Week of July 18, 2022
A timely oral history of Barbara Kruger’s artwork, Your Body is a Battleground.
From The New Yorker, What We’re Reading This Summer.
NASA’s Webb Telescope Instagram account. Plus, How Many People Are in Space Right Now?
Jerry’s Map. I love when artist’s create their own worlds.
Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965. And just as a reminder of what genius sounds like, Take the A Train (1962). Although my favorite is Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue from Newport 1956 with an absolutely barn-burning sax solo from Paul Gonzales starting at the 4-minute mark and climaxing 6 minutes later. Here’s the full story.