Top Ten List (for now…):
Books:
1. Elsa Morante/ La storia
2. David Grossman/ Be My Knife
3. All Natalia Ginzburg books.
4. Jonathan Franzen/ The Corrections
5. Rainer Maria Rilke/ Letters to a Young Poet
6. Etty Hillesum/ An Interrupted Life
7.Elena Ferrante/ Days of Abandonment
8. Chinghiz Aitmatov/ The Day Last More Than a Hundred Years
9. Alice Munro/ Too Much Happiness
10. Spyros Papapetros/ On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
Movies:
1. Mister Lonely
2. Dogville
3. The White Ribbon
4. The Act of Killing
5. Closer
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Grizzly Man
8. The Deer Hunter
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
10. Lore
Albums and musicians:
1. The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. Portishead- Third
3. Lead Belly
4. Joni Mitchell
5. Nina Simone
6. Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left
7. Die Antwoord
8. The Third Eye Foundation- I Poo Poo on Your JuJu
9. Lebanon Hanover- The World is Getting Colder
10. PJ Harvey- Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Artists:
1. Pierre Huyghe
2. African art
3. Albrecht Dürer
4. Hironimous Bosch
5. Mika Rotenberg
6. Art of ancient Egypt
7. Isa Genzken
8. Louise Bourgeois
9. Rachel Harrison
10. Uri Nir
Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar 