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‘Absolutely hideous’: new London sculpture of Oscar Wilde condemned by his grandson
Gloomy segmented head of famed playwright fails to convey his wit and brilliance, says Merlin HollandA huge sculpture of Oscar Wilde’s head lying on its side, his face sliced into segments, has been condemned as “absolutely hideous” by the playwright’s grandson.Merlin Holland, an expert on Wilde’s life and works, has criticised a 2ft-high black bronze sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi that is to be unveiled in a public garden in Chelsea, south-west London, near -
Silk Roads review – mesmerising show turns world history upside down
British Museum, London
Following China’s epic ancient trade routes through fabulous oases, desert palaces and burial mounds will radically change the way you feel about bordersNot many exhibitions turn the history of the world upside down. The British Museum’s mesmerising Silk Roads does, by showing how Asia, Europe and north Africa shared their cultures more than a millennium ago. Far from developing in isolation, let alone in a “clash of civilisations”, east and west we -
Nigel Farage is a dreamer, just like David Steel | Brief letters
Preparing for government | Graham Rawle’s best work | Margaret Thatcher | The price of scans | Optical allusionsNigel Farage suggesting he can win the next general election (Report, 20 September) puts me in mind of David Steel’s direction to delegates at the Liberal assembly in 1981 to “Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government”. Here’s hoping that Farage’s prediction is equally accurate.
Cherry Weston
Wolverhampton• My favourite among Gra -
Extreme Candor: Pittsburgh Arts Council Admits Big Failures
via wesa.fmThe Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s new strategic plan seems like an exception. With a candor that verges on the self-excoriating, the group’s report announcing the five-year plan itemizes its past errors and seeks to chart a new course in how it serves the local arts community. – WESA -
More Than 10,000 Books Were Banned In The US Last Year
via theguardian.comThe survey from PEN America suggested that bans of books nearly tripled nationwide, from 3,362 the previous year. – The Guardian -
Lawyers Battle Over The Boundaries Of Copyright Law For AI
A DC Circuit panel struggled with both the idea of granting copyright protection for AI-produced works and a computer scientist’s framing of his case to do so during oral argument Thursday. – Bloomberg -
How Publishers Weaponized Copyright Against Libraries
via jacobin.comIt’s no surprise that the courts have sided with the publishers. For decades, copyright law has increasingly served the interests of large companies, narrowing the scope of use for individuals while extending rights-protection terms for owners. In today’s world, “intellectual property” takes precedence over access to content. – Jacobin -
The Art of Dining: exploring the history of food in Islamic culture
A new exhibition reveals the traditions that have come to define food in the Islamic world and the artistry involvedThe second-largest religion by population after Christianity, Islam covers a vast geographic area, ranging from Spain to north Africa and the Middle East, through central and south-east Asia, Indonesia and beyond. The various culinary traditions that exist in this broad geography are equally sizeable, making for a truly bounteous range of food – as well as accompanying servin -
Of The Big Fall Books, Which Should You Read?
via lithub.comFace it, we only have so much time in our lives. The LitHub flow chart is here for you. – LitHub -
Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When: a ravishing, immersive work that approaches the sublime
In an audiovisual takeover of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank, the underground space has met its match – an ecstatic ritual to meet our apocalyptic timesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWarrane/Sydney was experiencing a perfect day in the Domain parklands, all warm sun on cool grass lawns and fig trees. In two days it would be the spring equinox, the tipping point from shorter winter to longer summer days.But below, in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ subterranean Ta -
One Artist Is Helping Refugees Tell Their Stories – With SIM Cards
via fastcompany.comOr rather, with glass plates shaped like SIM cards, so important to most refugees’ stories. “This collection has become a rich archive of migration stories curated entirely by the people they represent.” – Fast Company -
The Huntington Botanical Gardens Has A Plant Theft Issue
via laist.comBut it’s not just the Huntington. “There’s a global network where succulents, cacti, orchids, cycads, magnolias and other plants are trafficked on the black market.” – LAist -
Genre, Improvisation, And Romantic Comedies
via nytimes.comNatasha Rothwell in conversation with Samara Joy: “Improv saved my life. You have to trust your instincts; you have to abandon the need for perfection. Maybe that’s why I love jazz so much.” – The New York Times -
Oscar Wilde’s Grandson Excoriates A New London Sculpture Of The Playwright’s Head
via theguardian.com“A huge sculpture of Oscar Wilde’s head lying on its side, his face sliced into segments, has been condemned as ‘absolutely hideous’ by the playwright’s grandson.” – The Observer (UK) -
Show shines light on overlooked artist who made UK’s first Holocaust memorial
Work of German-Jewish sculptor Fred Kormis, who fled Nazis in 1930s, is subject of exhibition in LondonThe work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UK’s first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition that shines light on the unreported aspects of his life.Fred Kormis, who fled Germany in the 1930s and later became a British citizen, was described by the Wiener Holocaust Library in London as a forgotten émigré artist who pla -
The Arts Collective Building Community In Rural Minnesota
via mprnews.org“We like the feeling of the collective and not pushing one person as a front for something. … So, we’re really working together with our skillset because we believe in music, we believe in art, we believe in community, and so that’s what’s being put forward here.” – MPR -
How Design Transformed Dundee
via theguardian.com“This year’s festival will mark 10 years since Unesco designated Dundee a design city, alongside Berlin, Montreal, Istanbul and others. The accolade is given to cities which have an established design industry and opportunities for designers, among other criteria.” – The Observer (UK) -
The French Neoclassical Painter Nearly Lost To History
Guillaume Lethière “was one of the most prominent and influential figures in French painting during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, captivating international audiences with his technical precision, arresting portraiture, and grand-scale history paintings.” – Hyperallergic -
A Love Letter To The Chicago Manual Of Style
via lithub.comTo some, the book “isn’t merely a guide; it’s a testament to the art of textual precision. Its presence on the desk of the devoted writer is not a matter of mere chance but a reflection of its embodiment of principles that make it indispensable.” – LitHub -
The Micro-Galleries Of Long Beach
via latimes.com“An archipelago of 10 micro-galleries stretches around neighborhoods in Long Beach as well as in San Pedro and Lomita. Two more, also in Long Beach, are set to be built in the coming weeks.” – Los Angeles Times -
AI Memed A Dead Dad, But Whom Does The Daughter Sue?
via slate.com“I’m guessing an image generator scraped a photo of my dad from somewhere online (maybe the wedding pictures I posted in 2007?) and then didn’t jumble it up enough to make it into someone new. Instead, it issued forth an eerie facsimile.” – Slate -
On the display of shocking art: get a room
via artsjournal.comThe Guardian reports that a gallery in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye was investigated (though not prosecuted) by police after complaints of a painting placed in the gallery’s front window. At artsjournal.com, where I first found this story, the very knowing headline is “Some Welsh folks called the police on a gallery’s front window”, and so we know where this is all going: rural rubes can’t handle art.With its literary festival and numerous book -
On Leonard Cohen’s 90th Birthday, One Of His Most Important Collaborators Pays Tribute
via variety.com“There could be no sweeter-sounding bird on the wire that leads back to Cohen’s 50-year legacy in music than [Perla] Batalla, who along with Julie Christensen formed the duo that accompanied Cohen during his incredibly fruitful ‘I’m Your Man’ and ‘The Future’ period.” – Variety -
Why Cai Guo-Quiang Has Decided To Use AI
via theguardian.com“’It’s similar to why I use gunpowder,’ Cai told me. ‘Because using gunpowder, there’s always surprise and unexpectedness. You want to control it, but then it’s always uncontrollable. It’s just like AI.’” (Of course, this is the display that injured spectators and worried USC students.) – The Guardian (UK) -
For The Children Of Architects, Filmmaking Can Be Therapy
via nytimes.com“The particular qualities of architecture as a creative pursuit (as opposed to, say, novel-writing) lend themselves to the screen, big or small. This can be as true in psychological terms as visual ones.” – The New York Times -
What Happened To Tupperware Can Remind Arts Organizations To Stay Nimble
via theatlantic.comBeing first – and transforming everything – is great. But it’s just not enough. – The Atlantic -
The Impressionists Weren’t Sweet And Pretty – They Were Radical
via msn.com“These painters buttressed one another during the lean months, the haves tending to the have-nots, united in their distaste for the Salon’s stale, imperious criteria.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN) -
‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art
She pours or even tosses paint on to a canvas – to see where it takes her. The results range from myths to massacres, bound heads to Satan. In a rare interview, the great artist reveals what drives her‘To paint is an apology for painting,” writes Marlene Dumas, in the introductory essay to her new show Mourning Marsyas. Discuss, I want to insist, as if her comment were an exam question. But before we can make any headway, she’s leading me from painting to painting, around -
Can AI Come Up With More Creative Ideas Than Researchers?
via nature.comThere are burgeoning efforts to explore how LLMs can be used to automate research tasks, including writing papers, generating code and searching literature. But it’s been difficult to assess whether these AI tools can generate fresh research angles at a level similar to that of humans. – Nature -
Today’s Weekend AJ Highlights
via artsjournal.comGood morning. How can you believe anything anymore? AI has taken away the “proof” of a video. And seeing (or hearing) is definitely not believing anymore. Sociologists call it “deep doubt,” and being unable to truly believe in anything is destabilizing, not just personally, but for the wider culture. Ars Technica’s Benj Edwards explores the phenomenon. Meanwhile, here are the rest of today’s highlights:China’s Art Censorship Targets Contemporary Artists
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