This week, the full story behind the closing of the Marciano Art Foundation, the LA County Museum of Art’s debt issues, colonialism and Parasite, a Hieronymus Bosch parade, and more.
February 22, 2020
Posted inMusic
The Electronic Symphonies of Video Game Scores
I haven’t played the game Death Stranding, but I know one thing: The score, composed by Ludvig Forssell for prepared piano, synthesizer, and found percussion, is beautiful.
Posted inBooks
Eileen Myles Listens for the “Pulse Outside” Their Home
Myles’s poems walk and shift with all their pieces sloshing this way and that, and invite the reader for the ride.
Posted inFilm
A Model Who Shunned Celebrity for Marxism
The Disappearance of My Mother honors the staunch conviction and introversion of Benedetta Barzini, who shunned Warhol celebrity for political solidarity, and in her later years, Spartan solitude.
Posted inArt
Taking Appropriation Too Far
To manipulate the historical record, I would think, is to abandon the search for truth.
Posted inArt
Once More Into the Culture Wars
To assert one’s inner life in a time of reactionary politics is a radical act.
Posted inArt
Shaking Up Op Art
Takuji Hamanaka’s works seem to have been made by a mason who lives in a heightened state of consciousness.