“Even in its spoken form, English is weird. It’s weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet. Our language feels ‘normal’ only until you get a sense of what normal really is.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Guy Who Ran McSweeney’s Wants To Re-Teach Us How To Read, Using An App
“This might all sound very precious, or very insufferable. But Horowitz is used to people feeling that way: It’s the same sort of criticism that’s long been levied at McSweeney’s, the indie publishing organization that Horowitz ran for the better part of a decade. The cabins expand upon the aggressively twee style that made McSweeney’s publications into bookshelf fixtures in Brooklyn studios and dorm rooms across the land, but the work Horowitz does in those cabins is anything but stale.”
Betye Saar’s Work Couldn’t Be More Relevant, So Where Are The Shows?
“‘I guess it’s always a problem to get recognized in your hometown,’ she reflects. ‘But they can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks,’ she adds with a laugh. ‘Then they will pay for their hesitation.'”
Can Architecture Help Heal The Rift Between Police And African American Communities?
“The police station Gang envisions would be more like a town center than a fortress. A gym, open to the public as well as the police, would rise across the street. Cops, teachers and firefighters would live in nearby housing. Some of the parking lots around the station would be transformed into parks. The idea is to have police rub shoulders with residents, building bonds of trust.”
How The Artistic Director Of The Toronto International Film Festival Moved Toward Art
“The art world at that time, for better or worse, was full of these people who had these long treatises on their work. I think the art world has changed a little bit since then – there’s been a return to more direct practice and less thinking through the art before you make the art. But when I was coming up, it was all about the ideas, and the ideas I was familiar with were from literature and film.”
Meet The Artist Who Created The ‘Peace For Paris’ Symbol (No, It Wasn’t Banksy)
“How much time transpired between when you heard about the attacks and when you set about creating the image?
“A minute, maybe. It was done on my lap, on a very loose sketchbook, with a brush and ink.”
Stand Aside, ‘Jane Eyre’ – New, Unpublished Charlotte Brontë Works Discovered
“Both the poem and the prose piece deal with characters from Angria, a fictional kingdom that Charlotte created with her brother Branwell, and wrote about in several stories, some of which were originally scrawled in small handmade books.”
Without Shakespeare, Who Would Know The Battle Of Agincourt?
But Shakespeare isn’t responsible for confusion around the meaning of the battle: “Henry V, ‘a master of propaganda,’ controlled the message; victory at Agincourt validated Henry’s divine authority. From there, over 600 years, uncertainties have been compounded.”
What’s Under Malevich’s Black Square?
Examinations with a microscope reveal a racist joke.
Twyla Tharp, Vampire
“Yes, I’m Dracula, they’re the soil and the dance is the coffin. … In a way it’s not a bad analogy because what I do is, you know — can I dance? Sort of. Am I in condition to do much of anything right now? Absolutely not. I don’t obviously have the instrument now to evolve really demanding physical movement. For that I need — hello — younger bodies.”