Speed of Life

Bono joined David Remnick at the 2022 New Yorker Festival to talk about his new memoir, “Surrender.” “When I sang in U2, something got ahold of me,” Bono said. “And it made sense of me.” They discussed how the band almost ended because of the members’ religious faith, and how they navigated the Troubles as a bunch of young men from Dublin suddenly on the world stage. Bono shared a life lesson from Paul McCartney, and he opened up about the early death of his mother. “This wound in me just turned into this opening where I had to fill the hole with music,” Bono said. In the loss of a loved one, “there's sometimes a gift. The opening up of music came from my mother.”

もうすぐハロウィンということで、今年も江戸時代版ジャック・オー・ランタンをご紹介。歌川芳員が描いた「砂村の怨霊」というカボチャの妖怪です。砂村は現在の東京都江東区。カボチャの産地として知られていました。顔がカボチャの実。手足が葉と蔓でできているのにご注目。※現在展示していません。 pic.twitter.com/Q6DO7zS7HB — 太田記念美術館 Ota Memorial Museum of Art (@ukiyoeota) October 29, 2022 Halloween is coming up soon, so this year  the Ota Memorial Museum of Art shows us the Edo period version of the Jack-O-Lantern. It is a pumpkin monster called "Sunamura no Onryo" drawn by Yoshikazu Utagawa. Sunamura is present-day Koto Ward in Tokyo. It was known for producing pumpkins. The limbs are made of leaves and vines. 

We’ve come a long way, but the work isn’t done. Thanks for seeing us in Georgia, @BarackObama ! pic.twitter.com/XvGDmMqKq2 — Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) October 29, 2022 We deserve better, Georgia. And better is worth fighting for. Thank you President @BarackObama for reminding Georgians of our extraordinary power to change history and to make history. It’s time to get it done. pic.twitter.com/BaRG52XWZH — Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) October 29, 2022

To everyone celebrating the Festival of Lights here in the United States and around the world, happy Diwali! pic.twitter.com/0DPlOaqhMO — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) October 24, 2022 This Diwali, may we remember that from darkness there is power in the gathering of light. That the American story depends not on any one of us, but on all of us. To those celebrating and connecting with one another during this festival of lights: Happy Diwali. pic.twitter.com/yrByVDXAvr — President Biden (@POTUS) October 24, 2022 Happy Diwali! In honor of the beginning of the Hindu New Year, scholar Lakshika Senarath Gamage offered her perspective on the design, construction, and use of the spectacular bronze oil lamps in the Fowler’s collection. Watch the video to learn more! https://t.co/0UFnL7qcaQ — Fowler Museum @ UCLA (@FowlerMuseum) October 25, 2022

Quite a loss - My thoughts on Peter Schjeldahl from April 2005 Speed of Life: Peter Schjeldahl at SFMOMA https://t.co/1gKhLJMePZ pic.twitter.com/C6oO1Mm6h3 — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) October 21, 2022 In 2005, during the Q&A after a lecture at SFMOMA, I asked Peter Schjeldahl about the place of beauty in contemporary art. Peter leaned forward and spoke from the heart." This is an important, if not controversial, question that I write about often. In the 60s and 70s in academia it was the forbidden word. A group of art historians could look up at the blue sky and and declare it a beautiful day on their way to a conference on contemporary art. But once in the doors of the conference room, beauty ceased to exist." Peter concluded by stating, "Art does not have to address beauty- to reach for beauty. But it sure is great if it does."