One afternoon in 1943, Brassai spent an afternoon with Picasso in his house. Picasso on signing his work, on keeping tidy, on people taking his things. – University of Chicago Press
Tag: 12.99
SELF PROGRAMMING
Are the days of the music album numbered? New digital technology allows consumers to build their own song order. But there are still some bumps along the way. – The Atlantic
BETWEEN JUDGMENT AND BEAUTY
Trying to come to terms with questions of aesthetic judgment. “The trouble is that it has proved impossible to establish the principles that govern the production of aesthetic pleasure.” Threepenny Review
VIRTUAL DRAIN
Young architects are leaving the built real world to join the cyber landscape. “The demand for architects can only grow as the graphical sense of place explored by computer games is used to organize information on CD-ROMs and Internet sites.” Architecture Magazine
YOUR AD HERE
“With rare exceptions – prisons, churches, Bilbao – buildings no longer say very much to most people.” But advertising – billboards, signs – advertising grabs the imagination. “One could cast this as a battle for citizens’ hearts and minds, but for a long time now bright lights have been winning all hearts, hands down.” Architecture Magazine
TROPHY TOWERS
Manhattan’s vintage sky scrapers are changing hands for record prices. Developers who a decade ago dismissed the landmark towers as money-losers, now covet them as status symbols. And, they’re investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade neglected buildings. Architecture Magazine
WHERE’S THE LITERATURE IN LITERARY STUDIES?
Even the current economic boom can’t accommodate the best of our new humanities Ph.Ds. “Some assume that we humanists have a clear sense of what the humanities do and what makes them valuable – that we simply need to convince those crass others, whether within the university or outside its walls, that they really need us. But that assumption is untrue. No one’s even angry with us now, just bored.” – Boston Review