Tag: 11.20.18

Australian Aboriginal Art And Immanuel Kant

“There is beauty here in exactly the way that Kant meant the word, a beauty that comes from the pleasure of looking at designs that ‘mean nothing on their own.’ … The problem is that … Aboriginal artists aren’t working with anything like a Kantian conception of a free play of the faculties and they have, in the vast majority of cases, no interest in the idea of abstraction as that idea emerged in … painting in the 20th century.”

We Each Have Our Own Oscar Wilde

“Saint Oscar; Wilde the Irishman; Wilde the wit. The classicist; the socialist; the martyr for gay rights. … So if Oscar’s ultimate genius was to allow us to see ourselves in him, what do we see in 2018? And what is there left still to see in a life that ended prematurely and has been so closely scrutinized?”

The Art Of Imaginary Facts

“In a landscape where ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ are part of our everyday vocabulary, this term might put some on the back foot – but the crucial difference between an imaginary fact and an alternative one is that the audience is fully aware [that the former] is a pretence.” Most of us are familiar with the concept in the form of “mockumentary” films and TV shows such as This Is Spinal Tap and The Office, but it’s now stretching into museums as well.

Our System For Dealing With Artworks Looted By The Nazis Has Failed: Noah Charney

“On December 3, 1998, 44 world governments and 13 international NGOs came together in Washington D.C. to develop a guide for dealing with Nazi-looted art. … On November 26-18, a conference in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of these goals” — known as “the Washington Principles” — “will assess the success of these objectives. But it seems like there are some tough conversations to be had.”

Author Of Memoir About Escaping Gang Life Shot Dead After Book Launch

“[Nedim] Yasar, who was born in Turkey and arrived in Denmark at the age of four, had led the Copenhagen-based criminal gang Los Guerreros – a notorious gang with links to the drugs trade, according to police. He quit the gang in 2012” and had just published a book titled Roots: A Gangster’s Way Out. He was shot as he was leaving a launch party at a Copenhagen bookstore.

Bootleg Concert Recording Is Thriving In The 21st Century

Unlike most every other part of the music world, taping has not only thrived in the 21st century but come into its own, from advanced cell phone gadgetry (like DPA’s iPhone-ready d:vice MMA-A digital audio interface) to compact handheld recorders (like Zoom’s varied line of products), from high-speed distribution to metadata organization. Despite constant radical change, taping has never been disrupted. Rather, it has positively flowered.

‘How Has This Show Not Been Cancelled?’ How ‘South Park’ Keeps Going In The Age Of The Outraged Tweet

“In fairness, it is genuinely quite surprising that it’s managing to survive in 2018, a time where making a joke about something horrible is now deemed nearly as bad as the horrible thing itself. South Park season 22 has therefore had to change in order to ensure its survival in the outrage era. As the world – well, the world of Twitter at least – gets angrier and more reactionary, [Trey] Parker and [Matt] Stone have had to fine-tune their satire, making the takeaways of each episode more balanced than ever before.”