Author and illustrator Allie Brosh: “I feel this moral responsibility to give as much as I get. But I don’t feel like I can do that with the people who comment on my posts; I can’t give them the level of interaction that they deserve, and that drives me nuts, not being able to listen as well as I can to all the people who want to interact.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The First Rule Of Jazz: Stand Up To The ‘Jazz Police’
Courtney Pine: “We can’t let these geezers keep trying to control what jazz is.”
How To Write 5000 Words A Day For (Approximately) $20 An Hour
“It isn’t particularly hard to write any of this because it’s already obvious how the writing should go. This type of writing is like driving a car to the airport; you already know how to get there, you just need to make sure you follow the rules and don’t crash along the way.”
British Parliament’s World Heritage Status Is At Risk Thanks To New Skyscrapers
How exactly did developers get the official go-ahead – with no public review – on huge schemes that may take away cultural status from Westminster and block views of Big Ben?
The Low-Key Ceremony That Became An Important Oscars Preview
The Governors Awards “now has a full-blown red-carpet walk and has evolved into a free-for-all campaign stop for those who want to be seen as candidates for the current round of Oscars, though almost no significant film awards or nominations have yet been conferred.”
Even J.J. Abrams, Now In Charge Of Star Trek *And* Star Wars, Thinks He Has Too Much Power
“I was insanely flattered, but felt like it was too much. … [But] it was such a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do something completely thrilling and wildly challenging.”
Lectures Never Worked, So Why Are We Addicted To Them (Instead Of, Say, Holodecks)?
“Go to Second Life and check out a classroom–and they’re exactly like they are in the real world. It’s strange, because this is a place you can move by teleporting, you can do whatever you want.”
Interview With An Art Hoarder: Cornelius Gurlitt Finally Speaks
“He spoke to his paintings. They were his friends, the loyal companions that didn’t exist in his real life. He considered it is his life’s mission to protect his father’s treasure, and over the decades he lost touch with reality”
If You Leave New York, You’d Better Hope You Feel Like Rebecca Wolff
Many writers who leave NY feel wistful nostalgia, but “Rebecca Wolff, a Manhattan native who now lives upstate, delivers an impassioned, highly entertaining diatribe that includes the line ‘New York is a giant sinking pile of crap compared to what it used to be.'”
Paris’ National Museum Of Modern Art Gets A New Director
The internal appointment of Bernard Blistène, the director of the cultural development department at the Pompidou, came as a surprise to some observers.