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NST #1018: Kaos s01e04 (2024)

Whiteboard variants appear on the left side of a split-screen phone conversation in Kaos s01e04 (Netflix, 2024).

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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This will be the first retrospective of the pioneering artists' organisation Artist Placement Group, or APG, conceived by Barbara Steveni in 1965 and established a year later by Steveni and John Latham along with Barry Flanagan, David Hall, Anna Ridley and Jeffrey Shaw, among others.

Between 1966 and the turn of the eighties, APG negotiated approximately fifteen placements for artists lasting from a few weeks to several years; first within industries (often large corporations such as British Steel and ICI) and later within UK government departments such as the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Office. APG arranged that artists would work to an ‘open brief’, whereby their placements were not required to produce tangible results, but that the engagement itself could potentially benefit both host organisations as well as the artists in the long-term. Artists' work in proposing and carrying out placements will be represented here in diverse ways, in films, photographs, texts and correspondence and sometimes in art objects.

APG was a milestone in Conceptual Art in Britain, reinventing the means of making and disseminating art, and anticipating many of the issues facing cultural workers today. It represented itself in a number of exhibitions and events, notably in the exhibition Art and Economics at the Hayward Gallery in 1971 with artistic interventions by Garth Evans, Barry Flanagan, John Latham and others. Emulating APG's emphasis on the discursive, the exhibition will host frequent public discussions relating to art and social organisation.

The exhibition is curated by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury, in consultation with Barbara Steveni.

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Barry Hudek’s dissertation examines the ‘solitary furnace experience’ undergone by a character in Faulkner’s classic ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ Photo by Nathan Latil/Ole Miss Communications

This year’s Frances Bell McCool Fellowship Lecture in Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi examines connections between an iconic William Faulkner novel and the Biblical book of Daniel.

The lecture, titled “Thomas Sutpen’s ‘Solitary Furnace Experience’: The Book of Daniel in William Faulkner’s ‘Absalom, Absalom!'” is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday (May 4) in Bishop Hall, Room 112. Barry Hudek, a doctoral candidate in English, will present the talk based on his research.

Faulkner writes in “Absalom, Absalom!” that one of the main characters, Thomas Sutpen, undergoes a “solitary furnace experience,” Hudek said.

“When I first read the novel, I thought the phrase was strange, but I thought it might reference the ‘fiery furnace’ story in the Old Testament book of Daniel,” he explained.

The lecture will focus on the implications and meanings of that phrase and why the connection to the book of Daniel is important.

“The hardest part of the lecture is paring down 50 pages of material to 16 pages,” Hudek said. “But all of that fosters stronger work, so I am happy where the project currently is.”

The McCool Fellowship Lecture is delivered by a student studying Faulkner in his or her dissertation, coming in the final year of dissertation work, said Jay Watson, the university’s Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies. The lecture represents an important professional development opportunity for the fellowship recipient, he said.

“It is great practice to address the general public and not just a specialized audience of scholars,” Watson said. The purpose of scholarship, after all, is “not just to study and learn privately, but to create knowledge and to share knowledge.”

The endowment for the fellowship and lecture was established by Campbell McCool, a 1985 UM graduate, in honor of his mother, the late Frances Bell McCool. A 1959 Ole Miss graduate and one of the first recipients of the Robert M. Carrier Scholarship, she spent more than 30 years teaching high school mathematics in Jackson and New Orleans.

“We chose to establish a Faulkner scholarship in the English department and the writing program because we truly believe it is one of the areas where Ole Miss has a growing national reputation and can go head-to-head with any school,” McCool said in 2004, when the fellowship endowment was announced.

A native of Crest Hill, Illinois, Hudek said he is honored to be a McCool fellow. He is on track to receive his doctoral degree in August.

“What Barry is doing as the McCool fellow is part of what faculty, grad students and even undergraduate students are all doing at the university,” Watson said. “It’s a part of the mission of the university and it’s an important learning opportunity for the audience as well.”

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NST #992: The Strategists (2024)

The cover of Phillips Payson O’Brien’s The Strategists (2024) features a true classic use of string.

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #971: Trivago “Cheaper Hotels” ad (2024)

A true classic variant appears in a couple of forms in Trivago’s “Cheaper Hotels” ad (2024).

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #874: "Explainer" Saatva ad (2021)

A classic string board appears in an “Explainer” ad (2021) for Saatva mattresses.

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #867: "The ManningCast auditions go off the rails" (2023)

An ESPN promo video, “The ManningCast auditions go off the rails” (2023) features a classic string board throughout.

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #743: Jimmy John's, "Tony Bolognavich" ads (2022)

A 2022 series of Jimmy John’s ads, featuring “Tony Bolognavich” involves an elaborate room of string boards.

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #733: In the Dark s01e07-08 (2019)

A classic investigation board appears in season 1 of In the Dark (CW, 2019).

From contributors Barry and Patty Hudek.

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NST #683: Asha Rangappa, January 6 conspiracy explainer (2022)

A breaking NST entry—an explainer of the moving pieces of the January 6 conspriacy, as posted by Asha Rangappa on Twitter.

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #667: Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #5 (2009) & Fantastic Four #570 (2009)

Reed Richards tries to work things out over multiple walls (and the floor) during Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four run, including in Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #5 (Marvel, September 2009) and Fantastic Four #570 (Marvel, October 2009).

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #664: CBS Sunday Morning, "Mastering the Marvel Universe" (2022)

The world of Marvel comics is imagined as a web of connections in the 1 May 2022 CBS Sunday Morning piece on Douglas Wolk’s All the Marvels (2021), “Mastering the Marvel Unvierse.”

Though the piece does note the roles played by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Jack Kirby in consolidating and coordinating Marvel’s continuity, it does so using “POW! BOOM! WHAM!” language that is three, if not four, decades out of date…

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #603: Toby Keith, "Beer for My Horses" (2003)

The music video for Toby Keith’s “Beer for My Horses” (ft. Willie Nelson; 2003) features a chalk investigation board and string star on a map, as Nelson and Keith hone in on a killer.

From contributor Barry Hudek.

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NST #543: Japanese Breakfast, "Be Sweet" (2021)

The music video for Japenese Breakfast’s “Be Sweet” (2021), with homages to The X-Files [see NST #489], is full of string.

From contributor Barry Hudek. See the video here:

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One of the characters in the Rear Window-inspired music video for Belle & Sebastian’s “Poor Boy” (2018) has a nice wall and boards. Her apartment is the left-most on the second floor. Credit to contributor Barry Hudek for spotting this one. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pETHnjMzZjk