“The use of timber could transform the way we build in this city,” said PLP partner Kevin Flanagan. “Timber buildings have the potential architecturally to create a more pleasing, relaxed, sociable and creative urban experience”
Tag: 04.08.16
‘Our National Antidote’ – An Old Friend Tries To Make Sense Of Harper Lee
“Nelle Harper Lee scoffed at her National Treasure status. … [She] was more like the National Antidote – probably she would have preferred emetic, or gag reflex, something that expressed her unwillingness to humor the Chamber of Commerce or our contemporary age of ubiquity and oversaturation.”
Homintern: The Gay Cultural Mafia That Transformed 20th-Century Culture
“Homintern” – a riff on Lenin’s Comintern – “was the name various people jokingly coined to describe a sprawling, informal network of contacts that occupied a prominent site near the centre of modern life. It may have started as a joke, but it was taken all too seriously by those whom it infuriated.”
Ten Gay Works That Changed The Modern World
Philip Hensher’s list runs from the expected (Proust) to the … well, not (Ellen’s talk show changed the culture?).
An Art App That Uses Facial Recognition Tech To Tell You Exactly What You’re Looking At
“The user takes a photo of an artwork with a mobile device. Within seconds, Magnus provides the name of the artist, gallery price, past dealer and auction prices of other works, and the artist’s exhibition history. The image can be shared via text, email, Instagram, Facebook and other social media, and saved in the user’s digital collection.”
Ad Exec: Three Ways Advertisers Have Gone Wrong (And Arts Orgs?)
“I’ve come to believe that most marketers target young people because they see everyone else doing it. And they assume that somewhere someone must know why we are doing this. The marketing industry has been spending too much time on another planet. We need to get back down to earth.”
Fan Fiction: Peter Schjeldahl On The Computer-Generated Rembrandt
“Like its literary equivalents, it mimics the effect of a particular creator’s art. Working backward from that point, it passes the creator’s intention – intelligence, emotion, soul – coming the other way. There’s no harm in it.”
Bang On A Can Marathon, New York’s Favorite New Music Event, Is Now Homeless
“They need to find somewhere else to bang on their cans. [The popular 12-hour annual festival] will not be held this year in New York City because it has lost its space and presenting partner of the past decade, the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan” (formerly the World Financial Center).
Top European Art Award Cancelled After Two Of Five Finalists Withdraw
Said the awards committee, “The jury believes that the recent discussion has overshadowed the intentions of the award and could eventually comprise the nominated artists.” The chairman added, “It is the strong idea of the jury that the Vincent should be about art. But that was not the case any longer.”
Naked Donald Trump Painting Going Up In London Today, Despite Death Threats
Artist Illma Gore: “While it is obviously a great shame that I cannot exhibit it in the USA due to censorship and also threats from Trump supporters to harm both myself and the artwork, I am so excited that it will finally be exhibited in a gallery space where interested parties can come and see it ‘in the flesh.'”