{"id":656,"date":"2004-04-21T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/the_arts_from_top_to_bottom\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T17:21:43","slug":"the_arts_from_top_to_bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/the_arts_from_top_to_bottom.html","title":{"rendered":"THE ARTS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian in London has launched a week of arts coverage by guest editors, and it’s
\nnot to be missed. On Monday the <\nFONT color=#003399>Franz Ferdinand issue<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> had “a different
\ntake” on tabloid newspapers’ topless pictures (an article <\nFONT color=#003399>about censorship<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> by the
\nphotographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who shot this bottomless image<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>); a tale of <\nFONT color=#003399>music lessons<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (have they improved?);
\nquestions about (mostly British) <\nFONT color=#003399>rock’n’roll mythology<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (is it at an end?), the
\nmerits of <\nFONT color=#003399>two aesthetics<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (minimalist or maximalist?), the
\n<\nFONT color=#003399>stairway to hell<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (why so many musicians
\nself-destruct) and — how could it not? — a <\nFONT color=#003399>debate on blogging<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (have Weblogs
\nrevolutionized the media?). Tuesday’s <\nFONT color=#003399>Sam Taylor-Wood issue<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> led with <\nFONT color=#003399>fashion<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (“Meeting the Queen was like falling
\nin love”), and today’s <\nFONT color=#003399>Max Stafford-Clark issue<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, so far the most
\nparochial, asks whether Britain has <\nFONT color=#003399>culture beyond<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> its main artistic centers. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian in London has launched a week of arts coverage by guest editors, and it’s not to be missed. On Monday the < FONT color=#003399>Franz Ferdinand issue had “a different take” on tabloid newspapers’ topless pictures (an article < FONT color=#003399>about censorship by the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who shot this bottomless image); a tale of < FONT color=#003399>music lessons (have they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}