THE ARTS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

The Guardian in London has launched a week of arts coverage by guest editors, and it’s
not to be missed. On Monday the < FONT color=#003399>Franz Ferdinand issue had “a different
take” on tabloid newspapers’ topless pictures (an article < FONT color=#003399>about censorship by the
photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who shot this bottomless image); a tale of < FONT color=#003399>music lessons (have they improved?);
questions about (mostly British) < FONT color=#003399>rock’n’roll mythology (is it at an end?), the
merits of < FONT color=#003399>two aesthetics (minimalist or maximalist?), the
< FONT color=#003399>stairway to hell (why so many musicians
self-destruct) and — how could it not? — a < FONT color=#003399>debate on blogging (have Weblogs
revolutionized the media?). Tuesday’s < FONT color=#003399>Sam Taylor-Wood issue led with < FONT color=#003399>fashion (“Meeting the Queen was like falling
in love”), and today’s < FONT color=#003399>Max Stafford-Clark issue, so far the most
parochial, asks whether Britain has < FONT color=#003399>culture beyond its main artistic centers.

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