Tim Riley, Music Critic

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• Banksy Coke Bottle May 24, 2013
  # Banksy – Letter on Advertising | Rap Genius #   # Related articles A Solution to Intrusive Advertising The Coke Ad That Could Destroy All Other Products, Especially Coke ‘Lost’ Banksy mural may fetch £1 million at London auction Banksy’s Re-use of the Accidental Napalm Image Banksy New Banksy on Park Row? #
• DETERIORATA XIII:1 BERNSTEIN, 50 SHADES, CLIVE JAMES, EE CUMMINGS, BELUSHI April 22, 2013
  # By far the most influential musicology of my young adulthood, steering me towards specialization. # via Open Culture: Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures (1973). See Elitism for Dummies (on Young People’s Concerts, 2005) # via NYRB: Why So Popular? by Tim Parks # Touching yourself” was strictly forbidden in the Parks family. My father was an [...]
• DENK, SCHWARTZ, SEBOK April 8, 2013
  # Jeremy Denk wrote a piece in the current New Yorker about two of his piano teachers, one of whom we shared. A friend wrote to ask about my reaction, so I replied: # “Joseph Schwartz was really quite a terrific teacher, and invested in the idea of teaching on an individual level. We were all [...]
• DUCHAMP WAS HERE March 15, 2013
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• JAGGER, ESCHER, LEIGHTON March 11, 2013
  # Refused at first, then bought three months later. Interview with cartoonist Robert Leighton at Inkspill | Inkspill – New Yorker Cartoonists News. # And this: Mick Jagger to MC Escher, Escher demurs. #   #   # Related articles These hyper-realistic drawings mess with your mind Godel Escher Bach QR Code shadow cube “Isaac Newton [...]