Ariane Conrad
Ariane Conrad is a writer and book collaborator who worked with civil-rights advocate Van Jones on two New York Times bestsellers, Rebuild the Dream and The Green Collar Economy, and with activist and filmmaker Annie Leonard on The Story of Stuff. She recently moved to Berlin, Germany, where, she says, beer costs less than juice or water.
The Hand We’re Dealt
Dalton Conley Asks Why Some People Get Ahead And Others Fall Behind
Only two measurable socioeconomic aspects of the parents really matter in predicting who succeeds: the parents’ education, which is the most important, and the family’s wealth, which is the second most important. By “wealth” I don’t mean how much the parents make a year. I mean net worth, including savings, property, and other financial resources.
February 2015Water, Water Everywhere
Ran Ortner’s Love Affair With The Sea
If I could convey the ocean’s paradoxes, its ferocity and tenderness, in the same image, I could possibly awaken the viewer to a place where language drops away. By setting these massive, lush paintings in the artificial environment of the contemporary gallery, I intend to make it feel astonishing, to have an impact so immediate that it becomes what Kafka called an “ax for the frozen sea inside us.”
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