Weekend Reading List
The state of fashion journalism, the fate of ‘world-scale’ art exhibitions and the creation of a British Islam: what to read this weekend
The state of fashion journalism, the fate of ‘world-scale’ art exhibitions and the creation of a British Islam: what to read this weekend
- In fashion, ‘every insider lives in fear of becoming an outsider.’ A discussion on the state of fashion journalism over at Vestoj asks: why is it so hard for people who work in fashion to be critical of the industry?
- ‘It was the change of place, I think, that allowed me to see Documenta and shows like it as obsolete’: Barry Schwabsky in The Nation on whether there’s any use in big, ‘world-scale’ art exhibitions.
- Receiving its world premiere at South London Gallery this weekend, here on frieze.com Adam Harper writes on how Tom Phillips’s Irma Opus XIIB – a work that begins to question the genre of opera itself – is being staged.
- The same sonic role in the same places: why K-pop is the same as classic rock.
- For all the stories of ‘noble poverty’ or historial curiosity, there’s a fascinating long-read in the Guardian on the story of how the British aristocracy preserved their power – their private wealth remains phenomenal, with one recent report noting a third of the country’s land still belongs to them.
- And don’t miss Nabeelah Jaffer writing in the TLS on Britishness and Islam.
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