Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Great Contemporary Art Bubble
A timely documentary on the gallerists, collectors and auction houses. http://www.benlewis.tv
The Social Network
A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com
Modernist Cuisine
Nathan Myhrvold, the former CTO of Microsoft, has self-published a six-volume, two-thousand-four-hundred-page, six-hundred-and-twenty-dollar cookbook. Take a look. http://modernistcuisine.com
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Random Thoughts
Because we have recently begun to find ourselves so unable to get things done, we tend to look with a certain overidealistic yearning when it comes to China. We see what they have done and project onto them something we miss, fearfully miss, in ourselves” — that “can-do,” “get-it-done,” “everyone-pull-together,” “whatever-it-takes” attitude that built our highways, dams and put a man on the moon. These were hallmarks of our childhood culture. But now we view our country turning into the opposite, even as we see China becoming animated by these same kinds of energies. I don’t idealize China’s system of government. I don’t want to live in an authoritarian system. But I do feel compelled to look at China in an objective way and acknowledge the successes of this system. That doesn’t mean advocating that we become like China. It means being alive to the challenge we are up against and even finding ways to cooperate with China. The very retro notion that we are undisputedly still No.1 is extremely dangerous.
- Orville Schell
http://orvilleschell.com
http://asiasociety.org
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com
Spot on.
- Orville Schell
http://orvilleschell.com
http://asiasociety.org
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com
Spot on.
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