The designer Ron Arad has always had a lot of nerve, and it ricochets around his rambunctious, ultimately inconclusive retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art like an ammo belt’s worth of stray bullets. Sometimes the bullets hit, turning random targets into bull’s-eyes. More often they are wide of the mark, resulting in things that seem self-indulgent and frivolous. No wonder this show, which opens on Sunday and is the first major survey of Mr. Arad’s work in the United States, is titled “Ron Arad: No Discipline.

Roberta at once offers acclaim and stinging assessments, which might seem an apt appraisal of Ron Arad’s work, one he might even embrace. To wit, Vanity Fair was there as well, and says the exhibit “confirms Arad’s status as a design world punk rocker (see his own defacement of the exhibit’s wall text), and his is one of the most thrilling “rides” ever mounted at MoMA.”

Continuing our Dialogues with Design Legends series, Ron Arad will be here on Sep 17 in conversation with design historian Daniella Ohad Smith. And on Nov 3, Karim Rashid and Gaetano Pesce will continue the series.

Previously:

In the lead up to screenings at 92YTribeca’s Queer/Art/Film series, we asked a few questions of the presenters via email. One question asked of all them was: “The use of the term Queer seems wide reaching nowadays, not restricted to “gay” individuals. For instance, we have heard it used by heterosexual people who identify as Queer, which implies definitions aside from sexual. Do you agree? What does “Queer” mean to you?”

Filmmaker Jenny Livingston offered our favorite answer, saying in part:

Since the 90s, it’s been used by LGBT people to denote a difference that sparkles, people who set themselves apart, (in relation to gender identity and sexuality) because they don’t fit the norm. It’s important to know that fitting in, while not wrong, is certainly not the thing that makes you more lovable, more interesting, more human.

Continuing below, we collected the answers from all five interviewees and are reprinting them in full.

Dan Aykroyd has been receiving a flurry of press lately.  In Easthampton this weekend dining at Georgica, he caused a stir when he walked into the kitchen to joke with the chefs. He then made the rounds of other establishments, mixing drinks behind the bar and performing songs from the Blues Brothers. And yesterday, the New York Times ArtsBeat blog revisited Ghostbusters.

Hmm...is all this press leading up to something? There has been talk of a new Ghostbusters movie. The Guardian reported in May: “all the players have stated their intentions to go back, and a script is being written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg.”

Could a release date be far behind?? In the meantime, here is a clever re-imagining of Ghostbusters as it might have been made in 1954, as opposed to 1984.

And on Oct 25, Peter and Dan Aykroyd are here at 92Y for Ghosts and Other Creepy Things, discussing among other things, the delightful story that inspired Dan to make the mega-hit Ghostbusters.

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