{"id":276,"date":"2014-05-09T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T17:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postmuseum.wordpress.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-05-09T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T17:52:39","slug":"no-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/2014\/05\/09\/no-country\/","title":{"rendered":"No Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guggenheim exhibition<\/a>, curated by June Yap, is\u00a0going to be\u00a0showing\u00a0in\u00a0CCA<\/a>\u00a0from 10 May to 20 July.\u00a0The exhibition “proposes a reevaluation of the region and its countries based on its cultural relationships, influences, affinities, and negotiations“. Exciting!<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out the calendar of events here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition’s\u00a0title\u00a0is apparently drawn from the opening line of the W. B. Yeats poem \u201cSailing to Byzantium\u201d (1928) that is referenced in the title of Cormac McCarthy\u2019s novel No Country for Old Men (2005).<\/p>\n

Here’s\u00a0the poem:<\/p>\n

Sailing To Byzantium<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is no country for old men. The young
\nIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees
\n\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Those dying generations\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0at their song,
\nThe salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
\nFish, flesh, or fowl commend all summer long
\nWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.
\nCaught in that sensual music all neglect
\nMonuments of unaging intellect.<\/p>\n

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
\nA tattered coat upon a stick, unless
\nSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
\nFor every tatter in its mortal dress,
\nNor is there singing school but studying
\nMonuments of its own magnificence;
\nAnd therefore I have sailed the seas and come
\nTo the holy city of Byzantium.<\/p>\n

O sages standing in God’s holy fire
\nAs in the gold mosaic of a wall,
\nCome from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
\nAnd be the singing-masters of my soul.
\nConsume my heart away; sick with desire
\nAnd fastened to a dying animal
\nIt knows not what it is; and gather me
\nInto the artifice of eternity.<\/p>\n

Once out of nature I shall never take
\nMy bodily form from any natural thing,
\nBut such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
\nOf hammered gold and gold enamelling
\nTo keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
\nOr set upon a golden bough to sing
\nTo lords and ladies of Byzantium
\nOf what is past, or passing, or to come.<\/p>\n

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The Guggenheim exhibition, curated by June Yap, is\u00a0going to be\u00a0showing\u00a0in\u00a0CCA\u00a0from 10 May to 20 July.\u00a0The exhibition “proposes a reevaluation of the region and its countries based on its cultural relationships, influences, affinities, and negotiations“. Exciting! Check out the calendar of events here. The exhibition’s\u00a0title\u00a0is apparently drawn from the opening line of the W. B. Yeats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[16,33,84],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-arts","category-singapore-arts","tag-16","tag-cca","tag-yeats","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parjs7-4s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}