Miscellaneous links
Zadie Smith talks about her new job as a book reviewer for Harper’s and the difference between being being a ‘critic’ and a ‘reviewer.’ (audio)
Ebert’s blog is getting tougher and tougher to read. Seriously. I have to skim at times to keep from getting too deeply mired in thoughts of mortality. I don’t know how many posts with titles like “Goodbye to all that” with pictures of hourglasses I have the strength to read.
Gary Kasparov on Bobby Fischer in NYRB.
T.J. Clark on Gabriel Orozco in LRB.
Al Pacino wouldn’t have been the first actor to come to mind if it had been me casting a movie about Henri Matisse (story here). But who knows? Did you see him in that Kevorkian movie?
A longish New York Times article about all the work it takes to put on a nine minute Marc Jacobs fashion show…
“Those efforts go into producing a spectacle so ephemeral in real time that it is shorter than the average taxi ride. What justifies it all is the same thing that makes fashion so exciting in the first place: a super-concentrated sense of the present. For now, in fashion, there is only now.”
Which reminds me of this New Yorker profile of Jacobs from a few years ago. Interesting and talented guy.
I really like John Yau’s interviews with artists at Brooklyn Rail. I like his focus on painting and the hype-free tone of the discussions. I’ve learned about a lot of artists through him. Here’s an interview with Lois Dodd from the latest issue.
Lois Dodd: Buildings at Rock Garden Inn.
Miscellaneous links
Zadie Smith talks about her new job as a book reviewer for Harper’s and the difference between being being a ‘critic’ and a ‘reviewer.’ (audio)
Ebert’s blog is getting tougher and tougher to read. Seriously. I have to skim at times to keep from getting too deeply mired in thoughts of mortality. I don’t know how many posts with titles like “Goodbye to all that” with pictures of hourglasses I have the strength to read.
Gary Kasparov on Bobby Fischer in NYRB.
T.J. Clark on Gabriel Orozco in LRB.
Al Pacino wouldn’t have been the first actor to come to mind if it had been me casting a movie about Henri Matisse (story here). But who knows? Did you see him in that Kevorkian movie?
A longish New York Times article about all the work it takes to put on a nine minute Marc Jacobs fashion show…
“Those efforts go into producing a spectacle so ephemeral in real time that it is shorter than the average taxi ride. What justifies it all is the same thing that makes fashion so exciting in the first place: a super-concentrated sense of the present. For now, in fashion, there is only now.”
Which reminds me of this New Yorker profile of Jacobs from a few years ago. Interesting and talented guy.
I really like John Yau’s interviews with artists at Brooklyn Rail. I like his focus on painting and the hype-free tone of the discussions. I’ve learned about a lot of artists through him. Here’s an interview with Lois Dodd from the latest issue.
Lois Dodd: Buildings at Rock Garden Inn.
