“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell
Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. This week’s recommendations are discussed in episode two of our new podcast! Available to everyone! Click above to listen and see below for links about the things we discussed. Enjoy!
Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:
Reading: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
Listening: “Apples” by Sun’s Signature, the new project of Elizabeth Fraser & Damon Reece. To listen, click here: Spotify, Apple Music or Youtube
Looking: Les Grappes de raisin (A Cluster of Grapes) by Séraphine de Senlis (c. 1930)
Viewing: Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (Paramount+)
Tasting: Mother Africa Sauce recipe from the cookbook: Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day by Alexander Smalls, JJ Johnson and Veronica Chambers.
And for your next dinner party, here’s Alexander Small’s Dinner Party Playlist:
Ryan Elston’s Recommendations:
Reading: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948-1985 by James Baldwin (especially “Stranger in the Village” and The Fire Next Time)
[James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, is a 1989 documentary from the American Masters series, which can be viewed in some regions via PBS here.]
Listening: Traversées by Constantinople and Ablaye Cissoko
To listen, click here: Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube or Bandcamp
Looking: The Art of Rember Yahuarcani
Rember Yahuarcani at Anturion Gallery
The Song of the Butterflies (PBS documentary)
Viewing: The Stand-Up Comedy of Jaye McBride
Check out this HILARIOUS brief comedy clip here!
Full stand-up set in Amy Schumer Presents: Parental Advisory (Netflix)
Tasting: Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi (Hulu)
That’s it for this week! What are your reading, listening, looking, viewing and/or tasting recommendations?
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