Why Kerry James Marshall Says He’s Done Making Public Art

“I’ve done about all the public art I think I really want to do,” the 63-year-old South Side artist reiterated in a phone interview Sunday evening from the Bronzeville studio where he has continued to work even as prices for his paintings have climbed into the stratosphere. “The work I do now, I want to be less accommodating and less compromising … There’s too many contingencies that go with public art, and there are more compromises than I think I’m going to be willing to make from here on out.”

An Artist Manager For Dance Companies Explains What She Does And How

Margaret Selby: “I work with small and mid-sized companies, so what they need is different than big companies with a lot of infrastructure. It’s not just booking dates — I always say I’m a strategist and booking is a side product. It’s really about developing an artist. … It’s important to trust your own gut. It’s about seeing something before other people recognize it, and jumping on it because you believe in it.”

What The Beatles Sounded Like Unedited

What, then, to make of this enormous reissue package, The Beatles (White Album) Super Deluxe? Seven discs—demos, sessions, a remastering—and a great big book. Doesn’t it just magnify the sprawl, increase the luggage, barnacle with further add-ons and special features this already ungainly rattle bag of a record? Answer: Yes but no, or yes but who cares, because this is The Beatles, and we want it all.