The themes will be similar to anyone who has followed the artist’s work. “‘These issues of power and control and physical damage and death and predation are ages old,’ Ms. Kruger said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. ‘I wish some of these issues would become archaic.'”
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How Joan Didion Escaped The Writer Publicity Grind (And Sure As Heck Isn’t On Twitter)
Despite two highly autobiographical books and a new movie about her, Didio “isn’t fully a celebrity. She isn’t fully an author, in the modern way of it. To be an author, today, is generally to be required, repeatedly, to acquiesce: to give in to demands of omnipresence, of performative relatability. To live-tweet The Bachelor. To write op-eds in the Times. To accept that being part of the zeitgeist requires that one first accept the terms of geistiness: disembodied, environmental, miasmic. To be an author, today, is in some part to sacrifice oneself.”
Top AJBlogs For The Weekend 10.29.17
Tea for Three? Take a Seat
Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer get together at Saint Mark’s Church. (L to R): Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, and Steve Paxton rehearsing. Photo: Ian Douglas “It is better to have loved and lost … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2017-10-28
A Turning of The Tide?
SINCE I turned my book Culture Crash in four years ago, a few things I described have proven me a bit pessimistic. (Visual art may be healthier than I predicted, and music steaming has … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2017-10-27
Three critics in a studio, wrangling
The second episode of Three on the Aisle, the new podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading. In this … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-10-27
Almanac: Hermann Hesse on classical music
“We consider classical music to be the epitome and quintessence of our culture, because it is that culture’s clearest, most significant gesture and expression. In this music we possess the heritage of classical antiquity and … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-10-27
A Timely Movie About Making Art – In Complete Anonymity – Under Dictatorship
The film’s director, Paula Markovitch: “My parents were artists and they were intelligent at a terrible time. The dictatorship not only persecuted academics, it persecuted anyone intelligent. In that sense they were internal exiles. Exile are those who fled, those who escaped the dictatorship going to other countries. And the internal exiles were those who hid within the same territory.”
An Older Queen’s Unlikely Friendship Brought Curry To The High Tables Of Britain (And Beyond)
Abdul Karim, sent to England as a gift to serve at Queen Victoria’s table, became one of her closest confidants. Though the relationship, says NPR, was “clearly maternal” on her side, the outcome of the friendship wasn’t simply that she learned some Urdu. “A spicier outcome of this friendship was the elevation of a dish already popular in England: curry.”