Word: artisticisms
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Visitors to Harvard’s Museum of Natural History looking for dinosaurs this month will come across a surprising new exhibition. In place of the usual bones, the museum is showing photographs of leaves in black and white. The museum is not trying to bombard visitors with the unexpected...
The Internet is not the real world. In a real job, a person does something useful. Giving away pictures of funny-looking cats would not count. In the real world, if someone approached a passerby on the street and offered to trade a red paperclip for his or her house...
But she clearly wanted to write about him. Ceccaldi's book does not focus exclusively on Houellebecq, but her assessment of his personal and artistic flaws are the meat of a work apparently conceived and executed as an act of revenge. In one section, for example, Ceccaldi caps off a...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained...
In 1936, Walter Benjamin wrote that, “[Mankind’s] self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” He was referring to the mass popularity of the Nazi aesthetic. This...