Great Reading Around the Web, Old and New

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An interview with designer Martin Baas by Brian Fichtner over at Cool Hunting. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore discovers more about his young idol/hero Patti Smith in this Bomb magazine interview. The Future of Art in an Age of Crisis — Part 1 by David Walsh explores its own title, over at the World Socialist Web Site. A Sociobiological take on “The Subtle Art of Exclusion” in an article by Robert Weissberg entitled Stuff White People Like, on the site Taki’s Magazine. Not Death of Newspapers, But Death of Advertising article by James Fallows in the Atlantic, available online. Probing seminal article on controversy Dash Snow begs the questions, what is art, who is art, can life be art, is this just the boring artworld getting too high on itself, in New York Magazine. Interview with me, Matty Byloos on Don’t Smell the Floss, conducted by Henry Baum, editor of Self Publishing Review: an online resource for writers. Andrei Codrescu interview: Exquisite Corpse Editor, author of Wakefield converses with Robert Birnbaum on Identity Theory.com. The New Republic features a piece by Jed Perl on the museum collected art in Los Angeles.