AvatarAlberto Paolucci1 day agoHong Kong artists flee as city grapples with status as arts hub amid rising repressionverified_publisherThe Guardian - Amy HawkinsSome artists have taken their work to Brussels, saying they no longer feel safe, yet the art market back home continues to boom
AvatarAlberto Paolucci2 days agoHarry Partch: The World of Harry PartchPitchfork - Jesse DorrisThe world of Harry Partch was a difficult one. Over the first three-quarters of the 20th century, he moved through it mostly sick and broke, with little sustained attention and even less money paid to his extraordinary world-building. Out of step with the various artistic movements his work would …
AvatarAlberto Paolucci1 day agoHow James Murphy kept his claim to cool with ‘Losing My Edge’faroutmagazine.co.uk - Elle PalmerThe year is 2002, and James Murphy is losing his edge. Years spent crate-digging and mixing obscurities and rarities around the East Village just …
AvatarAlberto Paolucci1 day ago“I think that the whole band was kind of misunderstood by everybody, and it gave us a sort of an edge, you know": The story of Cream's Disraeli Gearsmusicradar.com - By Jamie DicksonTheir volatile genius burned fast and bright, but after three albums and two years of non-stop touring, Cream were finally brought down by blinkered …
AvatarAlberto PaolucciThe Long Debate Over Black Artistry Behind ‘American Fiction’newlinesmag.com - New Lines magazineI was a graduate student earning a doctorate in African-American Literature when I read Percival Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure,” in which a Black …
AvatarAlberto Paolucci"It was a dark place, and we realised we didn't want to go back there": is Radiohead's King Of Limbs not just their most underrated record, but the one that helped save them?musicradar.com - By Rob LaingIt's hard to imagine what it's like inside the eye of the Radiohead creative process; it evolves, it mutates… the band wilfully questions and …