Chris Kasper planned for a union for arts workers. Then he got his MFA and moved to New York. “When I would score jobs, I would just feel grateful to be working (no matter how insane or abusive the person or organization I was working for) at a rate of 15 to 20 bucks an hour. The people I worked next to were all in the same boat I was.”
Tag: 10.11
Here’s A Challenging Job: Updating The Lonely Planet Guide To Libya
A writer for the travel book franchise recounts her experiences working through the Revolution.
Graffiti As Visual Language Of Something Else
“By now, grand graffiti gestures are as tired as could be, at least in the context of the Western art world. But across the rest of the planet, the static language of the American ‘piece’ has moved on to a second life as the visual lingua franca of genuine political speech.”
Reconsidering The Great American City
Many of America’s “great cities journeyed to the brink of expiration before eventually finding new life. Many of the cities wracked by riots, deindustrialization, and depopulation in the 1960s and 1970s enjoyed a renaissance in recent decades.”
Lars von Trier Honestly Can’t Help Saying Outrageous Things (And He’s Not Sorry)
“This is why I shouldn’t do interviews – I should just shut up and I should do my films. … I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.” (His interviewer writes, “This will turn out to be absolutely true.”)