1. George Starostin's music reviews.
2. Mount Everest now wired for internet and cell phone access.
3. Examples of North Korean painting.
4. Via Chris F. Masse, David Hockney is painting on the iPad.
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1. The painting that I call "A Rainy Street in Pyongyang" is oddly soothing.
2. Nary a male to be seen in any the works.
Once more I have to uneasily acknowledge my preference for the art from the most abhorrent dictatorships over that from democracies: for example I really love Chostakovich and dislike Cage. And in the present case, I prefer these North-Korean paintings to anything done by, say, Marcel Duchamp or Basquiat. Has somebody an explanation for that paradox?
Should we threaten our artists with concentration camps?
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