“Thicker ink, fewer smudges, and more strained hands: an Object Lesson.”
Tag: 08.25.15
Little Girl Breaks 2,000-Year-Old Vase, And Museum Is Thrilled
No, she didn’t pull an Ai Weiwei. “A little girl accidentally broke a 2,000-year-old glass vessel during a visit to the Israel Museum on Sunday. The museum said the object has now been repaired and is in better shape than it was before.”
You Should Know The Work Of These 12 Choreographers
“From the early days of the Great White Way to the greatest hits of the past ten years, here are 12 legendary choreographers who have (literally) given shape to Broadway as we know it.”
Time To Abolish The Idea That Social Interaction Is A “Science”?
“Social science was — it is best to speak in the past tense — a mistake. The dream of a comprehensive science of society, which would elucidate “laws of history” or “social laws” comparable to the physical determinants or “laws” of nature, was one of the great delusions of the 19th century.”
Sometimes You End Up Having To Paint Your Castle Yellow: The Perils Of Historical Restoration
“The story of how the restoration of the Great Hall of Stirling Castle led to it being painted bright yellow illustrates the unexpected complexity … It comes down to this question: When you choose to restore something, at which moment in time are you restoring it to?” (podcast with transcription)
Dangerous Satire? Americans Know Nothing Of Dangerous Satire
“America simply never had a Werner Finck, and we certainly don’t have a Bassem Youssef, even though we’d like to think we do. It is far safer and easier to canonize Chaplin’s ballet performance [in The Great Dictator] while forgetting the unsafe, uneasy provocations of Finck [and Youssef]. Americans tolerate bullshit even when we know – we know – it’s bullshit. At the best of times, there is something luxurious about this.”
Stop Calling It ‘The Bechdel Test,’ Says Alison Bechdel
After all, as she’s been saying for years, she wasn’t the one who came up with the idea. She simply put it in a comic strip, where it was eventually noticed.
Ten London Museums Do A Virtual Collection Swap Via Instagram
“Using the hashtag #museuminstaswap, each participating institution will share photos of its partner museum throughout the week, highlighting works that resonate with their own collections.”
Cultural Appropriation – A Weapon Of Mass Destruction?
“I worry that if we reach a place where a charge of cultural appropriation becomes a trump card, instantly condemning a work of art, a fashion line or a fitness craze, we won’t delve deeper on the important questions raised by cultural exchange.”
Radical Sandcastles – Now HERE’s Some Pathbreaking Architecture For You
“His creations look nothing like classical interpretations. Instead of mounds and turrets and moats, [Matt] Kaliner’s structures are drippy archways that twist, jut, climb, and at times appear suspended in midair. They are otherwordly, like something you’d find on a beach in Neverland, or what it might look like if Antoni Gaudi had designed the fictional island of Laputa in a dream.”