Scott Timberg: “From the very beginning – perhaps since before the birth of Homo sapiens, in fact – we have craved the effects that art and music can have on us. Simultaneously, we have both worshipful and deeply suspicious feelings toward people who make art or who dwell in the realm of the aesthetic.”
Tag: 09.03.15
Israel Recovers Ancient Sarcophagus Hidden By Contractors
“The limestone coffin [is] estimated at 1,800 years old and discovered last week during work on a new neighbourhood in coastal city Ashkelon … The contractors who encountered the find opted to extract it themselves with a tractor, damaging it before hiding it beneath a stack of metal sheets and boards.”
Ancient Native American Rock Art Defaced With Graffiti – By Geology Students
Fortunately (if that’s the word), the taggers included their names and the university they attend. (includes video)
Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong
Richard Brody: “[His] career is marked by a break that occurred between 1975 and 1977, between the films Kings of the Road and The American Friend. … In that shift, Wenders went from being one of the most intrepid and riginal directors of the time to being himself an art-house signifier.”
An Interactive Guide To Ambiguous Grammar (And The St. Louis County Police Department)
Watch how “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” can be gradually converted into the kind of quasi-meaningless statement delivered somewhere or another every day by ass-covering bureaucrats and spokespeople.
China’s Economy Is Crashing. What Might Save It? The Arts?
With some saying the era of “Cheap China” and “Dirty Manufacturing” is over, the central government is focusing on expanding creative culture, adding 4,000 museums, galleries and art centers in the past five years and creating multi-million-dollar tech incubators and “creative clusters.” The government is funding book fairs, film festivals and promotes artistic works by writers and artists of whom it approves.
Twyla Tharp Hits The Road With A New Set Of Dancers (With A Commitment)
“Obviously,” she said, “the dancers are at the heart of the whole matter.” But she also knows that they’re only human — and that 10 weeks on the road has its risks. “Every single one of these people has taken a pledge on a stack of Bibles: I am not going down, I am not going down, I will not go down,” Ms. Tharp said.
Miami’s Perez Museum Chooses A New Director
“Franklin Sirmans has been at LACMA for five years; before that, he was curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection in Houston and curatorial advisor at the contemporary arts institution MoMA PS1. He was also a lecturer at Princeton University and Maryland Institute College of Art and was U.S. editor of the magazine Flash Art and editor-in-chief of ArtAsiaPacific, an English language magazine.”
Why Google’s New Logo Says All The Wrong Things (Typographically Speaking)
“Google took something we trusted and filed off its dignity. Now, in its place, we have an insipid “G,” an owl-eyed “oo,” a schoolroom “g,” a ho-hum “l,” and a demented, showboating “e.” I don’t want to think about that “e” ever again. But what choice do I have? Google—beneficent overlord, Big Brother, whatever you want to call it—is at the center of our lives. Now it has symbolically diluted our trust, which it originally had for all the right reasons.”
La La La Human Dance Steps Shuts Down
“The last tour was a difficult one financially. Though the debt was reduced substantially due to the generosity of many of our creditors, the cuts that followed and the decision not to guarantee more than the current year of subsidy has made it impossible to continue.”