“Drawing is a labour-intensive activity, yet the results have the lightest touch, to be subjective and impressionistic, to be chasing the fugitive moment. You have to come in close to a drawing to examine it properly, and the relationship is one-on-one.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Die, Suburban Scum! (Or At Least Suburban Housing Stock)
“Many fringe suburbs are turning into slums, with abandoned housing and rising crime.” (Of course, the writers have some suggestions to change this decline.)
Fashions For Shakespeare Bring Richard II Back To Life
Why is Richard II – one of the most beautiful but also most archaic of Shakespeare’s plays – suddenly all the rage again?
Lynn Margulis, 73, Evolutionary Biologist Who Explained Life
What exactly is life, and why do we die? Without biologist Lynn Margulis, we might never have known that the answer is sex.
Are You Copying That? Well, Fine. That’s What Artists Do
Novelist Charlie Fletcher: “I was swimming in the Musselburgh pool with Peggy Lee and Iggy Pop when I decided to steal Long John Silver.”
Taking A Literary Feud To The Next Level – The Courts
Book reviewing in Britain can be a dangerous art, thanks to libel laws. Now reviewer Pankaj Mishra may face a lawsuit from historian Niall Ferguson over whether Ferguson got an appropriate apology, and whether Ferguson’s work can be called racist.
Making ‘Supernatural’ Dance Theatre Requires A Lot Of Normal Hard Work
How does a husband and wife team adapt, write and choreograph an adaptation of the confusing Euripides play Alcestis? They use Yiddish silent films and videos of horse wranglers, of course.
Why Literary Author Colson Whitehead Turned To Zombies
“Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.”
Eagerly Camping Out In The Cold – For A Chance To Buy Art
Britons camped out, some for days, near the Royal College of Art in preparation for its £45 postcard art “secret” sale. (Hint: The “secret” part isn’t the fact of the sale.)
Political Tides Changing Art – And Delaying Museum Construction
“The affluent emirate of Abu Dhabi appears to be revising its cultural policy. The Arab spring has ushered in a shift in consciousness across the region; citizens are re-considering their rights while rulers watch their step.”