Miscellany. 02.18.13.
Room Where Bessie Smith Died, Clarksdale, Mississippi, by Zoe Strauss. From the photographer’s billboard series. See it large. (Courtesy of Zoe Strauss.)
- The L.A. Times has an interesting package of stories that explore the role of violence in various forms of culture — from film, to television, to theater and art. Not histrionic; worth checking out.
- Vanity Fair on the L.A. MOCA mess.
- More on the art and money vortex, this time by Christian Viveros-Fauné.
- In an impassioned piece in the New York Times, Roberta Smith asks that museums stop segregating folk art from academic art. Jerry Saltz concurs. (The NYT’s accompanying slide show makes Smith’s point beautifully.)
- Macho Macho Men: Mira Schor has a good critique of the work of critics Robert Hughes and Hilton Kramer in Artforum.
- Once upon a time there was a wall…
- When L.A. Was Empty: Some great images of vintage SoCal landscapes.
- Hostile to building and experimental architecture: Kriston Capps has a good essay in the City Paper about how direly over-regulated Washington’s Mall is. (Hyperallergic.)
- Rent Richard Neutra’s office.
- America’s venerable literary rags get picked apart on n+1.
- From the Department of Not Very Big Surprises: The research that led to the Comics Code Authority was faked.
- A few long lost files are calling the facts in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood into question.
- The Pentametron: Making poetry out of Twitter.
- A Tumblr for reading nerds.
