Stanley Cavell, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, laments that “we would rather murder the world than permit it to expose us to change”

Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell, the U.S. philosopher who is  a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “MARK GREENWOLD Murdering the World, Paintings and Drawings 2007–2013″ (Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, 03.06.13): In the epigraph of the exhibit’s catalogue, Stanley Cavell states, “The cause of tragedy is that we would rather murder the world than permit it to expose us to change,” which evokes Max J. Friedlander’s famous remark, “It’s easier to change your worldview than the way you hold your spoon.”

Mark Greenwold, “Good Fortune” (After Aristotle Ridden by Phyllis), 2013. Oil on linen mounted on panel, 24 × 33”. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.

Max J. Friedlander

 

Alain de Botton, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, cited in “The Thinker | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy”

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton, the UK author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “The Thinker | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy” (Katie Roiphe, New York Times, 31.05.13): We are familiar, of course, with philosopher kings, but is there a new breed of philosopher curators? Another popular philosopher, Alain de Botton, has also turned his attention to art and is curating his own philosophy-infused exhibits that also mix time periods, which will open next year in Amsterdam, Melbourne and Toronto. “The truth is that many visits to museums can be intellectually rather lacking, and philosophy can help us find new ways to give art space in our lives,” he says. “Art can tell us truths philosophy can’t, but it may require a philosopher to tease out these truths.”

Bernard-Henri Lévy with ‘‘L’Intouchable,’’ 2007, by Gloria Friedmann, at the Fondation Maeght in St.- Paul-de-Vence, France, where his show on the relationship between art and philosophy opens this month.

Katie Roiphe

 

Stanley Cavell, un Editor Consultor de Interlitq, citado en El pintor Mark Greenwold utiliza su “cubismo emocional” para “matar al mundo” y rehacerlo

Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell, el filósofo estadounidense que es un Editor Consultor de Interlitq, ha sido citado en El pintor Mark Greenwold utiliza su “cubismo emocional” para “matar al mundo” y rehacerlo (Ánxel Grove, 20 Minutos, 17.05.13): El pintor Mark Greenwold (Cleveland-EE UU, 1940) explica su trabajo con una frase del filósofo Stanley Cavell: “La causa de la tragedia es que deberíamos matar al mundo en lugar de dejar que sea él quien nos exponga al cambio”.

Alain de Botton, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and French author Xavier de Maistre, key to Hala Elkoussy’s Cairo exhibition

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton, the UK author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “The Art of Travel: Journey around downtown Cairo” (Sara Elkamel, Ahram Online, 18.05.13): ”The title and quintessence of this multi-part installation was inspired by French writer Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Autour de ma Chambre (Journey Around My Bedroom). Confined to his room in Turin in the spring of 1790 as a consequence of a duel, De Maistre chose an unlikely pastime; he embarked on a journey around his bedroom and penned the voyage’s discoveries for weeks. Swiss-British writer and philosopher Alain de Botton’s book The Art of Travel is easily spotted within Elkoussy’s armoire and in a way it links this project’s essence most potently with De Maistre’s novel.”

Photograph by Hala Elkoussy in Journey Around My Living Room. (Photo: Mashrabia Gallery)

Xavier de Maistre

In essay for Turner Contemporary catalogue, Marina Warner, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed to Issue 4 of Interlitq, argues that curiosity has long been considered a female vice, a case in point being Nicholas Maes’s painting “An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding”

Marina Warner

Marina Warner, the British author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed prose to Issue 4 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary” (Brian Dillon, The Guardian, 18.05.13): “Warner has been an essential adviser for this exhibition. In an essay for the catalogue, she points out that despite the reality and the fantasy of the avid male curioso and collector, curiosity itself has long been considered a female vice: the besetting sin of tattletales, gossips and domestic spies. There’s an example of the last in the show: the listening servant in Nicolaes Maes’s 1655 painting An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding, which suggests that the whole ordered space of the Dutch interior is a machine for scrutinising the secret lives of others.”

An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding by Nicolaes Maes

Brian Dillon