JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER, PARADISE LANDSCAPE WITH THE ANIMALS ENTERING NOAH’S ARK, 1596
Recent links of note:
Priced Out of Contemporary Art? Try Old Masters
James Tarmy, Bloomberg Business
Valuation is deceptive.
Fate and the Individual in European Literature: A Syllabus
h/t Alan Jacobs, More than 95 Theses
W. H. Auden taught at the University of Michigan during the 1941-42 academic year, and his class syllabus called for over 6,000 pages of reading. Good reading.
Can Art Still Shock?
Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian
Maybe we’ve been jaded since 1865.
A Note To My Readers
Andrew Sullivan, The Dish
The former New Republic editor is quitting the blog scene.
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
In case you missed it (or found it possible to avoid): “Today’s political correctness flourishes most consequentially on social media, where it enjoys a frisson of cool and vast new cultural reach. And since social media is also now the milieu that hosts most political debate, the new p.c. has attained an influence over mainstream journalism and commentary beyond that of the old.”
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Mark Strand, 1934-2014
David Yessi
Remembering the poet, artist, and critic.