{"id":7878,"date":"2010-10-10T01:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2013-02-03T04:08:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:08:35","slug":"weekend-links-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/10\/weekend-links-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esao.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"andrews1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/andrews1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blue Sky Noise (2010) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esao.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esao Andrews<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuegalerie.org\/exhibitions\/messerschmidt\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Xaver Messerschmidt<\/a> is the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to the 18th-century sculptor. Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/23\/the-art-of-franz-xaver-messerschmidt-1736-1783\/\">an earlier post<\/a> about the artist&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How are the team behind <em>War Horse<\/em> planning to follow up their smash hit? With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/stage\/2010\/oct\/03\/gay-puppets-war-horse\" target=\"_blank\">a gay love story performed by puppets<\/a>. Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jpax3l19zw\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Achilles<\/em><\/a> (1995) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrypurves.com\/Films\/Achilles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barry JC Purves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More great posts at A Journey Round My Skull: <a href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/czechoslovakian-expose-vi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Czechoslovakian Expose VI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/black-cradle-of-bright-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Cradle of Bright Life<\/a>, fifteen works by the Macedonian artist Vangel Naumovski (1924\u20132006).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranker.com\/list\/top-10-anti-gay-activists-caught-being-gay\/joanne?page=1&amp;format=blogstyle_view\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Anti-Gay Activists Caught Being Gay<\/a>. Related: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/10\/01\/sl-letter-of-the-day-sorry-nothing-fun\" target=\"_blank\">Fuck your feelings<\/a>,&#8221; in which columnist Dan Savage gets righteously impatient when a correspondent complains. As Savage says, people who use their faith as a stick to beat gay people contribute to an atmosphere of intolerance in which kids are bullied for being gay (or appearing to be), or transgender, or merely different, and kill themselves as a result. Over the past couple of weeks there&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2010\/10\/gay-teen-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\">an upsurge of US media attention<\/a> to the most recent suicides; Savage inaugurated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/itgetsbetterproject\" target=\"_blank\">It Gets Better<\/a> project in order to help. Also related: <a href=\"http:\/\/godlovespoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">God Loves Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esao.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"andrews2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/andrews2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Meigh (2010) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esao.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esao Andrews<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/alteredzones.com\/posts\/292\/guest-post-antony-hegarty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antony Hegarty enthuses<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savoy.abel.co.uk\/HTML\/shoot.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shoot Yer Load<\/em><\/a>, one of the scurrilous 12&#8243; singles released by my Savoy colleagues in the 1980s. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonyandthejohnsons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antony and the Johnsons<\/a> have a new album out, <em>Swanlights<\/em>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlycanadian.com\/artist.php?name=antony\" target=\"_blank\">Secretly Canadian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/johngall.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/when-future-of-music-was-rainbow-hued.html\" target=\"_blank\">When the future of music was a rainbow hued parabola<\/a>: book designer John Gall collects old synthesizer manuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/fantastic-memories-by-maurice-sandoz.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fantastic Memories<\/em><\/a> (1944) by Maurice Sandoz, illustrated by Salvador Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/urban-optometry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Urban optometry<\/a>: life as a London crane operator at BLDGBLOG.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Today is 10\/10\/10 which means it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powersof10.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powers of Ten Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/oct\/07\/these-new-puritans-hidden-interview\" target=\"_blank\">These New Puritans: a band like no other<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/exhibitions.europeana.eu\/exhibits\/show\/art-nouveau\/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">Art Nouveau<\/a>: a virtual exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2010\/oct\/09\/diaghilev-ballets-russes-victoria-albert\" target=\"_blank\">Diaghilev: Lord of the dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qttI6oytqpw\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Flaming Telepaths<\/em><\/a> (1974) by Blue \u00d6yster Cult; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jxj2D2jEqok\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Flaming Telepaths<\/em><\/a> (2005) by Espers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Sky Noise (2010) by Esao Andrews. \u2022 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to the 18th-century sculptor. Related: an earlier post about the artist&#8217;s work. \u2022 How are the team behind War Horse planning to follow up their smash hit? With a gay love story performed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/10\/weekend-links-33\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 33&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,8,58,2,42,56,4,29,21,7,5,3,44,14,17,41,18,46],"tags":[1041,1271,1585,1839,1841,1843,1840,1344,1844,1838,809,1845,87,151,1777,1059,1842],"class_list":["post-7878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-books","category-dance","category-design","category-electronica","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-painting","category-politics","category-psychedelia","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-theatre","tag-a-journey-round-my-skull","tag-antony-and-the-johnsons","tag-antony-hegarty","tag-barry-jc-purves","tag-bldgblog","tag-blue-oyster-cult","tag-dan-savage","tag-esao-andrews","tag-espers","tag-franz-xaver-messerschmidt","tag-john-gall","tag-maurice-sandoz","tag-salvador-dali","tag-savoy-books","tag-sergei-diaghilev","tag-these-new-puritans","tag-vangel-naumovski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-234","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}