“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!
Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:
Reading: Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable (edited by Dawn Ades, Jennifer R. Gross, Ann Lauterbach & Roger L. Conover)
Listening: The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte by Sparks
Looking: The Art of Jahar Dasgupta
Viewing: Maryland — created by Suranne Jones & Anne-Marie O'Connor, directed by Sue Tully, starring Suranne Jones, Eve Best & Stockard Channing (ITV & ITVX)
Tasting: Ryan Wildstar’s Caesar Pasta
Ryan Elston’s Recommendations:
Reading: The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Listening: London Ko by Fatoumata Diawara
Official Site of Fatoumata Diawara
Fatoumata Diawara: London Ko review – exuberance rules (via The Guardian)
Looking: The Art of Ellsworth Kelly
“I feel that the freedom of colors in space is very much what I’ve always been involved in.” — Ellsworth Kelly
“I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.” — Ellsworth Kelly
Take a beautifully curated virtual tour: Celebrating 100 Years of Ellsworth Kelly!
View many more artworks via the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation!
Viewing: Somebody Somewhere — created by Bridget Everett, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, starring Bridget Everett, Jeff Hiller, Mary Catherine Garrison & Murray Hill (HBO & HBO Max)
Tasting: Cream Puffs from Pasticeri Zagoria (Tirana, Albania)
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That’s it for this week! But we want the dinner party to continue! So each week we are asking a “dinner party” question for everyone joining us here at our table. Last week we asked: “What's your favorite Tina Turner song?” Here are some of the great responses from the comments:
Ryan Wildstar chose “I Might Have Been Queen”
Ryan Elston chose “Two People”
Del Mar chose “What's Love Got to Do With It?”
Cheryl Cullen & kde chose “Proud Mary”
Brenda Bryson chose “River Deep – Mountain High”
Andrea Engstrom chose “Nutbush City Limits”
Thank you everyone for your wonderful responses! That was last week . . . but we don't want this week's dinner party to end either!
So here is this week's question for the table:
After dinner tonight we will be eating those delicious cream puffs . . . which begs the question:
What’s your favorite dessert?
Tell us in the comments and we’ll share some of your responses on next week’s podcast!
And if you can, please don't forget to donate to our crowdfunding campaign! We need your help to make Season 2 a reality!
Cheers to that!
Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: Sparks, Somebody Somewhere, Fatoumata Diawara, Caesar Pasta & Cream Puffs!