January 2010
27 posts
The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949) →
Participants: George Boas, Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Burke, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Frankenstein, Robert Goldwater, Darius Milhaud, Andrew C Richie, Arnold Schoenburg, Mark Tobey and Frank Lloyd Wright. Audio, images, transcripts, notes.
“Software aside (which is a huge thing to put aside), it may well be that no...”
– John Gruber
“I cannot emphasise enough this point: ‘Hold your judgment until...”
– Stephen Fry’s terrific on the iPad.
Berlin to Resurrect its Disgraced Monuments →
100 of them. Exhibition slated for 2013.
What's on David Bowie's iPod? →
And: “Why is Spotify not available in my country?”
Twitter Modern Classics →
Tweets you’d skim over suddenly become objects you’d pay for.
Slide Show: Luc Tuymans →
Sanford Schwartz at the NYRblog.
“Here are some major recent developments in world hotspots that have gotten short...”
– Joshua Keating, “Checking in on the rest of the world,” FP Passport
“At best, the Obama administration will finish healthcare reform through...”
– And all thanks to Massachusetts? Yes; as Stephen Burt explains in the London Review Blog, it’s not the state you probably think it is.
We Love You So has just posted three works by Henry Darger, and the moment the page loaded, one name came immediately to mind: Neo Rauch. I’ve known the work of both artists fairly well for some time, and it’s only now that I’ve made the association? It suddenly seems so obvious, and yet, googling around (and not digging too deeply, I’ll admit), I can only find one instance...
“When influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the...”
– Paul Morley, introducing “On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno” in the Observer. Some of the snippets from the interview may already be familiar, but I’ll bet at least a few aren’t. I’m particularly amused that even Eno worries about...
“So our job is to tell them: Be interested in what doesn’t interest you, make a...”
– Alexander Segert, who oversaw the design of the poster for the Swiss People’s Party’s campaign to ban new minarets, in Michael Kimmelman’s piece on how the role of political posters is quite different in Europe than it is in the US.
Peter Hallward on ‘Our role in Haiti’s plight’ in... →
And the New Left Review and the London Review of Books. Links and excerpts at Verso UK’s Blog. You knew there had to be a guilt trip to be taken in this catastrophe, and yes, there is, and yes, it is real.
“Note to Pat Robertson: Haiti is not a nation of Vodou practitioners. It is, and...”
– Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, “‘Biblical’ Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti,” ReligionDispatches
Alright, another question. At BOMB, Jackie Saccoccio’s been asking painters, “What is the current state of abstraction?”
Via Michael Sippey, this year’s question at the Edge: “How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?”
“If there’s anything I really regret about this decade, it’s impatience. I mourn...”
– Nick Southall, introducing The Stylus Decade
Landscape Suicide: The Wind #3 →
Whistler and Ivens.
U B U W E B →
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of Documenta 13, lists up a top ten. Fairly murky tea leaves, considering the limited range of choices (albeit vital and wonderful and invaluable, of course!), but still.
“If you already have an iPhone and a MacBook; why would you want this? The...”
– John Gruber, “Daring Fireball: The Tablet”