|
| |
|
I will die from the heat, take me home. I will make my own Pool. – Henri Matisse
Representing water is an elusive proposition for many artists, especially when it’s not posing placidly on a windless, moonlit evening.
In the summer of 1952, Henri Matisse headed to a favorite Cannes swimming pool…
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Brian Eno famously said of the Velvet Underground that, though their debut album didn’t sell well, everyone who bought a copy started a band. One could, perhaps, make a similar remark about a new wave band called The Plastics, who formed a decade or so later on the other side of the Pacific. They recorded…
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Almost all of ancient literature is lost to us, as classical-history Youtuber Garrett Ryan explains in a video previously featured here on Open Culture. But we have even less ancient music, given that form’s essential ephemerality as well as the not-inconsiderable fact that the ancients didn’t have tape recorders. Still, that hasn’t stopped Ryan…
|
|
|
|
