RIP: Christopher Plummer Dead at 91
The Dramatic Importance Of Club Dance To City Life
That’s merely one thing that’s missing right now, of course, but it is missing, and Dublin isn’t going to let people forget the joys of moving their bodies alongside so many others at dance clubs. “Who’s in charge of making sure we have the facilities to be a city? Who’s in charge of making sure there’s somewhere for us to dance?” – Irish Times
She's gonna stress, so far away from her father's daughter
She just wants a life for her baby
All on her own, no one will come
She's got to save him (daily struggle)
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you (stay up there, stay up there)
She tells him "your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life (straight)
You're gonna grow and have a good life
I'm gonna do what I've got to do" (stay up there, stay up there)
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry
Somebody's got you
Rockabye baby, rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry
Rockabye, no (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (oh)
Rockabye, yeah, yeah (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye)
Rockabye - Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie (Lyrics)
Hey, Let’s Watch Jacques Pépin Fry Eggs
The Playwright We Need To Snap Us Out Of The Past Four Years Is Brecht
“Telling a lie over and over can make it seem true. It can also remove agency from the viewer, ceding the individual’s judgement over to the expectations of the story being told. Brecht refused to let his audience lose themselves in the funhouse mirror of such representations. ‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it,’ he wrote.” – Zócalo Public Square
How Social Media Has Rewired Our Cultural/Political Discourse
This expanding cornucopia of tech and entertainment has served as a compensatory narrative of progress and advancement for an empire in decline. The future seems more and more constrained, materially, but, on the flip side, you are freer and freer to build your own virtual worlds and get lost in them. – Artnet
What Happens To Whistleblowers Who Outed Their Arts Organizations?
After the open letters are published, the articles are out, and the declarations are made on social media, what happens to the people behind them? Artnet News spoke with a number of whistleblowers to find out what followed their news-making efforts and the emotional costs of going public. – Artnet
What Happens To Whistleblowers Who Outed Their Arts Organizations?
After the open letters are published, the articles are out, and the declarations are made on social media, what happens to the people behind them? Artnet News spoke with a number of whistleblowers to find out what followed their news-making efforts and the emotional costs of going public. – Artnet
New Access: Super High Resolution Images Of Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Drawings
The V&A partnered with the Factum Foundation to create the high-resolution color, infrared and 3-D scans in 2019. And last year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the museum refurbished the cartoons’ gallery, known as the Raphael Court, by repainting the walls, replacing light fixtures and taking other steps to make the cartoons “more visible and legible to in-person visitors.” – Smithsonian
TIL that C-3PO had a mismatched silver leg throughout the entire original Star Wars trilogy.
"David Chang's new memoir grapples with the white-hot fury that defined most of his career. But as an employee on the receiving end of that rage, the book fails to account for trauma he caused me."
On the challenges of navigating the pandemic while single. "One day I realized it had been three months since I had touched a human being."
"The pandemic has evaporated entire categories of friendship, and by doing so, depleted the joys that make up a human life – and buoy human health."
Last week I watched the 2019 documentary The Booksellers, an elegiac look at antiquarian and rare book dealers focused largely on New York City. In the 1950s, we’re told, New York was home to 360 bookstores. I was surprised to learn that 79 remain in business. I grew up in Cleveland, where all the bookstores I patronized as a kid, some founded before the Great Depression, are long gone. Inevitably, The Booksellers is a wistful look at a depleted world.
Several of the dealers interviewed for the film cite A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) Rosenbach (1876–1952), the Philadelphia-born dealer who bought and sold eight Gutenberg Bibles and more than thirty First Folios. Among his other purchases were the manuscripts of Ulysses and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I was interested enough to borrow Edwin Wolf II’s Rosenbach: A Biography (1960) from the library. Wolf, who worked for Rosenbach from 1930 to 1952, is a middling, indiscriminate writer who lards his narrative with gratuitous detail, leaving the reader with much to skim.
Wolf tells us Rosenbach never raised the pay of his employees. His older brother, Philip, once gave an employee a $1,000 bonus. Abraham deducted the sum from the employee’s year-end settlement. The episode is described on Page 230. In the margin beside the paragraph, written in pencil, is the only annotation I find in the entire book: “typical cheap Jew bastards!”
It reminds me of an incident described by Terry Southern in "Twirling at Ole Miss," his account of a visit to the University of Mississippi first published in Esquire in 1963 and later collected in Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967). Southern’s timing was superb. It was the summer of 1962. William Faulkner had recently died and James Meredith was about to enroll as the first black student at the university. Southern enters its library and describes what he found:
“After looking around for a bit, I carefully opened a mint first-edition copy of Light in August, and found ‘nigger-lover’ scrawled across the title page.”
A Close Run Thing, by David Treweek
A Close Run Thing is the story of Peter Cavanagh, an antique dealer whose business is in trouble during The Recession We Had to Have. He’s a small-time ‘man on the make’ not just in business but also with women. When well-heeled ladies come into his shop to buy something, he isn’t always, a-hem, thinking about the sale
