From the NYT article Master of the Form The Function of Criticism “The most important qualification which I have been able to find, which accounts for the peculiar importance of the criticism of practitioners, is that a critic must have a very highly developed sense of fact. This is by no means a trifling or [...]
From the New York Times article Master of the Form: The Function of Criticism Today “Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and those which presently exist, between the past and the [...]
If you were moved by Josh Cacpardo’s June article, Cruel and Usual, about the challenges faced by individuals re-entering society after incarceration, NPR’s All Things Considered has a great story about how Mark Goldsmith, a retired cosmetics executive is helping young inmates at Rikers Island through his non-profit “Getting Out and Staying Out.” “You have [...]
R.R. Reno unveils valuable insight into our shifting priorities, focusing on politics over culture, in his article “Culture Matters More Than Politics” published in “First Things.” Also recently published in “First Things,” Makoto Fujimura writes “A Letter to Young Artists.” “These days, the ability to talk about politics in a knowing way is treated as [...]
Robin Pogrebin unveils the confusing rules, guidelines, and ethical structures meant to discourage museums from selling their collections, as the Philadelphia History Museum auctions artifacts to raise money for million dollar building renovations in the article, “Museum Sells Pieces of Its Past, Reviving a Debate.” “With budgets shrinking in a bad economy, the pressure to [...]
From the WSJ Magazine, the former Disney CEO has reinvented himself as author and new-media entrepreneur. Seeing the potential to reach larger audiences than ever via the Web, the complex mogul talks about the transformation of media from caveman days to those ahead and how content really is king: “I would much rather hire an executive [...]
Cordelia Hebblethwaite, a reporter from the BBC News uncovers the story behind the London exhibit “400 Women” and the international artistic tribute to Mexico’s missing and murdered women. “The murders began in 1993, and for a while captured the world’s attention; dozens of journalists investigated, and numerous books and songs were written. But to date, most [...]
Daniel J. Flynn‘s recent article “Library as Amusement Park” published by City Journal, challenges the modern public library’s embrace of video games as a method of drawing in younger patrons and keeping the masses interested in the life of the mind. “In the midst of branch closings and budget cuts, public libraries have acquired a [...]
From the article, “The Economics of Arts, Artists, and Culture- Making a Better Case” (Grantmakers in the Arts: Reader Vol 20, No. 3 Fall 2009) In a time of economic trial, artists, who stereotypically are often the ones to be jobless, or at least struggling if not famous or “discovered” yet, are facing serious unemployment [...]
In “Effing the Ineffable,” Roger Scruton processes the inevitable question that we encounter as humans, “how do we express that which cannot be said?” “…the real meaning of the world is ineffable. Having got to this point, Aquinas obeyed the injunction of Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concludes with the proposition: ‘that whereof we cannot speak [...]