“As any digital marketeer with their crosshairs on millennials will tell you, the way we “consume” culture has fragmented. Put in less depressing terms, we have a greater range of representative voices to choose from than in Brett Easton Ellis’s decadent brat-pack days. The aim of publishing now should be to widen that range further.” – The Guardian
Tag: 08.17.19
The Symbiotic Dance Between Jazz And Film
Since the advent of sound, movies treated jazz as a marker of modernity and youth, a soundtrack to a fledgling America further distancing itself from Europe and charting a path through its second century. – Los Angeles Review of Books
Leonard Bernstein’s Long-Lost Late-Life Love Letters
Kunihiko Hashimoto, then a 26-year-old insurance worker, attended a New York Philharmonic concert in Tokyo in 1979, and he went backstage afterward to meet Bernstein, soon to turn 61. They fell in love, and though Lenny was never one for monogamy, letters in Library of Congress archives show that they remained involved for the rest of Bernstein’s life. And the relationship became professional as well as personal. – The Observer (UK)
Ruth McGowan On How To Curate Shows For A Fringe Festival
“How, then, do you avoid the cringingly awful? The shows so bad you feel you’re never going to get those precious moments of your finite life back again? McGowan smiles and looks up – as she does when she’s thinking or, as is most likely in this case, remembering just such a show.” – Irish Times
Dance Podcasts Are Proliferating, And Here Are Dance Magazine’s Top Three
Do you want a serious look at the world of dance; a more lighthearted, behind-the-scenes glance; or some potentially weird but eclectic and innovative podcasts involving hosts and guests? This list tells you which one to download for that commute to the studio (or, er, the office). – Dance Magazine
How Have Our Nudes Changed In The Last 50 Years?
Bodies have changed – we’re bigger, with a lot more markings – and times have changed: It’s actually less legal to be nude on national beaches now than it was during the summer that saw both Woodstock and Altamont, though women can legally go topless now in a lot more states. – The New York Times
If Mega-Dealers Have Eaten The Art World, What’s Next?
How long can this last? “This market brings together two groups who normally don’t socialize: critics and collectors. There are the exotic-seeming rich people, as any reader of Henry James would know well; once at dinner, asking one collector where he lived, I got a listing of his homes: the Park Avenue apartment, the ranch in Ireland, the winter place in Florida, and so on. Art dealers, too, are fascinating because they sell to collectors expensive artifacts that satisfy no immediate need.” – Hyperallergic
Endeavor Content, An ‘Aggressive’ Arm Of William Morris, Owns Parts Of Hit TV Shows, Irking Writers
The company is part of Killing Eve, the movie Book Club, and around 100 other media properties, to date. Their spin: “In a world of media consolidation at an unprecedented scale, the size and scale and reach of media companies today is unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and the idea of ownership and creative freedom is under threat. … So how do we help create an alternative and help create leverage for people?” (The Writers Guild of America isn’t signing onto that, of course.) – Los Angeles Times
The Old Argument Continues: Is ‘Craft’ A Bad Word In The Visual Arts Community?
Magdalene Odundo, a Kenya-born British ceramicist who hand-builds her work, says clay is a natural substance for creating bodies and other shapes. And no, she doesn’t find the word “craft” offensive – but: “Crafting work is a term that means you are making work, you are actually crafting a piece of work. There is nothing wrong in making craft; I actually think it’s a very apt word for making, but it’s not helpful when it classifies certain work as not being of equal status to art.” – The Observer (UK)
Memories From Ystad And Elsewhere
Remembering Bob Wilber, and celebrating Gunhild Carling. – Doug Ramsey