“Though it wasn’t exactly a book, it was a how-to manual, a compendium, an enyclopedia, a literary review, an opinionated life guide, and a collection of readers’ recommendations and reviews of everything from computational physics to goat husbandry. … [It] came to be the magnum opus of the entire counterculture.”
Tag: 05.05.13
Why Doesn’t The Art Establishment Respect The Most Successful American Artist Since Warhol?
“Much has always been made of the fact that [Jeff] Koons is in league with the plutocrats and once worked on Wall Street, selling commodities. But he’s always been quick to refuse the art world’s carefully patrolled shibboleths – that work has personal meaning, that it must contain some social criticism, that it express ambivalence about the art market. Koons does not make ambivalent work.”
How Data Is Changing Entertainment
“The same kind of numbers analysis that has reshaped areas like politics and online marketing is increasingly being used by the entertainment industry.”
Met Museum To Return Prized Statues To Cambodia
“The 10th century Khmer statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants, have flanked the entrance to the Met’s South East Asian galleries for years and are among the museum’s most prized objects from the region.”
Ballet Students On Two Continents Collaborate Through Technology
“Dancers in Toronto will sometimes be in front of the screen, sometimes behind it for a translucent effect, with the performers in Amsterdam posing a “question” physically and the students in Toronto creating an answer. Then, the piece finishes with all the dancers on stage, moving in unison with those on screen.”
Detroit Artist Repeatedly Rebuilds Art The City’s Mayors Have Tried To Destroy
“He’ll rebuild. It’s what he does and who he is — a soulful genius, part gadfly and part visionary, 100% original and as charming as a kitten and as stubborn as a hound dog when it comes to his work. And the meaning of the project will once again deepen, accumulating another layer of expressive history tied to the epic struggle of modern Detroit and the power of art to transform experience and remake the world.”
Peter Maxwell Davies Fighting Leukemia
“The composer said yesterday he had been feeling unwell and run down for some time, but he was shocked when he was diagnosed with leukaemia in March.”
Niall Ferguson Is Daft: People With Children Are The Selfish Ones
“All the promises such as ‘I’ll still come on that march/go to that conference/burn down that sex shop’ disappear when they sprog. All those in my circle with offspring seem to become unhealthily obsessed with their own little world. Principles go out of the window.”
At Lortel Awards, ‘Piano Lesson’ and ‘Whale’ Turn Up Winners
“‘The Piano Lesson’ won the most awards in competition — four — for outstanding revival, director (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), lead actress (Roslyn Ruff) and featured actor (Chuck Cooper).”
When A Lockout Ends At Last
“We’re trying to concentrate on how to get back the love of our audience. We need to sit down and play the music we love.”