{"id":2530,"date":"2008-09-24T07:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:05:58","slug":"under-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/under-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Under the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barring a major investor jumping in during a time of financial panic, it looks like the Official Newspaper of Gil Roth<\/a> will be shutting down in a week. How’s today’s Arts+ section looking?<\/p>\n

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  1. Victor Davis Hanson reviews Martin Creveld’s The Culture of War<\/a>: “he presents himself as a Thucydidean”!
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  2. Steven Nadler reviews Joel Kramer’s biography on the Great RaMBaM<\/a>: “From Moses to Moses, there was no one like Moses”!<\/li>\n
  3. Eric Ormsby reviews Fernandoz Baez’ history of the destruction of books<\/a>: “Unlike Borges, who delighted in inventing titles which don’t exist (but should), Mr. B\u00c3\u00a1ez describes books and whole libraries that fell prey not only to fire and flood but to sheer human malevolence”. . .<\/li>\n
  4. And speaking of Borges, Alberto Manguel reviews William Goldbloom Bloch’s The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel<\/a>: “Mr. Bloch notes in his preface that the ideal reader of his book is Umberto Eco”!?<\/li>\n
  5. Paula Deitz writes up the Venice Biennale of Architecture<\/a>: “Two different exhibitions featured walls of refrigerators as stand-ins for enclosed spaces”?!<\/li>\n
  6. In a rare disappointment for me, it turned out that Valerie Gladstone’s Bacon and Rothko in London<\/a> does not actually involve pork products: “‘What I find amazing,’ Mr. Gale said, ‘is that even after all the preparation for this exhibition, looking at Bacon’s paintings still makes my spine tingle. I never stop being overwhelmed.'”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And a bonus! This weekend, the New York Times wrote about the Sun’s plight<\/a>! While it can’t be bothered to mention the Sun’s top-notch arts coverage until a passing ref. 6 paragraphs from the end — presumably because it puts the Times’ coverage to shame — it does manage to include a quote from a writer at The Nation<\/em> who called the Sun \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a paper that functions as a journalistic SWAT team against individuals and institutions seen as hostile to Israel and Jews”! Awesome! Now I can miss it even more. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Barring a major investor jumping in during a time of financial panic, it looks like the Official Newspaper of Gil Roth will be shutting down in a week. How’s today’s Arts+ section looking? Victor Davis Hanson reviews Martin Creveld’s The Culture of War: “he presents himself as a Thucydidean”! Steven Nadler reviews Joel Kramer’s biography … <\/p>\n

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