“Her detailed, original research, empathy with the artists she wrote about and insight illuminated the subject. Her approach was both methodical and imaginative: she knew that this was precious historical material that needed to be gathered and recorded before it was lost; but Marion [Whybrow] knew how to tell a story, too, and how to pick out an anecdote that summed up a character.”
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The Bestselling Authors You’ve Never (Yet) Heard Of
On the fifth anniversary of the Kindle becoming available in the UK, “the result of authors choosing to go it alone is a new digital literary landscape where romance, erotica and science fiction reign supreme and people – rather than publishing houses – are deciding what sells.”
The Broad Museum’s Storage Vault Will Open (Some Of) The Unhung Collection To Visitors
“The vault was conceived as the heart of the $140-million museum. It allows the Broad to store or exhibit 99% of its nearly 2,000-object collection on-site, where it’s all surprisingly accessible to the staff. That’s a game-changer logistically for the museum, as planning exhibits and lending works to other institutions will be far easier, giving the collection more international play.”
Being An Irish Writer Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Anne Enright, who’s up for a second Booker Prize right now and is the first-ever laureate for Irish fiction: “Writers are never telling wonderful stories about Ireland, they’re telling interesting stories about Ireland, and Ireland doesn’t necessarily appreciate that. So for me to be accepted, for a female voice – with all the anxiety there is about the female voice in Ireland – for that somehow to dissolve, and this symbolic thing of the laureateship, is just lovely.”
Filling Forgotten Niches In The Book World, And Making Money Doing It
“New York Review Books, the publishing offshoot of the literary magazine The New York Review of Books, has made a specialty of rescuing and reviving all kinds of ignored or forgotten works in English or in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by writers renowned and obscure.”
Frank Gehry Is Focusing On The Water, Not Landmarks, For The L.A. River
“They came to see me and said they were heading up a committee for Mayor Garcetti and said we have this wonderful river, 51 miles, and that if we could brand it, give it visual coherence, it could become something special.”
Frank Gehry Is The Wrong Architect For The Revitalized Los Angeles River
“Not that he’s going to clad the entire 52 miles of river in hyper-reflective steel panels OH GOD PLEASE SAY NO. It’s just that Gehry’s work so rarely provides true public space and doesn’t show many gestures to the natural environment—both of which are the most important things the river will need to do.”
Dancers Who Age But Don’t Plan To Retire – Only To Change
“I was just theorizing that the only way performing will ever make sense is if I dance until I die. If I get a little done every year, at some point I’m going to be four generations older than the children dancing. Then, I think there will be a connection.”
The New CEO Of The Pittsburgh Symphony Has To Confront Attendance And Budget Issues
“Pittsburgh Symphony projects it will run another million-dollar-plus budget deficit this season, and has seen ticket sales fall to 50 percent for the classical subscription series and to 54 percent for the Pops. The symphony’s last balanced budgets were for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, before the financial sector meltdown.”
Why Do We Hate Tom Cruise, And Are We Just Deeply Wrong?
“From the beginning of his career, he’s been trying to get us to change our perception of him, but it never takes. How is the biggest movie star of the world hiding in plain sight? How do we all know his movies but we have no idea what’s happening in them? We picture them so wrong.”