“Mr. Charlip’s half-century of work cut across a wide spectrum of art forms, aesthetic registers and audiences. He drew no particular distinctions among them. All were forms of an ‘internal dance,’ as he called it, that he liked to stage in his own and other people’s minds.”
Tag: 08.18.12
Guernica (The Town) Is Doing Really Well, Thanks For Asking
Seventy-five years after Picasso painted one of his most famous pieces in a white heat after the bombing of Guernica, and after years of Basque separatist violence, the town’s reveling in peace – and being able to tell the truth.
Miss An Indie Film? Stream It (Yes, At Home, On Your Small Screen)
“A compelling case can be made that watching a movie at home — even with kids, electronic devices and easy bathroom breaks — is more immersive and less prone to distractions than going to the multiplex.”
A Whip, A Gag, A Dildo, And Some Handel
“‘The power of the operatically trained voice, it’s a superpower to get audiences engaged,’ said [director Ross] Manson, contrasting good and bad opera productions he had recently seen. ‘I was really intrigued to see if I could use this superpower for good rather than for evil.'”
John Cage – No Offense – Wasn’t Really A Composer
“There’s a legitimate question of whether these works merit the term ‘composition’ at all, given that the composer’s responsibility for what you finally hear is reduced to the minimum. Anarchy would be a better word.”
You Can Be A Critic Without Being A Sneering, Aggressive Bully
Here’s how. (New York TImes Book Review, you might want to take some notes.)
Yes, Ulysses Was More Than A Tweet
Paulo Coelho told a newspaper that Ulysses was all style, no content – and caused “great harm” to literature. Ali Smith takes him on, in stylistic (and content-rich) spades.
Bring The Entire Internet With You – In Your DNA
“‘The vast increase in capacity to synthesize and sequence DNA can be applied to store significant amounts of data,’ said pioneering synthetic biologist Drew Endy at Stanford University. … ‘If you wanted to have your library encoded in DNA, you could probably do that now.'”