Literary.NonFiction

I swear I didn’t make this up

Category: Culture

Seriously

I’m addicted to a number of things on the internet, some pleasures being guiltier than others, but one particularly guiltless pleasure of the world wide web is my access the videos of the TED conference.

A friend of mine recently directed me to a very interesting video from this conference by Paula Scher which, I not [...]

Origins of the Cool

One summer during college, I took a music history course on the elusive and esoteric art form of Jazz, “the only truly American art form” according to my professor. He (Mr. P.) was what one would expect in a music history teacher at a local community college: a white middle class male, an [...]

The Birth of The Cool

Really bummed that I missed this exhibit at the Oakland museum.

Here’s the exhibit in Boston and a book
here’s the schedule:
Birth of the Cool Tour Schedule:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
February 15-April 13, 2008
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
May 18–August 17, 2008
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
September 19–January 5, 2009
Blanton [...]