- Karen Archey wonders why creative workers get a pass to be assholes. In a fictitious conversation she uses the term “Rain Man of Criticism” to describe one unnamed asshole people feel compelled to work with. May we never meet this person. [e-flux conversations]
- Arts critics are suffering from increasingly strained relationships with the institutions they cover. Opera Australia has removed two critics from their comp list, including one from The Sydney Morning Herald after having received negative reviews. And Theatre Critic Joanne Kaufman from the Wall Street Journal was blacklisted by a press agent from receiving free tickets to show, after she admitted to bolting from certain shows at intermission. This podcast focuses on Denver’s Colorado Public Radio which announced last year it that it will no longer carry broadcasts of the Colorado Symphony. Apparently the main reason for this was editorial—the symphony wanted a lot more positive coverage on the radio. [WQXR via: Hyperallergic]
- Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University senior who has become nationally known for her performance “Carry That Weight,” will be attending Tuesday’s State of the Union address. She was invited by New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who supports the bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act. [Jezebel]
- This “Anime Tongue Tattoos” photo spread looks like a DIS photo shoot, but less weird. Very Internet-y, very Miley, and very many blue wigs. Pretty much, this photo spread crushes anything that once was alt into a pretty, plastic-coated display. [VICE]
- China’s Ice-Sculpture Disneyland. [UPI]
- In sci-fi movies and lit, female robots are always sexy pleasure machines. [The Guardian]
- A dictionary of Harlem Renaissance slang circa 1938. Some terms still stick with us, like “hep cat” and “jive”; others, like “barbecue” (which means girlfriend), have gone the way of slang like “eat my shorts.” [Open Culture]
- 99% Invisible, a podcast about design, architecture and invisible activity has a great segment on chairs called “On the Edge of Your Seat.” These things are more dangerous than you think—silent killers! For those in the office today, use the posture tips. [99% Invisible]
- “Civil rights” and “Martin Luther King Day” now brings up an American flag emoji for Chinese chat users, which is offensive. [The Verge]
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this is a mild re-phrasing of what I just commented on e-flux:
I’m a little suspicious of how quickly Archey dismisses her complicity in this and the way she does it (“trust me, I’m not an asshole when I can be”…?) but more so I can not agree with how quickly she blows past the different sociability of people on the autism spectrum to land at how these people are fetishized. That doesn’t even sound like who she’s actually talking about in the brief straw-man portion of the post… though it’s easy to agree with the sentiment, I don’t know about any of this on closer inspection…
The Archey post is an extended “subtweet” where she passive-aggressively doesn’t address the person she’s complaining about. With a straw man rain man thrown in for good measure. The argument balloons from one Turing-like critic (yeah, who the heck could that be in the art world’s land of compromise?) to generalities about all “creatives,” or rather, all male ones. For the most part, interactions between editors and writers, and between curators and artists, are struggles over creative control, with each party dancing around the personality quirks of the other party. Too many quirks on either side and the transaction falls apart. But that’s not a very dramatic article (accompanied by a painting of Narcissus).
Yeah, I imagined the whole thing was about Brian Droitcour, so I found that enjoyable (even if it’s about him at all).
Yes, if it was an extended character demolition of Brian Droitcour, with him mentioned by name, it would be a different article (and likely not written at all). What’s surprising are all the thoughtful, prose-y responses from this e-flux group. Do they not see the post for what it is, or do they just like the sound of their own typing?
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