David Batchelor: “As with all prejudices, its manifest form, its loathing, masks a fear: a fear of contamination and corruption by something that is unknown or appears unknowable. This loathing of colour, this fear of corruption through colour, needs a name: chromophobia.”
Tag: 03.09.17
SoCal’s Pacific Symphony Musicians Get New Contract – With A Real Raise
The agreement, which was agreed-on in principle in late October but took until mid-February to draft, increases musicians’ pay by 10.4% over its five-year term.
Marilyn Young, Historian Of And Challenger To The U.S.’s Forever Wars, Has Died At 79
“In one form or another, she explained in 2012, since her childhood the United States had been at war —’“the wars were not really limited and were never cold and in many places have not ended — in Latin America, in Africa, in East, South and Southeast Asia.'”
When Private Funding Drives The Arts, You Get The Mall Of America Writer’s Residency
No, that’s not a joke. Marie Myung-Ok Lee: “When I saw the ad promoting a residency at the Mall of America, my first impulse was ‘I must apply!’ See, a bunch of scenes in my novel take place in the freaking Mall of America! It had a nice honorarium ($2,500) for 5 days in residence at a connected mall hotel, plus a $400 food stipend, which is a lot of Cinnabons. But a quick look at the terms reveals the horrifying things the artist gives up in the for-profit residency: her art.”
The German Devil That Climbs Into Your Computer To Insert Typos
And that devil is a necessary creation, for spelling is important in Germany. “When you misspell to a German, you don’t just overlook the language: you libel it; you defile it; you annihilate it.”
A Guide To The Usually Overlooked Brutalist Icons Of Paris
“The hard lines and raw material of these buildings, captured in Nigel Green’s crisp photographs that accompany the map, seem out of place in this French city of past regencies and Haussmann’s 19th-century design,” but perhaps they show what Paris could, or should, be.
Theatre Could Act To Stabilize American Society, If Practitioners Decided To Commit
Jonathan Wei of the Telling Project: “Art can provide the opportunity for inquiry, immediacy, presence, receptivity, and vulnerability. It can provide a space for the expression of the primary desire to expand one’s world, to embrace rather than exclude, to experience rather than define, to immerse rather than to understand, and to contemplate rather than formulate.”
Sonia Braga Wonders If A Latinx Actor Can Get In On The Oscars Love
“The Oscars really only have four spaces for best actress, because one is always reserved for Meryl Streep.”
A Sonata Misattributed To Felix Mendelssohn Debuts Under Its Real Authorship
Written in 1829, the manuscript of “Easter Sonata” was considered “lost” for more than 140 years, until the original turned up in a French book shop bearing the signature “F Mendelssohn.” The collector who bought it concluded the “F” stood for Felix. It didn’t…
How Should We Think About Extinction Of A Species? The Answer Lies At The Intersection Of Science And Art
Should we be horrified by extinction? Charles Darwin didn’t think so. In On the Origin of Species, he mocked the catastrophist view of extinction as scientific illiteracy: “So profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world!” Extinction was no cataclysm. Without it, the human species—along with all other life—would never have evolved.