Friday, 8/20/10

by musicclipoftheday

Here’s more from the guy who, the other day, we heard live in Slovenia.

Bob Dylan, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin'” (2009)

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Howlin’ Wolf (with Hubert Sumlin, guitar; Hosea Lee Kennard, piano; Alfred Elkins, bass; Earl Phillips, drums), “Who’s Been Talking” (Chess Records, Chicago, 1957)

More Howlin’ Wolf? Here.

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art beat

The New Yorker (8/16/10) writes of Matisse’s Bathers by a River, which is currently on view, in the exhibit “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917,”  at the Museum of Modern Art: “it consumes at least as much aesthetic energy as it imparts.” Except when it’s on loan elsewhere, this painting hangs at Chicago’s Art Institute. Over the years I’ve seen it dozens (maybe hundreds) of times. Never once, as I looked at it, did it occur to me how much “aesthetic energy” it was “consum[ing].”

Henri Matisse, Bathers by a River (1909-16)