“After one take, Zeitlin sidled up to [his young star, Quvenzhané Wallis] and said, ‘That was good. I just need a little more subtlety.’ Wallis put him in his place. ‘I said, ‘I’m 6 years old!” she recalls. ”Do you really think I know what subtlety means? Come on! Gimme a kid word!'”
Tag: 12.12
What Happens To Us When The Robots Take Over
“It may be hard to believe, but before the end of this century, 70 percent of today’s occupations will likewise be replaced by automation.”
The Problem With Cult-ifying Mozart
“Once we invest music with supernal qualities, once we maintain (there are learned papers to this effect) that Mozart can ease childbirth pains and stimulate brain cells in laboratory rats, it ceases to be music at all and becomes a part of humdrum mundanity, along with unemployment statistics and the football results. Sooner or later, you will read that Mozart can cure cancer.”
Museums Without Objects – Rethinking The Whole Idea Of “Colonial” Museums
“To actively ignore existing objects and collections ends in a disregard of the complex systems in which they produce meaning. Yet despite fancy and politically driven exhibitions, ethnographic museums still seem to be haunted by the collections and the coloniality that they represent, even if this is not immediately apparent in the exhibition venues.”
How The Communications Revolution Has Changed Culture
“Through the Internet and the new tools of communication we see a tremendous development of young amateurs who make things, create videos, short films, music. Not all this output is brilliant, but this activity tells us that what Nietzsche calls “the will to power” is today’s will to create. This will is something consumer society hasn’t destroyed, nor has it managed to turn people into entities that only want brand names.”
Why You Shouldn’t Necessarily Trust Those Pop-Psy Studies
“When you have scientific evidence, and you put that against your intuition, and you have so little trust in the scientific evidence that you side with your gut–something is broken.”
100 Years Since The Historic Armory Changed The Art World
“The year 1913 was more than the unofficial start of the twentieth century. It was a highpoint in both European and American cultural innovation.”
Banking And Art – There’s A Reason They’re Related
“It’s possible that there is no limit to what bankers will pay for these visual inventions, ones so like their own and yet eluding them all the same.”
Making Sense Of Outbursts Against The Art World
“These outbursts are an interesting phenomenon. But they are little more than the noise of a violent change in fashion. It is the art world crying out for a new style of presentation, but not for a new art.”
It’s Been 25 Years Since Joseph Epstein Killed Poetry
“Epstein intended his essay to be incendiary, and it did ignite an explosion of criticism.”