In this morning’s reading: Eric Lundgren talked with The Rumpus; Hyperallergic makes a visit to BRIC House; notes on intellectual horror; and more.
On a trip last week to Seattle, I just north of the neighborhood where I was staying to pay a visit to the Henry Art Gallery. My destination with the gallery was James Turrell’s Light Reign, but before stopping there, I took in Collected Stories: Books by Laurie Anderson. (It’ll be there through February 3.)
The WQXR blog asks: “Is the Vanger family in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo based on the family of Richard Wagner and his descendants” after an LA Times article points out the similarities. Ray Bradbury, Tony Kushner, Laurie Anderson and Frank Stella talk Moby-Dick on a rerun of Studio 360’s “American Icons” series. What do Jami Attenberg and Wal-Mart have in common? New York Starbucks coffee to go up ten cents. D’Angelo covering Soundgarden is the sound of babies being […]
Today is the birth date of Jorge Luis Borges. The Argentinian writer was born in this day in 1899. Google has decided to celebrate his birthday by dedicating their logo to him. Penina Roth’s Franklin Park Reading Series is written up. Blake Butler reviews Wayne Koestenbaum’s Humiliation and Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl Dirty fiction writers of past and present. Stephen Malkmus gives sex advice at Nerve. Many dudes over 30 take everything he says to heart. Back in 1981, […]
Posted by Matthew Caron Laurie Anderson’s “Delusion,” now being staged as the opening feature of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, begins with the words “I want to tell you a story” and ends with the question “Did you ever really love me?” The space between the statement of intent and the final query finds Anderson in a more somber and backward-glancing mode than earlier her works, with death and existential crises taking center stage. Loosely constructed around […]
Let’s just get this out of the way early: Laurie Anderson is an icon. She’s spent most of her career as one of the most innovative and challenging artists around. Her name belongs alongside William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Patti Smith, and Yoko Ono. Plus, the simple fact that 7 out of 10 people will tell you they don’t “get her” makes her icon-material. That’s generally a prerequisite. That, and she’s had the most fantastic haircut since the early 80s. […]