The picks of the week from around the web.
Rolling Stone: “The Runaway General”. Without question this week’s most exposed piece of journalism, Michael Hasting’s article on the now deposed Gen. Stanley McCrystal, is well-worth spending time with if you only read the summaries. It does much more than convey the disparaging one-liners that lost him the job, revealing fascinating detail about the US war effort in Afghanistan. On a “roll” these days, the magazine this week also offered up this chilling caution about where the next disastrous oil spill might well happen.
The Nation: Barry Schwabsky reviews several interesting great art shows — the eye-opening Matisse exhibition that just closed at Chicago and will be opening at MoMA next month, and the recently closed Købke and De Stijl shows in London. Great writing.
Jim Woodring reads Weathercraft. This walk-through of his masterful new book is well worth it for fans of Woodring.
Above: Henri Matisse, Portrait of Yvonne Landsberg, 1914, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection
Author: Matthias Wivel
http://www.metabunkeren.dk Matthias Wivel is the administrator of the Metabunker. He is Head of Research at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and a co-founder and the current chairman of the Danish Comics Council.
