The word coward is one of the most contemptuous insults one can hurl at a person. And yet, argues Chris Walsh, cowardice serves more than one important social function.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Eat Your Heart Out, Rothko Chapel (And Dallas, Too): Austin Is Getting A Chapel By Ellsworth Kelly
The 91-year-old Color Field artist has given the University of Texas’s Blanton Museum of Art “an unrealized design for a chapel first conceived for a private collector in 1986. For the past two years, Kelly’s been working with the museum to finally bring the now-titled Austin chapel to pass.”
ISIS Is Burning Books And Libraries
“‘These books promote infidelity and call for disobeying Allah. So they will be burned,’ a bearded militant in traditional Afghani two-piece clothing told residents” of Mosul in ISIS-occupied Iraq. The extremists “loaded around 2,000 books – including children’s stories, poetry, philosophy and tomes on sports, health, culture and science – into six pickup trucks. They left only Islamic texts.”
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Gauguin Painting Sells For $300 Million, Highest Price Ever For A Single Work
The seller won’t confirm the identity or nationality of the buyer (yet), but where have they been spending truly massive amounts of money for art lately?
Justin Peck Dances As Last-Minute Sub In His Own New Ballet
“Last-minute injuries aren’t uncommon in ballet. What is rare is for a choreographer to appear in his or her own work along with fellow members of the same troupe.”
Conor McPherson Has Been Trying A Little Tenderness In His Ferocious, Malevolent Plays
Charles McNulty: “What is different about his most recent plays, however, is that amid the dilapidated settings, killer hangovers, corrosive humor and generalized brutality, McPherson draws our attention to moments of unexpected tenderness and camaraderie.”
Don’t Do It, Harper Lee!, Warns Bookslut
Jessa Crispin: “Those eager masses, now overflowing with unconditional love for a book they have not read, propelling it to No. 1 on Amazon Wednesday, will be the very people wielding pitchforks if Ms. Lee’s second book does not live up to expectations that have been building for decades.”
Brian Williams’s Helicopter Story Has Turned Him Into An Art Meme
“On social media, the controversy has taken on several comic dimensions, one of which is Williams’ image being added Forrest Gump-style to famous paintings depicting key moments in history.
Should Critics See Films More Than Once?
“Slippery plots become clearer after a second viewing, but some movies – such as Inherent Vice – are meant to be confusing. And if critics go back for more, are they being fair to readers, who only get one shot?”