Linton Chiswick
Linton Chiswick
@lintonchiswick.bsky.social
Writer.
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Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney
Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney
At a time when much of animation was consumed with little anthropomorphized animals sporting white gloves, Oskar Fischinger went in a completely different direction. His work is all about dancing geom...
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February 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Howard Riley (16 February 1943–8 February 2025)

The UK jazz and free music pianist died in February aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Julian Cowley’s 2010 interview in The Wire 318 free to read in our online library.

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February 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"His abstract drawings—a private language of symbols and notations—have remained a closely guarded secret." Plus 3 free performances on the first Saturday of each month. #johnzorn
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The Drawing Center: John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography
The Drawing Center
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February 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I know people have lost their lives, but it's still got to be okay to feel very sad about this. #schoenberg #lafire
Vast Trove of Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Is Destroyed in Fire
An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer, were destroyed when the publishing company his heirs founded burned down.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics

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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review's just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of m...
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December 26, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917–21)

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Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917–21)
Surrealism, Discordianism, Frank Zappa, Situationism, punk rock, the Residents, Devo… the anarchists of counterculture in all their various guises may never have come into being—or into the being they...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:11 PM