L0m3z, What is the Longhouse? “The most important feature of the Longhouse, and why it makes such a resonant (and controversial) symbol of our current circumstances, is the ubiquitous rule of the Den Mother.”
Titus Techera, Seeking Excellence in the Age of Mediocrity. “It means making or protecting beautiful things. It means the experience of the rough, the uncertain, the matter that resists will — the strength that will endure after we’re dead.”
Justin Murphy, Ezra Pound and the Aristocratic Spirit. “Pound’s mistake was that he begins to let bitterness into his heart. ‘I’m so damn natural and trusting and innocent,’ he writes, ‘that I create scandal about my ways continually.’ Universities exist to ‘perpetuate routine and stupidity.’ This is, of course, self-aggrandizing nonsense.”
, Bring on the Counterrevolution. “Today’s counterrevolution is not one of class against class but takes place along a new axis between the citizen and an ideologically driven state. Its ultimate ambition is not to replace the new ‘universal class’—the heirs of the 1960s cultural revolution, who have worked to professionalize it and install it in elite institutions—or to capture the bureaucratic apparatus that the universal class currently controls; instead, it seeks to restore the nation’s founding principle of citizen rule over the state.”Nicola Davis, Adults’ penchant for Van Gogh mirrored in babies, study finds. “The team say their findings suggest certain biases in what we chose to look at are already present in infancy and carry over into adulthood, although life experiences also have an impact on which paintings we end up preferring when we get older.”2
James Kirchick, Pinkwashing the Thought Police. “Freedom of speech was the most important tool of the gay movement, but it’s proving to be a highly problematic obstacle for the queer one.”3
Jenin Younes, Partners in Crime. “‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,’ Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers, famously wrote. The first president of the United States, George Washington, once said, ‘If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.’”
Anytype is an encrypted, peer-to-peer, mutli-function productivity suite.
R.I.P. Brice Marden. “‘He was lucky to live a long life doing what he loved,’ [his daughter] wrote, noting that he had continued painting up until Saturday.”
Coming soon: “Ellen Siebers: dream song,” August 26 – October 7, at parrasch heijnen.
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During the week of September 11 we will begin an Asynchronous Studio Book Club reading of Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman by Michael Schreyach. Obtain your copy soon.
Preorders are available for Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art by Walter Darby Bannard. More information is available at the site for the book.
Beaman recently wrote another worthy post, By the Nose, in which he contemplates the recent popularity of the nose ring and the betrayal of the punk ethos.
“Bias” seems like a strange thing to call something innate, but the study, interestingly, indicates a biological basis for taste.
Also recently by Kirchick, Censorship Is Not a Jewish Value.
Thank you! Also of interest:
https://unherd.com/2023/08/artists-have-forgotten-how-to-draw/