“UX is sort of like an artist’s collective, but far from being avant-garde–confronting audiences by pushing the boundaries of the new–its only audience is itself. More surprising still, its work is often radically conservative, intemperate in its devotion to the old. Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and repair, with an ethos of ‘restoring those invisible parts of our patrimony that the government has abandoned or doesn’t have the means to maintain’.”
Tag: 02.27.12
How A Silent Movie Few People Have Seen Won The Best Picture Oscar
“The film hasn’t made much money in America but that’s not the point – the point was getting those 6,000 voters fully au fait with it. It’s the perfect campaign.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov – Now A Photographer Of Dance
As a new show of his photographer opens in Miami, “‘I’m interested in focusing on body parts, the movements which really one cannot notice in the audience,’ says Baryshnikov, 64. He knows what he’s looking for, after all, and he can get a backstage pass anywhere in the world.”
Do Novels No Longer Matter To Contemporary Culture?
The novel plays a different and a diminished role in our cultural life as compared with even the quite recent past.