08.06.17 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

The Sheer Dumb Luck Of This First-Time Documentarian Helped Bring Down Cycling’s Biggest Doping Ring

Right place, right time: “When he set out to make Icarus, the playwright and actor Bryan Fogel had one goal: to examine how easy it is to get away with doping in professional sport. … What actually happened was a bit like tugging on an errant thread and having the entire clothing industry unravel right on top of you.”

Cindy Sherman And Instagram Are A Match Made In Art Selfie Heaven

Love emoji, thumbs-up emoji: “Her new mobile selfies are by turns outlandish, hilarious and poignant. They demystify the influences and experiments of a great artist, even as they also point to the gap between Ms. Sherman’s vital, unsettling practice of sideways self-portraiture and the narcissistic practice of selfie snapping.”

A Mom Gets Told To Cover Up While Breastfeeding In The V&A, A Museum That Contains Many Bare Breasts

The woman was not taking the suggestion – which is against V&A policy – lightly. “Instead of bearing that in silence, she busted out her phone and started tweeting. She ribbed the V&A, pointing out that the museum seemed totally fine with some bare bosoms — as long as they were made of stone instead of flesh.”

Tech Companies Are Rotten At The Core

The problem is way larger than any high-level Googler’s anonymous anti-equity rant. “The kind of computing systems that get made and used by people outside the industry, and with serious consequences, are a direct byproduct of the gross machismo of computing writ large. More women and minorities are needed in computing because the world would be better for their contributions—and because it might be much worse without them.”

A Critic Writes A Second Review Of A Photography Exhibit, Because The First Was Not Enough

John Yau: “It is not that I was dissatisfied more than usual with what I had written. Writers are always vexed by what they have written. In this case, something else about the works wouldn’t leave me alone. The impetus came from pieces that I did and didn’t write about. I decided to go back to the exhibition and look again. I wanted to figure out what I had not gotten to the first time, and which could not wait.”

A Pink Guggenheim? A Mile-High Skyscraper? Frank Lloyd Wright Really Did Hate New York

In retrospect, they were city-based but anti-urban projects, divorced from the streets, in thrall to cars. A mass of contradictions, Wright, the inexhaustible genius, was, in these as in so many other projects, a maker and mirror of the American century. His archives should keep scholars busy for at least the rest of the post-American one.

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