From NYRB, an article on Denise Scott Brown, the world’s foremost female architect. The Economist discovers a surprise cache of Marcel Duchamp's urinals. Rogue urinals: Has the art market gone Dada? A review of Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era by Douglas Kellner. Does arts criticism have a future? Norman Lebrecht marks the launch of New Statesman's search for young music critics. A critic’s place, thumb and all: Is there a future for arts criticism? Cinema's Invisible Art: The literary pleasures to be had from reading well-written scene action can be extremely powerful — and yet are largely overlooked. Bad times for good art: For unknown artists to make any money, they need to be known, and to be "known," they need to be able to afford the time to make work, which requires money — you see the Catch-22? An interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist on books on contemporary art. From The L Magazine, Pacman is dead, but it wasn't the red ghost that finally caught up with him: Benjamin Sutton on the video game as art; and Henry Stewart on the art of the video game score. The art world no longer wonders what to make of Chris Ofili's dung-pocked canvasses — instead, they wonder what he will make next. On Value: Paula Marantz Cohen on the strange process of determining worth. The Color of Money: An article on Mark Rothko and selling out in the art world. A review of Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen's Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics. Coming off acclaim for The Wire, David Simon takes his approach to New Orleans. Visual art and music are often studied separately, even though seeing and hearing are inexorably linked; Geeta Dayal on books that examine the myriad connections and convergences between sound and painting, architecture, and film.
