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Further Reading
Jan. 29th, 2007 06:33 pmFrom the blogs today, two items of interest I wanted to point to:
1. Glenn Greenwald at Unclaimed Territory with an elegant post starting out with the disgusting spectacle of Bill Kristol telling Sen. John Warner his duty as an American, Brit Hume lecturing Sen. Chuck Hagel on courage, and Sen. Lieberman and the Administration equating dissent with treason and their own "strong" posturing with the past glories of Churchill and Lincoln.
Greenwald goes to the actual words and beliefs of Churchill and Lincoln and comes up with a markedly different (and rather moving, if expected) viewpoint.
Everyone seems to be digging and linking to this post by the always cogent Greenwald, but in case you haven't caught it yet, look in.
2. Curbed on the new Jean Nouvel tower on 11th Avenue which will permanently block the 10-story Knox Martin mural, Venus. Does architecture trump art? Does it matter if the art is perhaps middling (or worse) and the architecture is (perhaps) interesting and impressive? For myself, I'm as yet unsure. The mural makes me happy when I see it, as much as for the fact that, "Hey, there's a big piece of abstract art there!" as for any actual feeling towards the work -- a rarer feeling than, "Hey, lookit that kinda neat-looking building!"
The Nouvel does look kinda neat, though -- click through the links at Curbed to see better illustrations. But who knows if it will quite come off that way.
My teeth are also set on edge by the attitude in the comments at Curbed, which get to the level of the classic "My five-year-old could do that!" argument.
(sigh) Well, just one more thing to miss. Not quite as seethe-inducing for me as losing 2 Columbus Circle. And I'm still pissed about Tilted Arc.
1. Glenn Greenwald at Unclaimed Territory with an elegant post starting out with the disgusting spectacle of Bill Kristol telling Sen. John Warner his duty as an American, Brit Hume lecturing Sen. Chuck Hagel on courage, and Sen. Lieberman and the Administration equating dissent with treason and their own "strong" posturing with the past glories of Churchill and Lincoln.
Greenwald goes to the actual words and beliefs of Churchill and Lincoln and comes up with a markedly different (and rather moving, if expected) viewpoint.
Everyone seems to be digging and linking to this post by the always cogent Greenwald, but in case you haven't caught it yet, look in.
2. Curbed on the new Jean Nouvel tower on 11th Avenue which will permanently block the 10-story Knox Martin mural, Venus. Does architecture trump art? Does it matter if the art is perhaps middling (or worse) and the architecture is (perhaps) interesting and impressive? For myself, I'm as yet unsure. The mural makes me happy when I see it, as much as for the fact that, "Hey, there's a big piece of abstract art there!" as for any actual feeling towards the work -- a rarer feeling than, "Hey, lookit that kinda neat-looking building!"
The Nouvel does look kinda neat, though -- click through the links at Curbed to see better illustrations. But who knows if it will quite come off that way.
My teeth are also set on edge by the attitude in the comments at Curbed, which get to the level of the classic "My five-year-old could do that!" argument.
(sigh) Well, just one more thing to miss. Not quite as seethe-inducing for me as losing 2 Columbus Circle. And I'm still pissed about Tilted Arc.
