[contextly_auto_sidebar id="5PEO4QFSNmxgzHgSPv9UaaL0AEAfjMDQ"] SOME of America's smartest publications -- the ones that often offered robust and serious jazz coverage in decades past -- have recently been running articles (satiric, critical or otherwise) dissing one of my favorite art forms. New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Review of Books... What's behind it? Music historian and CultureCrash … [Read more...]
The Big Lie of Jeff Koons
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="vgKZ6xRHRblYrS2DIdm6RSmRakPmvRv4"] IS it possible that the most characteristic artist of our time could also be almost entirely full of b.s.? From what I can tell, that's exactly what we've got. Over the last week or so I've been underlining lines from Jed Perl's New York Review of Books piece on the art world's Gilded boy, thinking and talking about Perl's argument, … [Read more...]