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The intimate Michelangeloby James HankinsThe New CritgerionDecember, 2017 Fame often does an artist little good. Quite apart from the moral temptations, there is the danger of sticking with what works, closing oneself off to new ideas, refusing new challenges, becoming a brand. In Michelangelo’s case, fame’s ill effects, limited in his lifetime, in the long run turned disa..

Michelangelo’s Majestic Humanity The Met’s new exhibition presents Michelangelo not as a demigod, but as a student, a thinker, a teacher, and a friend. Thomas Micchelli Hyperalleregic, November 11, 2017 Michelangelo Buonarroti, “Cartoon with a Group of Soldiers for the Crucifixion of Saint Peter” (1542–46), black chalk and charcoal, 8 feet, 7 9/16 inches × 61 7/..

Woman looking through a hole in the Berlin Wall after the opening of the border on November 09, 1989, in Berlin. (©Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images) Postmodernism is dead. What comes next? 0 --> 0"> ALISON GIBBONSTLS. June 12, 2017 0 --> -1 --> From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda ..

藤原帰一の映画愛 密偵　日本の植民地支配に協力した悲しみ、怒り 每日新聞, 2017年11月12日 04時02分(最終更新 11月12日 04時02分) 　韓国を考えるときに避けることのできない問題が植民地支配の歴史です。１９１０年に大韓帝国が日本に併合されてから、日本が..

The art of the diary People have kept diaries for centuries – and now they’re being reinvented for the era of social media. What purpose do they serve? – By Caroline Crampton – New Humanist, Monday, 23rd October 2017 This article is a preview from the Autumn 2017 edition of New Humanist. On 28 February 1972 at 5.50am, Frank Aycliffe recorded an important dec..

Why Beauty Is Not UniversalPosted By Anthony Brandt & David Eagleman Nautilus on Nov 10, 2017 We’re all human—so despite the vagaries of cultural context, might there exist a universal beauty that overrides the where and when? Might there be unchanging features of human nature that condition our creative choices, a timeless melody that guides the improvisations of the e..

From the Archive of Willa Kim Nicole Rudick Paris Review, Issue 204, Spring 2013 A drawing of Willa Kim from Tom Keogh's sketchbook. A native of Los Angeles, Willa Kim made her first trip to Europe in 1952, at the age of thirty-five. She traveled with a friend, the painter Margaret Stark. Paris was their first destination. “All the artists we admired were in Paris,” she rec..

Music is not for ears We never just hear music. Our experience of it is saturated in cultural expectations, personal memory and the need to move Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis Aeon 02 November, 2017 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is director of the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas, a trained concert pianist, and the author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (201..

A Painter Who Merged Korean Art Traditions with Abstract Expressionism A retrospective at the Korea Society sheds light on the work of a painter who joined Korean influences and techniques with Abstract Expressionism. Britta Lokting16 hours agoHyperallergic, Oct. 2017 Po Kim at 417 Lafayette (courtesy The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery) There is a curious oasis on the eight..

How the human got his paintbrush What can evolution tell us, if anything, about human achievements in the arts? Not as much as EO Wilson thinks by Philip Ball /Prospect/ October 9, 2017 Herman Kruyder painted this self portrait for a 1917 exhibition. Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Edward O Wilson, the octogenarian Harvard biologist and ethologist, is one of the most productive,..