Donald Hall died over the weekend. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, start here.
“Fashions have always come back around again, but now we are living through a kind of Dadaist cut-up of eras, in which brands and companies borrow from, adapt and disrupt any and all time periods; it’s all up for grabs, provided it’s old.” More on hipster nostalgia.
Madness from the American Library Association.
“What little we know for sure about [Jean-Michel] Basquiat can be said simply: An extraordinary painterly sensitivity expressed itself in the person of a young black male, the locus of terror and misgiving in a racist society. That, and rich people love to collect his work.”
“[T]he passing of another milestone on the road to true AI….”? Yawn.
