{"id":108723,"date":"2017-03-14T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108723"},"modified":"2017-03-14T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:09:58","slug":"carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Carry Your White Rag with Pride, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_108724\" style=\"width: 1826px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108724\" class=\"wp-image-108724 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c.jpg\" width=\"1816\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c.jpg 1816w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c-1024x757.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Neel, <i>Self Portrait<\/i> (detail), 1980.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing like a blizzard to get you thinking about death. As I write this, New York is being engulfed in snow, as one day all of us will be taken by the icy grip of eternal slumber. So let\u2019s look at how Alice Neel handled it, with a striking act of self-portraiture that, as Bridget Quinn writes, is unflinching in its gaze without losing any sympathy: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/alice-neel-how-to-persevere-and-live-the-artists-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">She lived long enough to capture one of the most knowing takes on aging ever made, up there with Rembrandt in its cold-eyed view of the sagging self<\/a>. Eighty years old in this painting, made in 1980, the master portraitist has turned her unsparing scrutiny upon her own still-formidable self. Her fluffy white grandma updo\u2014incongruous on a nude, to say the least\u2014rhymes with the bright white rag dangling from her left hand. Meant for dabbing paint, according to some commentators, the rag is also a flag of surrender. But surrender to what? I expect they mean surrender to aging and the decline of the flesh. But what about the fact that after five decades of dedicated portraiture, this was Neel\u2019s first real self-portrait? That after cajoling dozens of sitters\u2014men, women, and children\u2014to doff their duds, she at last joins them. She has surrendered to her own inspection at long last, there on the same blue-striped love seat upon which so many others sat for her. Here, finally, Neel sits for herself.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At last, courtesy of Eric Benson, we know what it\u2019s like to listen to Top 40\u00a0radio with Terrence Malick: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-culture\/the-not-so-secret-life-of-terrence-malick\/\" target=\"_blank\">He\u2019ll make these wild associations that really surprise me<\/a> \u2026 You\u2019ll hear him say something like, \u2018I just heard this Jason Derulo song, \u201cTalk Dirty.\u201d I haven\u2019t heard a love song like this before.\u2019 And you\u2019ll think to yourself, \u2018That\u2019s so weird, that\u2019s such a shitty pop song.\u2019 And then you\u2019ll listen to it again and you\u2019ll hear this Turkish lick, and you\u2019ll say, \u2018Actually, that seemingly innocuous pop song has something really cool to it.\u2019\u200a \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shahidha Bari appreciates the existentialists for any number of reasons, one of which is simply the brute fact of their charisma: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/women-swooned\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s true that existentialism isn\u2019t always \u2018easy,\u2019 but it helps that many of the existentialists themselves were irresistible<\/a>. As a young man, Sartre hurled water bombs from classroom windows, yelling, \u2018Thus pissed Zarathustra!\u2019 Simone de Beauvoir improvised elegant solutions to the straitened circumstances of life in Nazi-occupied Paris, wearing turbans when she could not secure a haircut, and sleeping in skiwear to save on heating. Albert Camus, who was investigated by the FBI at the request of J. Edgar Hoover (the file was mislabelled <small>CANUS<\/small>), could sit in the street in the snow, lamenting his love life, until two in the morning. He adored his cat, a creature blessed with the perfect moniker: \u2018Cigarette.\u2019 Tell me what\u2019s\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>to love about these existentialists.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Even if professional critics are someday a thing of the past, writes Alex Ross, we\u2019ll never be able to do without arbiters of culture: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-fate-of-the-critic-in-the-clickbait-age\" target=\"_blank\">The trouble is, once you accept the proposition that popularity corresponds to value, the game is over for the performing arts<\/a>. There is no longer any justification for giving space to classical music, jazz, dance, or any other artistic activity that fails to ignite mass enthusiasm. In a cultural-Darwinist world where only the buzziest survive, the arts section would consist solely of superhero-movie reviews, TV-show recaps, and instant-reaction think pieces about pop superstars. Never mind that such entities hardly need the publicity, having achieved market saturation through social media. It\u2019s the intellectual equivalent of a tax cut for the superrich.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>S. E. Hinton\u2019s novel <em>The Outsiders <\/em>turns fifty this month; Hayley Krischer pays the author a visit in Tulsa: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/12\/books\/the-outsiders-s-e-hinton-book.html?mtrref=getpocket.com&amp;gwh=F76261BB71B5BD6956A29181FA168864&amp;gwt=pay&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">When Ms. Hinton was sixteen, after failing creative writing in her junior year of high school, she wrote <em>The Outsiders<\/em><\/a>. The teacher who failed her was not happy that Ms. Hinton liked to mention this in every interview. She sold the book when she was seventeen. It was published when she turned eighteen. It has, quite literally, always been part of her life. For Ms. Hinton, the book is something of a time capsule of her own emotionally driven teenage angst. \u2018I think that\u2019s why it still resonates with teens, because they feel like that,\u2019 she said. \u2018Your feelings are over the top. You\u2019re feeling and seeing injustice, and you\u2019re standing up against it.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: Alice Neel stares down death, Terence Malick listens to the top forty, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8769,3783,1659,478,16586,2186,9111,27807,13808,67,27808,14092,27806,27809],"class_list":["post-108723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-aging","tag-albert-camus","tag-alice-neel","tag-criticism","tag-critics","tag-death","tag-existentialism","tag-jason-derulo","tag-painters","tag-painting","tag-s-e-hinton","tag-self-portraits","tag-terence-malick","tag-the-outsiders"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alice Neel and the Art of Self-Portraiture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: Alice Neel stares down death, Terence Malick listens to the top forty, and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carry Your White Rag with Pride, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 14, 2017 \u2013 In today\u2019s roundup: Alice Neel stares down death, Terence Malick listens to the top forty, and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-14T13:00:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-03-14T14:09:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1816\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1343\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\"},\"headline\":\"Carry Your White Rag with Pride, and Other News\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-14T13:00:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-14T14:09:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/\"},\"wordCount\":778,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/carry-your-white-rag-with-pride-and-other-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alice-neel-self-portrait-1980-oil-on-canvas-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-washington-d.c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"aging\",\"Albert Camus\",\"Alice Neel\",\"criticism\",\"critics\",\"death\",\"existentialism\",\"Jason Derulo\",\"painters\",\"painting\",\"S. 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