“Do we really think some landlord is going to give a damn about the culture of the working class? This was an art form invented by the children of the working class, not children with last names like Trump or Rockefeller.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Is This A Pollock? Science And Art Don’t Agree
“Science has its limits. Paint or paper may help establish the date of a work, while hair and fibers can help pinpoint where it was made. A work’s provenance must also be verified. Still, connoisseurs — as well as most auction houses who rely on them — maintain that true authorship cannot be established without an expert evaluation.”
Let Us Consider Hercule Poirot, The Time-Lapse Detective
The New York Times has only printed an obituary for one fictional character – Poirot. What’s the deal with the international devotion to Agatha Christie’s plump, mustachioed little Belgian?
The Essence Of Selfies? Art
“The selfie is a deliberate, aesthetic expression–it’s a self-portrait, which is an artistic genre with an extremely long pedigree. There can be bad self-portraits and good self-portraits, but the self-portrait isn’t bad or good in itself.”
Why The Google Ruling Is Great For Readers
“The book is becoming more like the web, opened up to web-like forms of inquiry, to searching, excerpting and analysis. In the long term, the possibilities for research, learning and discovery are endless.”
James McBride Is Still Shocked That He Won The National Book Award
“‘This is a very good problem to have,’ he said of his sudden fame. ‘I wish my mother were alive to see it.'”
Is Music In Perpetual Decline? That All Depends On Your Recording Technology
“When the cassette tape became increasingly significant in the 70s and 80s, a vinyl album fitted neatly on to one side of a C90. For these reasons alone, the standard running time for an album became roughly 45 minutes.”
Art Makes You Smarter (Especially If You’re A Kid)
“Visiting an art museum exposes students to a diversity of ideas that challenge them with different perspectives on the human condition. “
Going Deep In The World Of The Drug Cartels – And Their Songwriters
“My guys sing to Sinaloa–they’re Chapo people. They have to be very careful. They don’t book shows in other peoples’ territories. When they go on the mic, they say, ‘Hello to Culiacan!’ but they’ll never say hello to Reynosa, because that’s controlled by a different cartel. You have to stay with your team.”
Comics And Graphic Novels: Far From Simple, With Roots In The Ice Age
The theory for comics as an age-old language “builds on a growing acceptance that the brain’s language toolkit is a kind of Swiss army knife for many different kinds of expression, such as music or dance.”