“Cold War modernism,” then, doesn’t refer to experimental artwork produced between the end of World War II and the Reagan administration, but to “the deployment of modernist art as a weapon of Cold War propaganda by both governmental and unofficial actors as well as to the implicit and explicit understanding of modernism underpinning that deployment.
Tag: 02.02.16
Remember That Time When Google Was Buddying Up To Librarians? (Long Gone)
“Don’t get me wrong, we’re doing pretty great on our own, better than ever really. We’ve gotten a bit more independent, not putting all of our eggs into any one basket, gotten better at establishing boundaries. Still not sure, after all that, how we got this all so wrong. Didn’t we both want the same thing? Maybe it really wasn’t us, it was them. Most days it’s hard to remember what we saw in Google. Why did we think we’d make good partners?”
Intizar Hussain, Pakistan’s ‘Greatest Fiction Writer’, Dead At 92
“The prolific author was known for his novels, short stories, columns and poetry and belatedly saw worldwide recognition when he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013 and was awarded France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres a year later.”
Bollywood’s Very First Stars Were Jewish Women
When silent movies came to India, there were almost no experienced actresses there: respectable Indian women did not appear on the public stage. So most of the stars – some of whom also produced and wrote – came from the Baghdadi Jewish community in Bombay and the Bene Israel in Maharashtra. (One of them was the first Miss India.)
Temporary Opera House, Built Entirely Of Wood, Opens In Geneva
The 1,118-seat venue, called the Opéra des Nations, “was recycled from a temporary building used in Paris when the French capital’s Comédie Française itself underwent renovations.” It will be used for 2½ years while Geneva’s Grand Théâtre undergoes renovation. The acoustics are said to be excellent.
How Do Rich People Make Their Libraries Great? They Call This Bookstore
“‘It’s not that we’re selling by the yard,’ said the store manager, Nicky Dunne. ‘But if they’re interested in a subject’ — 19th-century French topiary, Brutalist architecture, salmon husbandry or something more obscure — ‘and haven’t properly explored books on that subject, then they come to us.'”
‘If You Don’t Feel It, You Can’t Do It’ – Diary Of A Flamenco Superstar
Sara Baras: “It takes courage, but flamenco artists often have longer careers than other kinds of dancers. They learn to adapt themselves to a type of exercise that develops extra agility and vigour. Older flamenco dancers can perform with a strength that you will not find in other dance genres.”
T.S. Eliot Adored Detective Fiction
“Eliot’s attitude toward popular art forms was more capacious and ambivalent than he’s often given credit for. … And it so happens that, well before detective stories came into vogue among [Edmund] Wilson’s cohort, Eliot had become one of the genre’s most passionate and discerning readers.”
Winona Ryder, Holden Caulfield, And The ’90s
“‘The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.’ At 17, Winona Ryder underlined those words by Holden Caulfield in one of two copies of The Catcher in the Rye she was carrying with her. ‘Me and Holden are, like, this team,’ she said.” Because she turned out to be completely incapable of phoniness, even when it might have done her some good.
‘Jon Stewart Of Egypt’ To Get Series On U.S. Elections
The satirist Bassem Youssef, now in exile after one too many visits from Egyptian security forces, “will host The Democracy Handbook for F Comedy, Fusion’s new digital platform,” as part of the network’s 2016 election coverage. “The series … follows Youssef as he comes to America to learn the lessons of democracy.”