“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. Cheers to that!
This Week’s Apéritif: Tsililis Distillery - Theopetra Estate Malagouzia-Assyrtiko (Meteora PGI, Greece)
Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:
Reading: The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis
“Enough Queer Joy”: A Conversation with Caro De Robertis (via Chicago Review of Books)
Listening: Blame It On Eve by Shemekia Copeland
Looking: The Art of Beth Cavener
Official Site of Beth Cavener / Official Shop / Instagram / Patreon
Check out the upcoming exhibition, Beth Cavener: Trust, at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in West Hollywood, CA (on view from September 12 - November 2, 2024!)
Beth Cavener Molds Thousands of Pounds of Clay into Provocative Animals that Grapple with Trust (via Colossal)
Beth Cavener | 'Trust' is the Thing Destroyed and Rebuilt (via Flaunt)
Viewing: Kaos — TV series created by Charlie Covell, starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, Janet McTeer as Hera, Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus, Cliff Curtis as Poseidon, David Thewlis as Hades, Killian Scott as Orpheus, Debi Mazar as Medusa, Stephen Dillane as Prometheus, Aurora Perrineau as Eurydice, Misia Butler as Caeneus, Leila Farzad as Ariadne, Mat Fraser as Daedalus, Rakie Ayola as Persephone, Stanley Townsend as Minos, Billie Piper as Cassandra, Suzy Izzard as Lachy (Lachesis), Ché as Clotho & Sam Buttery as Atropos (Netflix)
I’m an Expert in Ancient Greece – Netflix’s Kaos is the Cleverest Retelling of Greek Mythology I’ve Ever Seen (via The Conversation)
Kaos Review – Jeff Goldblum’s Furiously Fun Greek Gods Drama is a Masterpiece (via The Guardian)
Tasting: Yes Chef: Chef Francis Mallman’s Story/The Master of Fire
Ryan Elston’s Recommendations:
Reading: The Selected Shepherd: Poems by Reginald Shepherd (edited by Jericho Brown)
Read poems by Reginald Shepherd at the Academy of American Poets
Where Desire Plays Out as Allegory: On Reginald Shepherd's Erotic and Lyric Possibilities by Brian Teare (via Poetry Foundation)
Listening: Mileage by Ruthie Foster
Looking: The Art of Julie Buffalohead
Official Site of Julie Buffalohead / Instagram / Works for Sale (via Artsy)
See works by Julie Buffalohead at the installation, Illustrating Agency, (on view until December 1, 2024!), as part of the exhibition, Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum at the Baltimore Museum of Art
For Julie Buffalohead, Animals Express What Words Cannot (via Hyperallergic)
Viewing: Viewing: Kaos — TV series created by Charlie Covell, starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, Janet McTeer as Hera, Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus, Cliff Curtis as Poseidon, David Thewlis as Hades, Killian Scott as Orpheus, Debi Mazar as Medusa, Stephen Dillane as Prometheus, Aurora Perrineau as Eurydice, Misia Butler as Caeneus, Leila Farzad as Ariadne, Mat Fraser as Daedalus, Rakie Ayola as Persephone, Stanley Townsend as Minos, Billie Piper as Cassandra, Suzy Izzard as Lachy (Lachesis), Ché as Clotho & Sam Buttery as Atropos (Netflix)
I’m an Expert in Ancient Greece – Netflix’s Kaos is the Cleverest Retelling of Greek Mythology I’ve Ever Seen (via The Conversation)
Kaos Review – Jeff Goldblum’s Furiously Fun Greek Gods Drama is a Masterpiece (via The Guardian)
Tasting: The Cookbooks of Francis Mallmann
That’s it for this week! But we want the dinner party to continue! Which is why we’re bringing back our weekly “dinner party” question for everyone joining us here at our table.
So here is this week's question for the table:
As our summer in Athens draws to a close, we’ve been delving into some amazing creative reimaginings of Greek mythology, from Kaos to The Palace of Eros to the poetry of Reginald Shepherd. So, in the spirit of ancient Greek myth, our question for the table this week is:
Who is YOUR favorite Greek God or Goddess?
Which legendary immortal deity speaks to you . . . and why? Is it Athena or Dionysus? Hera or Hermes? Hypnos or Hades? Persephone or Gaia?
Tell us your choice in the comments and we’ll share some of your responses on next week’s podcast!
And, as always, thank you for joining us for The Aesthetic Arrest Podcast!
Cheers to that!
Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: Kaos (starring Jeff Goldblum), Shemekia Copeland, Ruthie Foster & The Palace of Eros!