Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: Weekly Cultural Highlights 6/24/22

“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!

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Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:

Reading: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever

Purchase here.

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Listening: “Apples” by Sun’s Signature, the new project of Elizabeth Fraser & Damon Reece. To listen, click here: Spotify, Apple Music or Youtube

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Looking: Les Grappes de raisin (A Cluster of Grapes) by Séraphine de Senlis (c. 1930)

Les Grappes de raisin (A Cluster of Grapes) by Séraphine de Senlis (c. 1930) [Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons]

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Viewing: Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (Paramount+)

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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.

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And for your next dinner party, here’s Alexander Small’s Dinner Party Playlist:

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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)

Editor’s Note (8/26/24): This title is currently out of print. However, the audio book is still available for purchase here. As an alternative, consider the following volume, which contains many (though unfortunately not all) of the essays from the above volume:

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[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.]

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Listening: Traversées by Constantinople and Ablaye Cissoko

To listen, click here: Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube or Bandcamp

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Looking: The Art of Rember Yahuarcani

Rember Yahuarcani at Anturion Gallery

The Song of the Butterflies (PBS documentary)

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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)

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Tasting: Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi (Hulu)

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That’s it for this week! What are your reading, listening, looking, viewing and/or tasting recommendations?