The book, A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, came from a rather literary place: It “grew out of a personal ad Juska placed in the New York Review of Books in 1999. Inspired by an Eric Rohmer film, Autumn Tale, it read: ‘Before I turn 67 – next March – I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.'”
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A Death-Obsessed Canadian Composer Who Died Young And Violently Gets A Moment Of Warmth And Performance
“The Canadian composer Claude Vivier should be the great downer of modern music. But so shimmering are Vivier’s drones, so sweetly childlike his invented languages and mystical geographies, so energetic his need to communicate his cravings and insecurities, that the effect is one of warmth rather than dread.”
One Hundred And Fifty Writers Later, This Guy Has Some Carefully Distilled Advice
First of all, writers, you really are not going to clean the house. Don’t do it. Stop it. “If you’re not making the time to write, no other advice can help you.”
From Broke Alt-Rock Guitarist To In-Demand Hollywood Composer
Tyler Bates, who has scored both Guardians of the Galaxy movies and a whole lot more, says, “The thing I love about film is — as nerve-racking as it is because it’s not like they give me a locked picture to score — it’s frenetic and a triathlon, but when you work with geniuses and studios that have massive investments in a property, you know what it’s like to be alive. You are running alongside failure, everyday, all the time.”
Police And Prosecutors Seize An Ancient Limestone Relief At The European Fine Art Fair In Park Slope
Friday around 2 p.m., “cursing could be heard coming from a London dealer’s booth, breaking the quiet, reverential atmosphere. To the consternation of several art dealers looking on, the police and prosecutors seized an ancient limestone bas-relief of a Persian soldier with shield and spear, which once adorned a building in the ruins of Persepolis in Iran, according to a search warrant.”
Charges Of Animal Cruelty For An Art Installation With Live Mice
It’s not just those afraid of mice who are being tortured in this installation, say mouse experts: “There are 70 white mice in individual boxes set like tiles on the floor of a gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In clear plexiglass cages, designed to be stepped upon, they peer up underfoot in an exhibition exploring phobia.”
Linda Nochlin, The Trailblazing Feminist Art Historian Whose 1971 Essay Changed The Discipline, Has Died At 86
The article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” – which argued quite clearly against the canon as well as against male-dominated notions of greatness – “would have been enough to secure her place as one of art history’s most important writers, but over the course of her six-decade career, she also made formidable contributions to the study of Realism and Gustav Courbet, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and numerous contemporary artists.”
The Next Thing In Public Transit: Retro Metro Cards With Art By Barbara Kruger
The themes will be similar to anyone who has followed the artist’s work. “‘These issues of power and control and physical damage and death and predation are ages old,’ Ms. Kruger said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. ‘I wish some of these issues would become archaic.'”
The End Of ‘American Idol,’ And The Dream Of Unity It Once Represented
In the context of Kelly Clarkson, the inaugural winner of the show, and her new album – which is both lightly political and aimed at a casual pop listener – we can see the end of whatever unity the country was thought to possess, musically and otherwise, in 2002.
Brooklyn Has A Newish ‘Bone-Breaking Dance Scene’ Inspired By Jamaica [VIDEO]
“When we’re in a dance battle, it’s really like a battle – it’s a way for people to let their emotions out,” says one contestant in the ever-evolving subculture.