty metaphor for the sanctity of the constitution. As the<em>\u00a0Washington Post <\/em>reports, a man named Michael Tate Reed is \u201ca serial destroyer of Ten Commandments monuments.\u201d This week he plowed his car straight into a three-ton granite sculpture of the Commandments outside the Arkansas state capitol in Little Rock; in 2014, he did the same in Oklahoma. Reed, a devout man, seems to believe that it\u2019s his God-given mission to uphold the boundary between church and state. I don\u2019t mean to mock Reed, who is mentally unstable\u2014but there\u2019s something fascinating in his determination to reduce monuments to rubble. Cleve R. Wootson Jr. writes: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2017\/06\/28\/why-one-man-keeps-ramming-his-car-into-ten-commandments-statues-on-government-property\/?tid=pm_pop&amp;utm_term=.425e1d070a36\" target=\"_blank\">He sent a rambling letter to the newspaper apologizing and describing the voices in his head and his attempts to recover from mental health issues<\/a>. He also detailed one incident where voices told him to crash\u00a0his car into other vehicles, but instead he wrecked on a highway median. In the past, he\u2019s walked into federal buildings to spit on portraits, made threats against former president Barack Obama and set money on fire \u2026 Reed appears to allude to the Oklahoma toppling incident in a Facebook post before the Arkansas statue was rammed. \u2018I\u2019m a firm believer that for our salvation we not only have faith in Jesus Christ \u2026 But one thing I do not support is the violation of our constitutional right to have the freedom that\u2019s guaranteed to us, that guarantees us the separation of church and state, because no one religion should the government represent.\u2019 Later, he says he\u2019s \u2018back at it again,\u2019 and asks for people to donate money to help repair his car.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Detroit, meanwhile, a new exhibition called \u201c99 Cents or Less\u201d looks at the role of the dollar store in contemporary America. Chris Hampton writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/28\/arts\/design\/museum-of-contemporary-art-detroit-99-cents-or-less.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts\" target=\"_blank\">The museum\u2019s senior curator at large, Jens Hoffmann, invited participants to consider the dollar store\u2014and its proliferation since the Great Recession\u2014as an emblem of widening economic inequality, globalization, complex supply chains and rampant consumerism<\/a> \u2026 Detroit has an especially high concentration of dollar stores, Mr. Hoffmann pointed out. Products that might once have been made there are now born in South, Southeast and East Asian factories\u2014delivered and sold for less than a buck \u2026 Acknowledging \u2018it\u2019s where most of America shops,\u2019 the Los Angeles\u2013based artist Sean Raspet sampled surface cleaners available in Detroit dollar stores and mixed them together, turning the resulting solution over to the maintenance staff to use on their regular rounds, emphasizing the sort of labor and goods that are often made invisible \u2026 Agnieszka Kurant offered a darker take, likening dollar-store goods to palliatives, painkillers and placebos. She bought items like self-help books, hula hoops, cooking utensils, ramen noodles and had the lot industrially pulverized, then pressed by a compacting company into pills.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our managing editor, Nicole Rudick, takes a second look at <em>The Parable of the Blind<\/em>, a 1985 novel by Gert Hofmann: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/second-read\/a-parable-for-the-distance-between-language-and-truth\" target=\"_blank\">It is told solely through dialogue and sets the reader adrift amid unreliable accounts<\/a>. Reissued this month, with a new afterword by the author\u2019s son, the poet and translator Michael Hofmann, <em>Parable<\/em> offers sly, strikingly contemporary commentary on the precariousness of language and facts, and, in particular, on the need to negotiate unstable ground\u2014literally, but also socially and politically\u2014afresh each day. <em>The Parable of the Blind<\/em> gives narrative form to Pieter Bruegel\u2019s eponymous 1568 painting, in which six blind men have begun to tumble, like dominoes, into a ditch, illustrating the old maxim concerning the dangers of the blind leading the blind \u2026 The world beyond their sightless eyes seems prankish and spurious by turns\u2014there to trick them, or not really there at all. \u2018Every move is an ontological pratfall, a philosophical banana peel,\u2019 Michael Hofmann writes in his afterword. The slipperiness of vision, sight, and appearance is a readymade joke for both the blind and the sighted.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Crofts on those unsung heroes, ghostwriters: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/fame-machine-ghostwriter-crofts\/\" target=\"_blank\">The hiring of a ghostwriter is a mutually seductive process<\/a>. Those who are ghosted know that their reputations are going to be channeled through our eyes, and they are eager to make the right impression while at the same time maintaining the upper hand. They tend to like to meet in their palatial homes or in hotels that they think will reflect well on them \u2026 You can expect that they will entertain you royally while they are telling you their secrets, but once the job is over, so is your relationship \u2026 You want to encourage them to open up and tell you more, not clam up and become defensive. You are producing the book that they would write if they could, so any views expressed in it are theirs and not yours. You are writing in their voices, taking on their characters, pleading their case for them more eloquently than they are able to do for themselves.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEnvironmental Exposure,\u201d an exhibition at Stanford University\u2019s Cantor Arts Center, looks back to the landscape photography of the seventies, when a raft of environmental concerns began to shape the medium. Matthew Harrison Tedford writes that a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/386652\/the-american-landscape-photographers-who-focused-on-the-environment-in-the-70s\/\" target=\"_blank\">desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardgreenberg.com\/artists\/frank-gohlke\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Gohlke<\/a>\u2019s <em>Landscape, Albuquerque<\/em> (1974) takes this iconoclasm to its natural conclusion. Confidently asserting with its title that we are looking at a landscape, the image offers nothing natural except for the cloudy New Mexico sky and a fraction of a hill in the distance. A smooth concrete embankment occupies a third of the image, and the horizon line is populated with cars and billboards. Even the mud at the bottom of the embankment is branded by tire tracks.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: a man intent on destroying monuments of the ten commandments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[35,7411,10484,29358,21447,16066,29359,29361,29362,17016,747,29357,29360,12699],"class_list":["post-112137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-art","tag-blindness","tag-cars","tag-church-and-state","tag-dollar-stores","tag-environmentalism","tag-gert-hofmann","tag-ghostwriters","tag-landscape-photography","tag-monuments","tag-novels","tag-ten-commandments","tag-the-parable-of-the-blind","tag-the-seventies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Break the Ten Commandments (Literally)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: a man intent on destroying monuments of the ten commandments; 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