From Artforum, a review of Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century by Gerald Raunig (and the introduction). From Bookforum, a review of Allan Antliff’s Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. A review of The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City by Elizabeth Currid. A review of Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: Gay Literary Life After Stonewall by Felice Picano. An excerpt from Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy by Michael S. Sherry. A review of Greg Bottoms’s The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art. From Print, Local Projects is turning museums into places where people interact with information—and each other. Its latest commission will have the whole country joining the conversation; and Getty Images revolutionized the stock photo business. Now that the industry is shifting again, is Getty’s future in jeopardy?
From Commentary, Terry Teachout on Selling Classical Music. A review of Debussy: The Quiet Revolutionary by Victor Lederer. A review of John Worthen’s Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician and Beate Perrey’s The Cambridge Companion to Schumann. The dark heart of German culture: A review of The Wagner Clan by Jonathan Carr (and more). The science of music: Why does music affect us like no other art? An American scientist thinks he can explain these "glorious illusions". A review of The House That George Built: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed. A review of Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. From Cafe Babel, Bernstein’s cult West Side Story first hit Broadway in 1957. Fifty years later, John Travolta fights the fatsuit in the remake of Hairspray whilst Edinburgh's Jihadi heroes "Wanna Be Like Osama" - - the musical is in meltdown.
From Wired, how Mark Zuckerberg turned Facebook into the Web's hottest platform. Companions through the ages: Many commentators knock it but Facebook friendship, with its rigid conventions, is a little like the medieval convention of courtly love. Inside the Googleplex: It is rare for a company to dominate its industry while claiming not to be motivated by money. Google does. But it has yet to face a crisis. Who's afraid of Google? The world's internet superpower faces testing times. How the internet has changed the world: Weren’t we some type of King Kong-esque beast before we started riding Segways and drinking chai at WiFi hotspots? Did you know that eBay started as a place to sell Pez dispensers? The story goes like this. Nobody's perfect: Constant software updates remind us that we are all works in progress. The Web is the Worst Place to Grieve: LiveJournal suicides, Theresa Duncan, and why you need to shut your laptop to mourn the dead.
