Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
I’m in The Wall Street Journal today with a piece about…well, you’ve kind of got to read it:
As of yesterday, “Atelier de Cannes,” a 1958 crayon drawing by Pablo Picasso, was still on sale at www.costco.com. Price: $129,999.99. You’ll find it listed under “Gadgets, Gifts & Art,” along with art prints by the likes of Chagall, Dufy, Mir
I’m in The Wall Street Journal today with a piece about…well, you’ve kind of got to read it:
As of yesterday, “Atelier de Cannes,” a 1958 crayon drawing by Pablo Picasso, was still on sale at www.costco.com. Price: $129,999.99. You’ll find it listed under “Gadgets, Gifts & Art,” along with art prints by the likes of Chagall, Dufy, Mir
Here’s the raw list of sacred cattle proffered by our readers, presented in clever subdivisions. Starting tomorrow I’ll share some of the actual reviews, which were delightfully bitter and bilious. Ebert who?
THE EVER POPULAR
CAPITAL-S SACRED
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Rear Window
Nashville
I RESPECTFULLY PROTEST!
Rushmore
Barcelona
Last Picture Show
Goodfellas
I HEARTILY CONCUR
A FEW PAIRINGS
Schindler’s List and Life Is Beautiful
Fahrenheit 9/11 and Passion of the Christ
2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
THE CRUISE FACTOR
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
Collateral
WHO EXACTLY IS GENUFLECTING?
Cheaper by the Dozen
Independence Day
Cabin Boy
Troy
…AND THE REST
Ordinary People, Primary Colors, The Vanishing, The English Patient, The Crying Game, Talented Mr. Ripley, Million Dollar Baby, A Letter to Three Wives, Reds, Short Cuts,
Forrest Gump, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happy Endings, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Goodbye Girl, Talk to Her, State and Main, Andrei Rublev, Gandhi, Z, Dersu Uzala, October,
Mississippi Burning, Dead Man, Everything Quentin Tarantino Has Ever Done, A Clockwork Orange, The Piano, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Here’s the raw list of sacred cattle proffered by our readers, presented in clever subdivisions. Starting tomorrow I’ll share some of the actual reviews, which were delightfully bitter and bilious. Ebert who?
THE EVER POPULAR
CAPITAL-S SACRED
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Rear Window
Nashville
I RESPECTFULLY PROTEST!
Rushmore
Barcelona
Last Picture Show
Goodfellas
I HEARTILY CONCUR
A FEW PAIRINGS
Schindler’s List and Life Is Beautiful
Fahrenheit 9/11 and Passion of the Christ
2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
THE CRUISE FACTOR
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
Collateral
WHO EXACTLY IS GENUFLECTING?
Cheaper by the Dozen
Independence Day
Cabin Boy
Troy
…AND THE REST
Ordinary People, Primary Colors, The Vanishing, The English Patient, The Crying Game, Talented Mr. Ripley, Million Dollar Baby, A Letter to Three Wives, Reds, Short Cuts,
Forrest Gump, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happy Endings, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Goodbye Girl, Talk to Her, State and Main, Andrei Rublev, Gandhi, Z, Dersu Uzala, October,
Mississippi Burning, Dead Man, Everything Quentin Tarantino Has Ever Done, A Clockwork Orange, The Piano, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Don’t think I’m not still sick! I’m mostly better, but not entirely. I had to cover the Fringe Festival last night, and my Wall Street Journal drama column is due this morning. So in lieu of original content, I offer you this snapshot of my recent reading:
– Robert Birnbaum interviews Camille Paglia:
CP: I’m on a crusade–it’s to say to the poets and the artists, “Stop talking to each other. Stop talking to coteries. I despise coteries in any form. You are speaking to a coterie, OK. Stop the snide references to the rest of the world who didn’t vote with you in the last election.” This is big. Because we have all separated again. After 9/11, everyone was united. We are separated again thanks to what has happened in politics. People in the art world are full of [a] sanctimonious sense of superiority to most of America. But they must address America, learn to address America. Yes, have your friends, have the people who support what you are doing in the art world, but you have to recover a sense of the general audience and the same thing I am saying to the far right, get over the sneering at art, the stereotyping–
RB: They started it.
CP: Wait a minute. The far right wouldn’t have any opinions about art if it weren’t for those big incidents in the late ’80s to the ’90s when some stupid work was committing sacrilege.
RB: You’re referring to Andr
Don’t think I’m not still sick! I’m mostly better, but not entirely. I had to cover the Fringe Festival last night, and my Wall Street Journal drama column is due this morning. So in lieu of original content, I offer you this snapshot of my recent reading:
– Robert Birnbaum interviews Camille Paglia:
CP: I’m on a crusade–it’s to say to the poets and the artists, “Stop talking to each other. Stop talking to coteries. I despise coteries in any form. You are speaking to a coterie, OK. Stop the snide references to the rest of the world who didn’t vote with you in the last election.” This is big. Because we have all separated again. After 9/11, everyone was united. We are separated again thanks to what has happened in politics. People in the art world are full of [a] sanctimonious sense of superiority to most of America. But they must address America, learn to address America. Yes, have your friends, have the people who support what you are doing in the art world, but you have to recover a sense of the general audience and the same thing I am saying to the far right, get over the sneering at art, the stereotyping–
RB: They started it.
CP: Wait a minute. The far right wouldn’t have any opinions about art if it weren’t for those big incidents in the late ’80s to the ’90s when some stupid work was committing sacrilege.
RB: You’re referring to Andr
– Amount Scott Bradley was paid in 1954 to compose the musical score to a Tom and Jerry cartoon for MGM: $1,000
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $6,904.77
(Source: Daniel Goldmark, Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon)
– Amount Scott Bradley was paid in 1954 to compose the musical score to a Tom and Jerry cartoon for MGM: $1,000
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $6,904.77
(Source: Daniel Goldmark, Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon)
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