Top AJBlogs From The Weekend 05.20.18

Tribute to John Bryan from Cold Turkey Press
Cover and back page of four-page folio being published in a limited edition by Cold Turkey Press.John Bryan published so many underground papers and magazines over three decades — beginning in 1962 with renaissance, a … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2018-05-20
Losing its meaning
I don’t want to say anything bad about the royal wedding, which was lovely and inspiring. Or about Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the cellist who played so gorgeously. But one of the pieces he played was crazily … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2018-05-20
Almanac: E.M. Forster on modesty and art
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” E.M. Forster, “A Book That Influenced Me” … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-05-18
Preminger And Garcia Play Chopin
Noah Preminger, Rob Garcia Dead Composers Club Chopin Project (Connection Works Records) If I were going to be in New York City tomorrow evening—alas, I won’t be—I would be at the Cornelia … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-05-17
Picasso Fiasco: CultureGrrl Q&A with Mike Kosnitzky, Lawyer for Steve Wynn’s New Company
In my previous post about the astonishing news that unspecified damage was done at Christie’s on Friday to Picasso‘s “Le Marin,” 1943 (which had been estimated to bring around $70 million in tonight’s Contemporary Art … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2018-05-17
My Art Encounter With Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe, who died this week, was not exactly a favorite person in the art world (or the literary world,
for that matter). In a modern era, he was a throwback, a man who preferred … 
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AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2018-05-17