Today I attended a lecture by Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for the New York Times at Middlebury Collecge. He spoke about the relationship between art and culture. One aspect of the talk that resonated with me was an example of a man who had a studio apartment near the UN (tudor city I would guess) who had pine bookshelves with a highly curated collection of books, most of them paperbacks, but a collection of books which was like an evolving self portrait. Kimmelman touched on the idea that the global art world is more connected to a marketplace, to sensation and fashion than as it is to a culture. I like the idea of a collector collecting a body of work that reflects how one sees themselves or wants to place themselves in a community, an evolving perspective and reflection of self.
Once again I thought of David Crawford's stop motion studies which seem to me a common and global reflection of subway rider culture.
and this npr interview with Alain de Botton which is also interesting and relevant.
Of course Twig Farm cheese is a reflection of our local culture. I mean really local culture. As in of our grass and goats and Michael's hands. But the cheese is probably off topic for this post.
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