while the city sleeps

. . . I search for links.  Here goes:

- Charles Giuliano on Ed Ruscha at Harvard.  I had this one down as not to be missed, and then lost the date. 

- Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

- The new art history = one-party state? (And note to Robert Storr: there's a lot of ground between Thermidor and empire - let's just call this the Directory.)

- Franklin had this one last week, but anyway, Artinfo interviews Sean Scully.

- You know what Boston's got too much of?  Art criticism and coverage.   Perhaps emblematic: scroll down to the bottom of the Globe's Theater/Arts page.  Notice the tennis tournament headlines mixed in with arts stories.  Every time I look, there are a few there.  Nothing against the good people at the Globe, but can someone tell their web people that the word "Masters" doesn't always refer to dead painters?

- New link at right: Amp Power.  Check it out.  I hope to add more links to the sidebar soon, as well as reorganize it a bit.  But that's all I got for now.

UPDATE: OK, two more.  HubArts.com and WBUR's Arts Blog added to the links at right.  Both are self-explanatory, I think, and quite good for Boston-area arts information, ideas, and analysis.  I actually used to have WBUR listed before, but I think they may have changed the url without me knowing: I'd click on the link and get a page that hadn't been updated in months, and so finally scrapped it.  But this one seems to be the real deal.  Incidently, the title for the WBUR one is actually "Attitudes."  I try to respect whatever people name their sites and list them accordingly, but sorry, I can't get with that.  It will have to go by its subtitle here.

Comments

[Tyler Green]

Wait a second, how does Boston have too much art criticism? Seems to me the link complains that Boston has too many flack-placed features and not enough criticism...

[JL]

Wait a second, how does Boston have too much art criticism?

Through the magic of a little thing called "sarcasm."

[Franklin]

Not just tennis. I could never figure out why that was happening until you pointed out the "masters" thing. Ah so.

[JL]

If bowling isn't an art, I don't know what is.