Will Cotton, Elle with Cupcakes, 2014, via. Art Basel is happening.
Recent links of note:
China Will Send Artists to Live and Work in Rural Areas
Jill Steinhauer, Hyperallergic
Disturbing echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Taking a Wrench to Reality
Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books
On Cubism’s truth value: “Pictures want to be bodies, pictures want to be objects, but they aren’t, and they can’t be. The edge where one color meets another can never be the edge where a solid meets space. That is the truth, but is it a truth that painting can point to?”
The Trouble With Goodness
The Future Symphony
Why can’t an orchestra just be an orchestra?
A History of the New York Times Notable Book list
Laura Miller, Salon
The list can shift from hefty histories to chick lit, but it may be that the readers change more than the books.
Please, No Google in the Gallery
M. Anthony Mills, City Journal
Encouraging cell-phone use in museums is a mistake. In other news, both the Met and the Frick just invited me to download their new apps!
From our pages:
The “new” New Brutalism
Michael J. Lewis
Brutalism is back.