(Detail) Protesters in London on Saturday calling for a second referendum on Brexit. Credit Niklas Halle’N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.
I qualify only as a spectator to the Brexit scene; however, the informal allegory cited by Roger Cohen in his opinion piece travels well in other precincts.
As a British friend wrote me recently, “I’m just saying if I narrowly decided to order fish at a restaurant that was known for chicken, but said it was happy to offer fish, and so far I’ve been waiting three hours, and two chefs who promised to cook the fish had quit, and the third one is promising to deliver the fish in the next five minutes whether it’s cooked or not, or indeed still alive, and all the waiting staff have spent the last few hours arguing about whether I wanted battered cod, grilled salmon, jellied eels or dolphin kebabs, and if large parts of the restaurant appeared to be on fire but no one was paying attention to it because they were all arguing about fish, I would quite like, just once, to be asked if I definitely still wanted fish.”
(Roger Cohen, “An Election Is the Only Answer for Britain,” NYTimes, 10-23-19)
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I’m Like: Whoa
Judy Chicago’s “10 Part Cylinders,” 1966/2019, some near human in height and others even taller, made of fiberglass over sonotubes, at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles. Credit Judy Chicago; Jeffrey Deitch; Elon Schoenholz.
All bets are off when a subject finds the interviewer’s question “very interesting.” There’s a likelihood that the answer will go its own way. I find that to be the case in this exchange between Jori Finkel, a contributor to the NYTimes and author of “It Speaks to Me: Art That Inspires Artists,” and artist and author Judy Chicago.
Unless I’m missing the boat, Chicago doesn’t quite answer the question that was asked. I find the question quite interesting, having admired work of the Delaunays in times past.
(Jori Finkel, “Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History’s Sidelines,” NYTimes, 9-19-19, Updated 10-14-19)
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