Tuesday, May 1, 2018

An Ambitious (And Revolutionary) Plan To Reconceive Paris by Artsjournal

The new Guide for Grand Parisians “is a guide to the present and the future,” says Rémi Babinet, the president both of BETC and of the Endowment for Art and Culture of the Grand Paris E…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 05:36PM
Monday, April 23, 2018

The Key To Understanding Complexity? Scale by Artsjournal

"The history of each branch of science can be divided into three phases. The first phase is exploration, to see what nature is doing. The second phase is precise observation and measurement,…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 02:36PM

How The World Turned Off Mid-Century Architecture by Artsjournal

Buildings long deemed passé and unsuccessful can suddenly seem fresh and intriguing to a new generation, just as yesterday’s tacky decorative designs can become tomorrow’s next cool thi…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 12:24PM
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Reigning In The Surveillance Capitalists by Artsjournal

These days, virtually every aspect of day-to-day life is fed into corporate databases and used to predict and influence all kinds of behavior. Surveillance corporations don’t just respond …

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 05:29PM
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Why Hamlet Is Different From The Rest by Artsjournal

It’s a truism that no one accepts anyone else’s reading of Hamlet. And for at least two hundred years, no generation has been comfortable with its predecessor’s take on the play. It�…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 11:31AM
Monday, March 26, 2018

The U.S. Art Establishment Dealt Badly With Post-War German Art, But Some Artists Now Shine by Artsjournal2

Though 21st century art history majors might not realize it, the entire second half of the 20th century was covered by the shadow of WWII. "The war, Nazi crimes, and their legacy inevitably …

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 07:30AM
Thursday, March 15, 2018

People Who Deny The Reality Of Consciousness by Artsjournal

Some people have denied the existence of consciousness: conscious experience, the subjective character of experience, the “what-it-is-like” of experience. Next to this denial—I’ll ca…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 06:01PM
Thursday, March 8, 2018

The End(s) Of Oscar Wilde

John Banville considers the writer's last years - and whether (and in what ways) he willed his own destruction.

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 12:03PM
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

How Did The Centennial Of Mexico's Greatest Writer Pass With No One In The US Noticing?

"Juan Rulfo (1917–1986), rightly revered in Mexico and outside, is regarded as one of the most influential Latin American writers of all time. ... One reason for the surprising neglect of …

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 01:02PM
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Memories of Chekhov by Peter Sekirin | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books by Peter Sekirin

Memories of Chekhov, from which this excerpt is drawn, is the first documentary biography of Anton Chekhov to be based on primary sources: the letters, diaries, essays, and memories of Chekh…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 11:08PM
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Why She Fell by Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books by Daniel Mendelsohn

As it happens, a recent work for the popular theater puts both Spider-Man and Arachne on the same stage. I am referring to Julie Taymor’s ill-fated musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a…

SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 10:19AM