{"id":80051,"date":"2014-11-25T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=80051"},"modified":"2014-11-25T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:02:39","slug":"when-art-got-expensive-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/when-art-got-expensive-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"When Art Got Expensive, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_80053\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/retrato_de_juan_pareja_by_diego_velazquez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80053\" class=\"wp-image-80053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/retrato_de_juan_pareja_by_diego_velazquez.jpg\" alt=\"Retrato_de_Juan_Pareja,_by_Diego_Velazquez\" width=\"600\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, <i>Portrait of Juan de Pareja<\/i> (detail), 1650.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally available, after forty-one years: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/23\/books\/review\/gravitys-rainbow-read-by-george-guidall.html?ref=books&amp;_r=3\">Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/23\/books\/review\/gravitys-rainbow-read-by-george-guidall.html?ref=books&amp;_r=3\" target=\"_blank\">, the audiobook<\/a>. It comprises thirty CDs and is performed by a superhumanly patient soul named George Guidall. \u201cHow on earth, I wondered as I stripped the wrapper, is poor Mr. Guidall going to render the sudden outbreaks of crazed capitals, or librettos in which stoners with guitars pastiche Rossini, the instructions helpfully stating \u2018(<em>bubububoo[oo] oo [sung to opening of Beethoven 5th, with full band]<\/em>)\u2019? He turns out to do it in a slow and deep-voiced manner, beneath whose calm avuncularity you can detect anxiety, even mania, bubbling but never quite erupting.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>New York has fewer used bookstores than ever before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/11\/how-the-strand-keeps-going-in-the-age-of-amazon.html?mid=nymag_press\" target=\"_blank\">and yet the Strand continues to thrive<\/a>. How? It\u2019s certainly cheerier than it used to be, which doesn\u2019t hurt\u2014before it was renovated in 2003, it was pretty bleak. \u201cLike a lot of businesses that had hung on through the FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD years, it looked broken-down and patched-up. The bathroom was even dirtier than the one in the Astor Place subway<em>.<\/em> You got the feeling that a lot of books had been on the shelves for years. The ceiling was dark with the exhalations from a million Chesterfields. There were mice. People arriving with review copies to sell received an escort to the basement after a guard\u2019s bellow: \u2018Books to go down!\u2019&thinsp;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Meghan Daum on suffering: \u201c&thinsp;\u2018The culture is obsessed with the idea that if you go through a crisis, you\u2019re going to come out of it a better person,\u2019 Daum says, explaining her frustration with \u2018the pressure we put on people &#8230; to have epiphanies where suddenly it all makes sense.\u2019 This \u2018redemption pressure\u2019 is sentimentality\u2019s aggressive shadow, a way of forcing people in terrible situations to make us feel better about what they\u2019ve been through. But as she demonstrates in her essays, \u2018sometimes you don\u2019t learn anything. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/nov\/18\/meghan-daum-interview-golden-age-women-essayists\" target=\"_blank\">It is what it is, and there is no closure<\/a>.\u2019&thinsp;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On November 27, 1970, Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s <em>Portrait of Juan de Pareja <\/em>became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/arts\/arts-feature\/9375472\/the-story-of-the-first-painting-to-sell-for-over-a-million-pounds\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first painting to sell for more than a million pounds<\/a>. \u201cIt was finally knocked down for a staggering \u00a32,310,000, almost tripling the previous world auction record for a painting. Even the most hardened dealers sitting in the audience breathed gasps of disbelief. Then there was a spontaneous burst of applause. The auctioneer left his rostrum, the painting was hastily removed, and sheer pandemonium broke out.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A new service, Deathswitch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/11\/talking-to-the-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">allows you to communicate from beyond the grave<\/a>: \u201cSubscribers are prompted periodically via email to make sure they\u2019re still alive. When they fail to respond, Deathswitch starts firing off their predrafted notes to loved ones. The company now has thousands of users and effectively runs itself. Among the perks of a premium Deathswitch account is the ability to schedule emails for delivery far in the future: to wish your wife a happy fiftieth wedding anniversary, for example, thirty years after you left her a widow.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally available, after forty-one years: Gravity\u2019s Rainbow, the audiobook. 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