Friday, April 28, 2006
Books (Comics): Phantomville
A new graphic novel publisher in India (read about them in Time Out Mumbai): Phantomville
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Books / Art: Michiko Kakutani & criticism
A good line from a Slate article about NY Times book critic Michiko Kakutani. Good words to remember for the art reviews I write.
As a student at Oxford, the future drama critic Kenneth Tynan got back a paper with this comment: "Keep a strict eye on eulogistic & dyslogistic adjectives—They shd diagnose (not merely blame) & distinguish (not merely praise.)"
As a student at Oxford, the future drama critic Kenneth Tynan got back a paper with this comment: "Keep a strict eye on eulogistic & dyslogistic adjectives—They shd diagnose (not merely blame) & distinguish (not merely praise.)"
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Music: New CD - Built To Spill & The Knife
Built To Spill - You in Reverse: A bit more sprawling and less polished than their last one. Always enjoy Doug Martsch's distinctive vocals and crunchy lead guitar.
The Knife - Silent Shout: The yummiest sounding synths. The album peters off towards the end though.
The Knife - Silent Shout: The yummiest sounding synths. The album peters off towards the end though.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Art: Bonnard by Kimmelman
A good article from last week's NY Times by my favorite art critic Michael Kimmelman: Pierre Bonnard Retrospective at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris.
An excerpt that comments on the current state of art:
"...Bonnard could not have known that young artists in the year 2006 would operate in a commonplace world of budget air travel, proliferating art fairs and museums for contemporary art, where peripatetic pilgrims encounter endless objects once and mostly never again. This, the artist and writer Art Spiegelman pointed out to me recently, may be the biggest change in art during the last half-century or so: that more and more artists make works they never expect will be lived with, looked at day in, day out by the same person; that much art is made for fairs or museums, designed to grab a distracted passerby's attention without needing to be experienced twice. Culture slides into the realm of entertainment.
It is no wonder, then, as Bonnard could say even about his own day, that "few people know how to see, to see well, to see fully." In our visual age, amid a glut of freshly minted, clueless collectors, it's truer now.
But fortunately, Bonnard's work is still around to show us a different truth."
An excerpt that comments on the current state of art:
"...Bonnard could not have known that young artists in the year 2006 would operate in a commonplace world of budget air travel, proliferating art fairs and museums for contemporary art, where peripatetic pilgrims encounter endless objects once and mostly never again. This, the artist and writer Art Spiegelman pointed out to me recently, may be the biggest change in art during the last half-century or so: that more and more artists make works they never expect will be lived with, looked at day in, day out by the same person; that much art is made for fairs or museums, designed to grab a distracted passerby's attention without needing to be experienced twice. Culture slides into the realm of entertainment.
It is no wonder, then, as Bonnard could say even about his own day, that "few people know how to see, to see well, to see fully." In our visual age, amid a glut of freshly minted, clueless collectors, it's truer now.
But fortunately, Bonnard's work is still around to show us a different truth."
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Quote: Piety vs. Goodness
Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.
-Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
-Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
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