Weekend Reading List
Robert Mapplethorpe’s sex life, diversity in museums and a guide to avant garde organ music – what we’ve been reading this week
Robert Mapplethorpe’s sex life, diversity in museums and a guide to avant garde organ music – what we’ve been reading this week
• At the London Review of Books, Jackson Lears discusses ‘modernist pharaoh’ Robert Moses, the man who built New York
• Charles Gaines on the challenges and possibilities raised by tackling diversity in museum exhibitions and collections
• In the New Yorker, Amanda Petrusich, on the increasing speed of music criticism
• Robert Mapplethorpe’s ex-lover Jack Fritscher remembers life with the photographer and his search for ‘intelligent sex’
• What is a devotional object and how is it distinct from an art object?
• In The Quietus, music duo Matmos discuss their career and their latest album Ultimate Care II
• Is online shaming now being officially sanctioned as a tool of law enforcement?
• If you’ve been looking for a list of avant garde organ players Phillip Clark has helpfully compiled one over at The Wire for your listening pleasure
