“Morris’s sentences are like a roller coaster; he has the timing of a born comedian and a camp, expressive delivery that means he lurches from word to word, placing the emphasis very firmly where he wants it. He is a natural performer –who has, one suspects, an opinion on everything, though as the years have passed, he has grown more discreet about sharing them.”
Tag: 03.30.10
Seeing Through The Eyes Of Mark Rothko
“While most people who looked at his art saw blues and greens, tangerine orange and saffron yellow, crimson and jet black, he felt he’d encapsulated ‘the artist’s eternal interest in the human figure, character and emotions.’ … When he found observers weeping in front of them, he would deem his works successful.”
Where Pina Bausch Learned About Relationships
“But you know my parents had a restaurant, I was always in it. It was a neighbourhood restaurant, not like an elegant restaurant – but a place where life happens, and couples have love affairs and fights. Many people, I saw many people there, I don’t have to look at my parents.” (from an extended 2001 interview)
The Delicious Badness Of Cinema’s Author Villains
“Every so often … filmmakers tell us what they really think about those perverse souls who cling to the fusty old medium of print — namely that they’re pretentious, manipulative, insecure and overly fond of the sauce. And, you know what? They’ve got a point, one we’d like to see them make more often.”
Charles Ryskamp, Who Directed Morgan, Frick, Dies at 81
Appointed director of the Morgan Library in 1969, he “made a number of highly important acquisitions” and “extended its reach in several areas, notably music and children’s literature. In 1987, Mr. Ryskamp became director of the Frick, where he was an animating presence, increasing the number of exhibitions and broadening their scope.”
And The First Winner Of The Ted Hughes Poetry Award Is –
“The inaugural Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry, founded by [UK poet laureate] Carol Ann Duffy, has gone to Alice Oswald, a nature poet who writes ‘very much in the tradition’ of Hughes’.”
2000-Year-Old Ceiling Collapses At Nero’s Golden Palace
“A ceiling portion of Nero’s Golden Palace in Rome collapsed Tuesday, raising concerns once again that one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions faces dangerous erosion and other structural problems.”
Leonardo Vs. Michelangelo: The Florentine Smackdown
“We might think it absurd to look at such supreme human treasures and ask which artist is best – but that was what the Florentine republic tried to establish, by getting them to work at public expense on competitive battle paintings, Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari and Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina, for the Great Council Hall of the civic palace.”
French Publishers Intend To Sue Google Over Scanning
“French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand said at a press conference today (30th March) that he understood publishers’ and authors’ exasperation over ‘certain practices (by Google) that remain’. But he added that he would not act to defuse the situation because it was a question of private law.”
Are Artists Forgotten In The Arts’ Economic Argument?
When NEA chief Rocco Landesman came to town, no one “mentioned the absence of direct federal support for artists” or “brought up the dissolution of Pennsylvania’s individual artist fellowships.” As one local artist put it later: “It seems that culture and art are important as long as they redevelop neighborhoods or have some quantifiable measure.”