“4. What do they look like? They aren’t pictures of anything really. They’re certainly not paintings of actual soup cans. Nor are they really paintings of the label. He worked not from actual cans with actual labels, but from promotional materials that Campbell’s sent out. In other words, these aren’t so much pictures of either cans or labels, as they are reproductions or copies of commercial graphics, blending design and text. What kind of objects are these? These soups/works kick up this question like so much dust.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
‘The Moth In The Flame’ – An Unpublished Short Story By Truman Capote
“Written for his high school newspaper, The Green Witch, in the early 1940s, … ‘The Moth in the Flame’ captures in a very short space the vast range of tumultuous emotions that spring from a distressing encounter.”
The Most Anticipated New Restaurant In Providence Turned Out To Be An Art Project Satirizing Foodie Culture
Lura Cafe “would be a refuge for diners in the know, serving modern takes on cafe classics – all local, all organic, all certified GMO-free. It was upscale and casual, timeless and avant-garde. … It announced itself – as all similarly accoutred restaurants must – with a social media blitz, featuring sans serif lettering, sunny high-angle shots of brunch dishes, even a breathless write-up in the New York Times. It was also totally fake.”
Four Centuries Of Cat Art Go Up For Auction
“The sale … is one of the largest of its kind to occur in the UK, featuring 244 works – and the trove is really delightful, bringing to public eye many rare and original illustrations that depict cats in a variety of ways, from straightforward portraits to bizarre or humorous caricatures.”
SXSW Cancels Panel On Harassment In Gaming – Because Of Harassment And Threats
“The decision has been widely panned online, news organizations including Vox Media and BuzzFeed have threatened to not attend, and the situation has been cast as a win for the angry and misogynistic teratoma of trolls that identify themselves as part of the Gamergate movement. Meanwhile, SXSW’s official explanation for the cancellations is a misdirected mess.”
I Was On One Of Those Canceled SXSW Panels – Here Is What Went Down
User-experience designer and researcher Caroline Sinders explains the planned focus of the panel (titled “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games”), the abuse she and family members had previously suffered from GamerGate types, the strange dynamic that developed around her panel proposal, and the even stranger responses of SXSW staff.
‘Boulez Is Napoleon, Stockhausen Is Just Bismarck’: A 1967 Interview With Morton Feldman, In English For The First Time
This interview … was conducted in 1967 by composer and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur, then aged twenty. … [It] was conducted in English originally, but the audiotapes have been lost. Therefore until now this interview has only been available in French translation.”
London’s Handel House Museum Opens A Hendrix Half
“In the mid-18th century, George Frideric Handel wrote his epic oratorio Messiah in a Georgian town house here. Around 230 years later, Jimi Hendrix moved in next door. Now, a revamped museum dedicated to both musical pioneers is set to open Feb. 10 on Brook Street in the Mayfair district, in the adjacent apartments where they lived.”
Nobody Does Haunted Houses Better Than The Japanese
“I screamed more in that tiny haunt than I did walking through some of the top haunts in the United States with every high-priced animatronic and 20-foot-tall monster available. I believe the key difference was how immersed I was in the story and the personal connection I felt with the girl and the ghost.”
London’s West End Theatres Are Not ‘Fit For The 21st Century,’ Says Former National Theatre Chief
“Nick Starr has claimed the West End’s current ‘old and ageing’ playhouses are unable to accommodate [any] contemporary theatremaking … that is more innovative in form than revivals of old plays, and said new venues were needed to provide homes for theatremakers who want to create for spaces that are non-proscenium arch.”