Archive


Category: Reading

  • Andy Warhol and the Persistence of Modernism – NYTimes.com

    Postmodernism in the arts repudiated many of the basic teachings of modernism: the myth of individual genius, for example, and the concept of originality. Yet arts institutions continued to operate throughout the postmodern period, and do so right up to the present moment, as though that critique never happened. Museums, foundations, government endowments, and university art departments all effortlessly absorbed a movement which was more or less devoted to destroying their conception of the arts. They treated […]

  • La Yegros Viene de Mi

    She’s from Missiones, the northernmost part of Argentina’s Mesopotamia (between the rivers). Her label is ZZK, the hippest avant-folk label in Buenos Aries… Just bought it yesterday, and I’m loving the whole album.

David Brendan O'Meara on substack

Archives