Re-titled, re-found
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imomusRe-Title is something I've been waiting a long time for: a page which lists what's on in the world of the visual arts internationally. Or, in its own words, "an international contemporary art listings guide and directory of artists worldwide". The interface is clean and practical and there's a reasonable depth of detail on either the artist or the show listed. Clever programming allows re-title to gather images and blurbs from art-related sites automatically. You can access secondary pages by clicking on the name of the artist or gallery, and the detailed information (with photographs) is presented within Re-Title's format. If you then want to leave their site and see the gallery's own page, the link is there. That's one level more detail than a local listings site like Tokyo's RealTokyo provides. What's more, Re-Title is international; there's even a little Java applet telling me the current time in art capitals from Berlin to Los Angeles.
Re-title's claim to represent the art world universally is (like many such universalist claims) somewhat overblown. The system doesn't yet know as much about Paris and Tokyo as it knows about London and New York, for instance. A keyword search on Paris produces a paltry 16 shows compared to London's 269, and New York pits a whopping 576 art shows against Tokyo's pathetic 3. This is not an accurate representation of the art scenes in these cities, and shouldn't be presented as such. But I'm glad re-title exists, and I'll certainly be using it to plan my forthcoming trips to London, Paris and New York. (By the way, the images on this page are from a show I'll be seeing in Paris, Bob Foundation & Tomoko Mitsuma's "Jeune design japonais" at La Peripherie.)
There's something the world has been waiting an even longer time for, something which has arrived quite unexpectedly, and quite miraculously. As The Independent reports, a new technique developed from infra-red satellite imaging systems is revealing, line by line and page by page, the meaning of a huge cache of lost classical texts discovered on an Egyptian rubbish dump over a century ago. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (paper from the "city of the sharp-nosed fish") may contain hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Lucian and hundreds of others. Great works lost for millenia may emerge:
"The previously unknown texts, read for the first time last week, include parts of a long-lost tragedy - the Epigonoi ("Progeny") by the 5th-century BC Greek playwright Sophocles; part of a lost novel by the 2nd-century Greek writer Lucian; unknown material by Euripides; mythological poetry by the 1st-century BC Greek poet Parthenios; work by the 7th-century BC poet Hesiod; and an epic poem by Archilochos, a 7th-century successor of Homer, describing events leading up to the Trojan War. Additional material from Hesiod, Euripides and Sophocles almost certainly await discovery." There may be lost Christian gospels amongst the papers, written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament. Since there's some Lucian in there, there's also likely to be lots of new backstory for the character I've chosen as my alter ego, Momus.
The Independent, in an editorial, trails the possibility of a second renaissance as a result of this incredible find. A second renaissance is exactly what the 21st century needs. Count me in!
Re-title's claim to represent the art world universally is (like many such universalist claims) somewhat overblown. The system doesn't yet know as much about Paris and Tokyo as it knows about London and New York, for instance. A keyword search on Paris produces a paltry 16 shows compared to London's 269, and New York pits a whopping 576 art shows against Tokyo's pathetic 3. This is not an accurate representation of the art scenes in these cities, and shouldn't be presented as such. But I'm glad re-title exists, and I'll certainly be using it to plan my forthcoming trips to London, Paris and New York. (By the way, the images on this page are from a show I'll be seeing in Paris, Bob Foundation & Tomoko Mitsuma's "Jeune design japonais" at La Peripherie.)
There's something the world has been waiting an even longer time for, something which has arrived quite unexpectedly, and quite miraculously. As The Independent reports, a new technique developed from infra-red satellite imaging systems is revealing, line by line and page by page, the meaning of a huge cache of lost classical texts discovered on an Egyptian rubbish dump over a century ago. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (paper from the "city of the sharp-nosed fish") may contain hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Lucian and hundreds of others. Great works lost for millenia may emerge:
"The previously unknown texts, read for the first time last week, include parts of a long-lost tragedy - the Epigonoi ("Progeny") by the 5th-century BC Greek playwright Sophocles; part of a lost novel by the 2nd-century Greek writer Lucian; unknown material by Euripides; mythological poetry by the 1st-century BC Greek poet Parthenios; work by the 7th-century BC poet Hesiod; and an epic poem by Archilochos, a 7th-century successor of Homer, describing events leading up to the Trojan War. Additional material from Hesiod, Euripides and Sophocles almost certainly await discovery." There may be lost Christian gospels amongst the papers, written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament. Since there's some Lucian in there, there's also likely to be lots of new backstory for the character I've chosen as my alter ego, Momus.
The Independent, in an editorial, trails the possibility of a second renaissance as a result of this incredible find. A second renaissance is exactly what the 21st century needs. Count me in!
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(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 10:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 10:59 am (UTC)Oh, and hello. My name is Kári and I found your livejournal through a Metafilter discussion (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/41238) about Jake Thackray.
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Date: 2005-04-19 11:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 01:29 pm (UTC)The result was lovely and haunting -- they based their scale on still extant modes (though with the gradual shift in actual tuning systems, even that is approximate), with a few modifications (including some quarter tones) -- though there's no way of verifying how accurate their work was.
I'm glad the written word is much more reliable than musical notation.
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Date: 2005-04-19 02:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 03:43 pm (UTC)I know I am now going to be spending the rest of the day creating a mental wish list of the other writers/texts I hope they find.
Finally, excuse by ignorance, but Momus was a creation of Alberti wasn't he? I haven't read Alberti's text, but what, if you don't mind sharing, was most likely his source information on this famous anti-hero? Or is his work largely specualtive and based more on oral tradition? What little I've read doesn't fit with what I know of Alberti's text.
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Date: 2005-04-19 04:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 04:24 pm (UTC)W
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Date: 2005-04-19 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 05:00 pm (UTC)W
a glorious fake...
Date: 2005-04-19 08:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 04:34 pm (UTC)I guess these new finds will be the answer to that...hopefully.
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Date: 2005-04-19 04:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 04:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 07:21 pm (UTC)Personally I'd recommend in London right now:
1. Hernan Bas at the Victoria Miro. The two other artists exhibited right now are pretty interesting conceptually. David Harrison's oils are a tad boring, but sort of perversely Turneresque so whatever, might be your thing.
2. Triumph of Painting at Saatchi. The highlight of this exhibit for me was probably Marlene Dumas, but the oil room was a moment of astonishing beauty as well. It's not a bad idea to go see Beuys at the Tate Modern then go to the Saatchi and see his protege... Wittgenstein? There's some stuff by the Austrian actionists there too, but I felt it really barely made a dent on the stuff I saw in Vienna.
3. Takahashi at Serpentine. Wish I hadn't missed the UV tag night she did in Hyde Park. Am kicking self.
4. Crumb at Whitechapel. Self-explanatory. The little anarchist bookshop situated behind the gallery is also sort of interesting, picked up a copy of "Pornucopia" there.
5. Circling the Square at Somerset House. I just like suprematist tea cups and china. Interesting from a design stand-point.
Have you ever been to a Takahashi installation before? This one was my first. It was overwhelming. I absolutely loved it. I think you'd sympathize with the impulse to use playing, joking, and games as a way to deal with the sheer complexity of the universe.
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Date: 2005-04-19 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 08:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 08:18 pm (UTC)"These are ordinary objects, things we use in our everyday lives," added Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine's director. "Tomoko's brilliance is to rearrange them and give them order. But they were not valuable before she put them together and now they are being recycled back to the public they return to what they were."
Maybe they wanted to avoid the Antiques Roadshow crowd and possibly had the Edmonton Ikea riot (http://www.crowddynamics.com/Disasters/Ikea%207.htm) in mind.
No philosophy?
Date: 2005-04-19 04:55 pm (UTC)East
Re: No philosophy?
Date: 2005-04-19 05:49 pm (UTC)"There has long been speculation that the original Poetics comprised two books, our extant Poetics and a lost second book that supposedly dealt with comedy and/or katharsis."
Re: No philosophy?
Date: 2005-04-19 06:48 pm (UTC)I'm deeply excited by the prospect of reading translated contents of those scrolls - it's almost time to learn Ancient Greek all over again...
Re: No philosophy?
Date: 2005-04-19 06:57 pm (UTC)Re: No philosophy?
Date: 2005-04-19 08:17 pm (UTC)W
Aristotle's lost second book...
Date: 2005-04-20 09:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 08:50 pm (UTC)...the material in question is on papyrus, which is very sensitive to moisture, and has dissapeared almost entirely in the wet parts of Europe; generally it only survives in the dry sands of Egypt and Judaea. An author who circulated widely on papyrus could easily be almost completely unknown to us now due to the instability of that medium and his failure to get copied onto parchment at some crucial point in time.
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Date: 2005-04-20 05:16 am (UTC)TOKYO ART BEAT
Date: 2005-04-20 05:23 am (UTC)We list usually more than 200 events in the Tokyo area, are an NPO, bilingual site, you can save events to your own page, get email reminders of shows you wanna see etc...
http://www.tokyoartbeat.com
TAB
Date: 2005-04-20 05:25 am (UTC)Re: TAB
Date: 2005-04-20 01:02 pm (UTC)